Orsini at Giffoni, you really don’t understand what he’s doing with it

Dear Gubitosi, what does it mean? Your words echo a noisy mirror scramble. What would be the “very interesting notions”, As the Twitter account of the review specified in a series of defense attempts against the wave of indignation, that this Orsini should pass on to the boys? On a topic like this huge, complicated, divisive like the invasion of Ukraine for example, it would not have been more sensible to organize a choral meeting rather than one one man show in the midst of teenagers? As always, then, the central problem of these invitations lies not so much in the bad consequences that the speaker may have on the few present – it is hoped to be able to recover them from more rational opinions – but in theinvestiture that is provided to him. Since the seventies Giffoni has been synonymous with attention to young people and content tailored to them: the words and positions of that professor they are by no means content tailored to them. You don’t need to be its founders to understand that Orsini is out of place: he was even a A clean sweep oa White paperlet alone the main European film festival for children, which perhaps went a little further in its ambitions.

The best-case scenario is that the organization has committed a big mistake not only with respect to the person (or rather, to his / her opinions) but above all with regard to the way in which such an issue should be addressed, but who does not want to retrace his steps. Among other things, it Orsini style – which is one with its contents, one substantiates the other – is excessively melodramatic and poorly supported by concrete data. Really theapproach less suitable as possible for an audience of young participants. The worst case scenario, however, is that Orsini, as happens on TV, was invited to produce exactly these consequences: a useful picklock to gain some visibility. Did the Giffoni Film Festival, with many years of experience behind it, really have no way of handling the matter a little better? What a disappointment.