someone on these board have predicate that the whole thing be be dream by the best friend of the protagonist and albeit a friend he hasn not see for some 20 year . i be reluctant to dismiss this out of hand but it do raise some viable question . why would a telephone engineer or a shoe salesman or butcher for that matter want to create a mythical world and weave it around a friend populate it in the process with a set of equally mythical support character . with an imagination that good the friend should be write not dream . dream or not someone and and the obvious candidate be director paolo sorrentino and have create a very watchable world in which tony servillo make stillness a fine art . we be ask to believe that forty something titta la girolomo ( servillo ) upset the mafia some year prior to our meeting him and a penance he be a virtual prisoner in a small swiss hotel from which each week he drive to a local bank with a suitcase contain nine mill large in used note . other than this weekly trip he be free to do a he like and what he like to do be smoke and play card with a man who cheat and a wife who remind the husband how far they have fall socially and and ignore the friendly overture of olivia magnani and who have spend two year try to get a smile and or or a good evening out of him . for reason best know to himself and which be inconsistent with a man who have no interest in anything or anyone and servillo spend a certain amount of time every day apply a stethoscope to the wall of his bedroom and listening to the private conversation of his card play partner . eventually he do respond to magnani he have to do so or they would be no film . this be plot 6f represent the one about destry and who never wear a gun and or sean ( duke wayne ) and the quiet man who refuse to rise to provocation and fight until the obligatory scene where the gun be strap on and the fist cock but instead of content himself with a polite come stai oggi he remove 100 and 000 from the suitcase and buy her a car . the final inconsistency occur when magnani tell him she will pick him up the following day at 4 pm in her car and they will drive into the mountain to celebrate his birthday . we have establish that she live locally so why she be then see drive from somewhere mile away and ignore a police roadblock to drive off the road and overturn the car be anyone guess . this inconsistencies apart this remain a fine piece of film make with an excellent lead performance and a very good support one .