Accatone is me !!! Explained !!!

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Reggie Pepperz

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Righthoho below is the review of Accattone - Interestingly Moz casts himself in the song as a kind of Accattone, an emotinally hardened and deadend person who shirks physical work, indeed shirks the emotional work needed to perpetuate healthy relationships. Not incapble of pity as long as its for self, a sociopath with the gift of the gab, hmmm.

I think I'll try and get a hold of this one!

Accattone
Italy - 1961
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Vittorio Accattone (Franco Citti) is a hardened pimp in Rome who works very hard at never working. He is a smooth talker, capable of only brief flashes of compassion, mostly for himself. When he loses his prize prostitute, Maddelena (Silvana Corsini), he despairs not for her but for his lost income. Nearly starving, he turns to his ex-wife and child for support, who soon find that he has not changed his ways. It is the lovely Stella (Franca Pasut), a peasant girl, who Vittorio falls in love with and is almost willing to change for.

This is writer/director Pier Paolo Pasolini's first film. In Accattone Pasolini provides us with a glimpse into a very different "cafe society", that of lazy, bored young men who avoid life's responsibilities in an economically depressed culture. The street scenes of 1960 Rome and Lazio are made fascinating by the people, most of whom appear to be non-actors. We felt transfixed by the images and by the haunting musical score of Johann Sebastian Bach (under the musical direction of Carlo Rustichelli).

So there you have it, a
 
Someone asked me to credit the review to the relevant source

http://www.1worldfilms.com/accatone.htm
 
Ah Larry I usually ignore you posts so that explains my apparent slip

And to be honest can you blame me? can you lame me? can you blame ME?
 
My spelling is really poor today !

It really is a disgrace!
 
i ALWAYS ignore yours, Reg, but the name "Accatone" caught my eye.
 
But...

... Moz compares himself to Pasolini, the great artist, while the subject of the song he addresses is Accatone, the lazy cafe dweller squandering his life.

Hmmmm, I never realised it was about Johnny Marr before!

Thanks for that!
 
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