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 Loro (Them, in Italian) is a 2018 movie in two parts by Production Posse Paolo Sorrentino (director) and Toni Servillo (main actor) about a moment (more or less 2 years but it’s unclear) in the tumultuous life of Silvio Berlusconi (never named directly). The title refers to all the businessmen, politicians, courtiers and fixers who gravitates the man himself and try to profit in his halo.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Act 1 centers around Sergio Morra (Riccardo Scamarcio) a small entrepreneur from Taranto, who attempts to make it big in Rome trying to grab some large public bid by bribing some politician. Having met Kira, who knows Berlusconi directly he rents a large summer villa in Sardinia across Berlusconi's property and hires numerous escorts trying to get his attention. In the meanwhile we see Berlusconi, no longer at the government nor involved in his companies, bored in his huge villa with his almost-estranged wife, trying to reconcile his failing marriage.In Act 2, Berlusconi is again at the center of the stage, as he tries to bribe some senators to bring down the center-left government in charge and go to new elections. As his wife go to Cambodia on a trip, he agrees to Sergio request to organize a party in his villa, but while the party is apparently a success, it leads to nothing for Sergio’s ambitions and Berlusconi is only interested in a very young girl, Stella, that doesn’t reciprocate his attention.Berlusconi is again prime minister and has to deal with the aftermath of L’Aquila earthquake and an increasingly unstable coalition, as more details of his dissoluted lifestyle come to light and he is faced with increasingly unbearable political scandals. When his wife comes back from Cambodia she asks for a divorce. The movie ends with a long sequence of firefighters in L’Aquila recovering a huge statue of Jesus after a night’s work.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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 No Celebrities Were Harmed: zig-zagged, given the events depicted are only 10 years old (more or less) and almost all protagonists are alive and many still politically active the director use pseudonyms. Among the exceptions are Mike Bongiorno (who died in 2009), Mariano Apicella, Berlusconi himself, Ennio Doris, Fedele Confalonieri and Veronica, Berlusconi's wife, who is the very much real Veronica Lario. as a rule of thumb, the more controversial portraits have their names changed.
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 Author Tract: the long shot of firefighters extracting a Christ Statue from the rubble in the end is not dissimilar to the ending shot of The Great beauty, being a long, mute sequence without comment. There is also, like in every movie by Sorrentino, at least a pair of dancing parties with lots of people, dancers, music and drugs.
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 Production Posse: Paolo Sorrentino works again with Toni Servillo after The Great Beauty, Il Divo.
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 Alternate Character Interpretation: what are we expected to take from the portrayal of Berlusconi? even if Sorrentino and Servillo don’t pull any punches and particularly in Act 1 the representation of Berlusconi and his “court” are highly parodic, verging on grotesque, in Act 2 we see Berlusconi more closely and it is a flawed man whose story mixes element of ridicule and of tragedy, faced with loneliness, the passage of time and the dynamics of power. is Kira really in love with Berlusconi, after all?. What did Stella do with the man in the sauna is up to speculation. This cast a different light in the scene with Berlusconi later. Is she really "innocent" and thrown in a world of pimps and sharks or is she embarassed of what she's done earlier?
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