I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.
My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.
I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.
favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.
The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.