Nov 27 2007
Should a film about the mafia be banned from television?
On Monday, November 26th, the Italian Justice Minister Clemente Mastella requested the withdrawal from television of a fictional work about the life of Mafia leader Toto Riina, considering that the directors made a hero of him.
Michelle Serra ponders the polemic between the minister and Canale 5, the private channel that programmed the film, ‘”Is depicting the mafia, and depicting it rather well as in the Canale 5 fiction, ‘The Boss of Bosses’, incitement to follow in his foot steps?
This, to a certain degree, is what the Minister of Justice believes by ordering its suspension.
His is a minority voice, but not at all isolated preceded by that of a magistrate and those of several Sicilian mayors.
… In view of the mafia’s current state of health, it is less a question of portraying the evil, than of having failed to portray it enough, out of convenience, complicity, or laziness.”
Should a film about the mafia be banned from television? – La Repubblica (Italy) 27/11/2007 – http://europe.courrierinternational.com/eurotopics/article.asp?langue=uk&publication=27/11/2007&cat=MEDIA&pi=0
