Every time you start a movie or a TV series, which you decide to enter a room you should always have full consciousness of what you are doing. Thinking of seeing Buen Camino judging him with the same look you look at Bugonia would be madness. Each movie is a different product, which addresses a different audience and if you look both you need to change your look at things.
Buen Camino di Luca Medici e Gennaro Nunziante is the return after 5 years of the character of Checco Zalone, who is no longer that of the origins, but always remains the same man who speaks for phrases made, knows few things and in a completely superficial way. Watching Buen Camino is a bit of taking a walk on Facebook after abandoning it to move on Instagram or Tik Tok. A film made for fathers, parents, adults who met Zalone in Zelig and aged with him and today have other problems than those of 20 years ago.
During the presentation to the press Luca Medici wondered what could be the reaction of the youngest to his film, underlining how many boys discovered it through social media where fragments of his jokes are found, while they will have to try to keep the attention for 90 minutes. The problem, however, to want to reason about this aspect is that the film of Checco Zalone does not speak to those young people, despite using the perspective of the daughter to tell all the film. But that girl who closes social media (but then we meet that she is making a video in which she tells the holiday, but to use it where?), who rejects the paternal wealth to seek a different life, seems to have little to do with the young people of today who chase the myth of success, of the impossible beauty propagated by influencers to hits of adv.
Luca Medici, however, scientifically deceives his audience. It features a perfect character for social memes as they were in the past. This time, however, he is no longer a climber but one already arrived, a rich nothing that is happening with the money of his father and bears wealth in an unfaithful and excessive way. The world of the daughter and the former wife, a model interpreted by Martina Colombari who cohabits with a Palestinian writer/dramaturgist who embodies the typical sinister, those radical chic transformed into an insult by today’s rulers, is its exact opposite. But it is not Checco’s life to be the winning one, because he is one man, exploited and blew by all as he will discover over time. And in a frantic and sudden final, Checco will understand what is the true sense of life, disassembling all that myth of a certain type of Italians.
Buen Camino is a family film that can help you understand how contemporary social ostentation is only a simulacrum of reality. But at the same time it is a harmless film for those who remember the Corruptive Checco Zalone of a time. The politically incorrect jokes that everyone speaks of are necessary not to lose the soul of the character it represents, but they are nothing but games of superficial words or references, which are also too “explained” deposing the laughter. You can joke about everything but not just mention taboo arguments to become politically incorrect.
In the end Buen Camino is a simple comedy like so many others, with an immediate comedy and belly, with those that in social videos the younger ones would call “dad jokes” jokes from dad, a comedy from Facebook that gathers under the comments of the outraged to the cry of “oh my god that scandal how little culture” and of the supporters who answer with that “you can no longer say anything” that has brought the whole world to the right. But Luca Medici’s skill is to make fun of that audience who laughs at his jokes by underlining his mediocrity and showing him how in the fiction Checco Zalone can change, in reality they remain equal. And focusing on the inability to go beyond the first superficial reading Checco Zalone will save the cinema. Once again.
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