christ stop at eboli be one of the best movie by rossi and loyal to his tradition of neorealism . the movie depict isolated rural peasant life a an account of an urban intellectual doctor and painter and a political activist who have be exile to this remote area due to his political dissent during the fascist rule in italy . not like similar movie in lenght and crist stop at eboli constantly absorbs audience and probably due to it realist description and selective representation of peasant life which be freeze in time . the film push the audience to contemplate on philosophical aspect of the concept of time and it be heavily imbue with the display of social and political problem . rosi beautifully describe the destitute of the peasant settler of this remote and isolated land and their ignorance and apolitical life and the deep rift between these people and state and and the irrelevance of the quasi comic victory of the il duce to these people among many other social and political issue . like rosi other movie here again neorealist representation go along with the combination of documentary technique and fictional context . rosi let the image to speak for themselves rather than the gian maria volente who be in the central role in the movie . in the movie ( a it be in the book ) and the peasant life and urbanity be represent a two alien civilization and antithesis of each other . these peasant have their own way of life and own custom and own aspiration and mean of joy . what be go on rome or the war in abyssinia for regain the glory of the rome do not capture their interest . they be aware of the state through the tax collect or men call for military service . in his letter and levi describe the urban civilization a an antithesis of this peasant life which aspire throughout the history to colonize it . the christ stop at eboli also push the audience to ponder on the philosophical meaning of history and it relevance nature and meaning . it describe this peasant life a frozen in history and cut from outside life and lack the understanding of time that we have . history a we understand be the history of urban civilization . a peasant be alien to this civilization they be alien to this concept of time a well . in the village you stop count day and hour a they become more and more irrelevant and there you return and base your life on the natural cycle of life which be base on season . in this sense the movie challenge our notion of history which be the history of the city . in this sense christ stop at eboli be very analogous to y. k. karaosmano and # 287 while lu yaban . yaban be also the story of a turkish intellectual war veteran who abandon amenity of istanbul for the central anatolian village with the hope of find his root and alleviate the torment of his memoir . however and to his disappointment he find himself in an alien peasant civilization where he can not communicate to those people and can not be similar to them and can not understand their aspiration . what make yaban and christ stop at eboli similar be their approach to dichotomous nature of human civilization and the concept of time . in both novel there be a representation of antagonist peasant and urban civilization and and a relative concept of time . in both novel there be description of life which be freeze in time and alien to urbanity . indeed the study of yaban from this perspective can be insightful for the discussion of continuity and change in the history of mediterranean and a turkey be widely exclude from such study . however when you read christ stop at eboli and yaban what strike you first be the pattern of similarity in peasant life and experience of the intellectual visit these place . they can back both the universality of two civilization argument and lounge duree approach in the mediterranean area .