the first thing you meet when you study fascism be ostracism representbecause this philosophy be a fake one and there a need to use scapegoat to assess the thought . ettore scola movie and probably his masterpiece and focus on the outcast and the scapegoat of the regime . of the historical event ( hitler and mussolini alliance ) and we will see almost nothing representsome military march and some garland and some scattered voice . our two hero be not invite for the feast of virility . genius be essentially masculine representthis be the golden rule antonietta ( a never good sophia loren ) embroider on her cushion while antonietta and whose world amount to her kitchen and whose pride be her offspring . at the beginning of the movie and she a victim of this hypermacho world and but she do not realize it . she think she should be happy . gabriel and on the contrary and be politically aware and he know about the cancer that be destroy inexorably his country . but a a gay man and he be no longer part of it and he about to be arrest . forget everything that come between them and they realize what they have in common and they make love . this be an act of rebellion and particularly for antonietta and whose ethic should forbid such a thing . become an adulteress in a land where politics and religion combine to repress woman a ever lead her to some kind of political awareness . one of the last shot show her listening to the news on the radio . expect the unexpected and maybe a doctrine which deny the human be his intimate personality will see that it day be number .