Carlo Bonini - Renato Vallanzasca
The Flower of Evil
Tropea
The first shots were heard in September at the Venice Film Festival, Michele Placido when he presented his film Vallanzasca. The director defended himself by saying that the shots pluriergastolano had not been treated like a hero, indeed. Now the Northern League has detonated his bomb asking for a boycott of the film.
Placido, so that the bulletproof vest, that he had not expected.
But go back in time. In 1999 he published the book
Vallanzasca Renato - The Flower of Evil , which was taken out of the screenplay. In fact it is a
long interview with Carlo Bonini Renato Vallanzasca. In 2010 it was reissued with the change of the preface. The beautiful Rene is now aged eleven, has 60 members, and certainly sees things differently since 1999.
Reading it one gets the impression to go through a novel, a film where the protagonist tells his life in a Gascon, but not mocking. The myth of the bandit spoils girls, the man with his own personal honor, a lover of fine clothes and nice cars will be fulfilled. There is a slice of 70s underworld of Milan.
Some things struck me. In the new preface
Vallanzasca states that hospitalized a few years ago, the neighborhood children Comasina present themselves at the foot of the bed are proud to know the famous boss. But he said peremptorily:
Do not bullshit, guys. Think of study, or even to work, because these are the only alternatives to avoid a future full of unfortunate mishaps. I do not feel very smart.
After nearly forty years in prison could not tell the truth about himself.
Bonini said after the preface:
Renato Vallanzasca has never repented, nor dissociated. He never asked for forgiveness. continued to think over the years that the private feeling of his victims were in their exclusive availability and went met by a dignified silence. That his went extinct due to the prison.
I think it is always difficult and inappropriate words to ask forgiveness for your transgressions.
One thing has, however, regretted that it had commenced in jail hunting infamy, that the informer or regretted it.