The Catholic School

As an Italian, it’s hard to accept that such an important and tragic story is told this way. The film spends over an hour focusing on family and school dynamics that have little to do with the Circeo massacre, pushing the actual event to the background. It ends up feeling unfocused and, at times, disrespectful.

The direction is the only thing that really stands out, visually well-crafted and polished, but it’s not enough to justify such an unbalanced approach.

[Netflix] It is understood that the director diffuses some important questions about the attackers, more political, to refer to the very root of a sexist education that justifies violence. But although he establishes two parallel situations that end in different ways, arguing that this education does not contaminate everyone equally, his claim to undertake a collective portrait instead of focusing on the perpetrators, leaving the victims as simple subjects of the violence without interest in portraying them too, ends up having catastrophic consequences for a narrative that disperses without ever coming into focus.

The acting was good but the story just didn't progress in way that made much sense. Also character development was lacking, and after reaching the climax you realize most of them were just filler. It could have been a decent movie, but it failed to materialize.