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Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

	Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
	by Warner Home Video Sales Rank: 39155 Price: $59.99

Bernardo Bertolucci entered the 80's with this low-key offering, a tale of an industrialist father whose son is kidnapped by members of the terrorist left and held for ransom. An air of melancholy permeates the whole picture as not only does the father have to pay the ransom, but he may also have to sell off his cheese factory to do so. <p>'Tragedy Of A Ridiculous Man' however is not that easy to digest on first viewing. It dramatizes a period of recent Italian history (terrorist kidnappings of the 70's) and if you're not particularly au fait with this history then the background to the film becomes a little difficult to comprehend. The political sympathies of the film are not as clear cut as in other Bertolucci films such as 'Before The Revolution' and '1900'. The main character is a factory owner who also feels enormous sympathy for his workers. At some points in the film you sense that the people of the factory are his true family as he seemed to have received little love from his wife and son. The idea then of selling his factory to pay for his son's ransom becomes the central dilemma of the film. What does he care most about, his son's life or the economic well-being of his workers. Primo wants to believe that his son is dead because this takes away the difficulty of deciding. I think he also suspects that his son was in kahoots with the kidnappers and wanted to test his father's devotion to his workers. *Viewer Reviews* Face yourself with this dilemma Would you sell your most beloved life project to raise the ransom money of your kidnapped son by a terrorist gang?. Or perhaps you would assume he has been murdered from the first day?. Bernardo Bertolucci somehow returns with this picture to his first stage of bitter gaza about the society (Remember La strategia del ragno The spider' s strategy or Il conformista , The conformist) in the late sixties and early seventies. Pitifully the resolution plot is far to be satisfactory. But still Tonazzi won the coveted Prize as Best Actor in 1982 by this role. And that' s a good point to its favor. Back To Top
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