this work be epic and but i wouldn not call it sweep . it very ethnocentric to italy and and it a tragically present and work very much a a type of document of life . it follow two brother and who both take different path and follow the progression of italy through the late half of the 20th centuary . you feel the passage of time as well a a type of detached character development and but i wouldn not say that we really get inside the character head . we meet a lot of great support character and but the film be mainly jump around from key point in people life . it all very good stuff . but the big complaint to voice would be the lack of general thematic focus and and the fact that the majority of the good material in the story be tell in the first half and the second and while still good and really doesn not work a compelling stuff . it still good and but you feel like the good year have pass . this isn not the grand story of life and but it be the story of some people in italy and and it not the definitive story but it definitely worth your time and if you be interest in the subject matter .