Napoli It makes you lose track of time. Especially at the height of an inordinate wait.
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Thirty-three years passed, to be able to write three. The perfect number, like a third title.
A suspension destined to overlap with the eternal expectations that the city lives by. This is what the documentary di Joseph Sansonna "Napoli, the beautiful day”, broadcast on Sunday 4 June at 22.00pm on Rai 5.
He's been waiting forever, Napoli.May Eduardo's night truly pass, giving way to the long-awaited beautiful day of Raffaele La Capria.
That the Vesuvio forget that you are a volcano, resigning yourself to remaining only the background of a postcard. May even the sweet and bitter spell of Maradona.
Last victorious viceroy, Neapolitan from Argentina, toxic love too close to certain Neapolitan entrails. A memory so cumbersome that it manages to hold the citizen's imagination hostage.
With his recent death, and his definitive transfiguration into myth, El pibe de oro seems determined to bring Naples back to its rightful place: in Heaven.
For the first time in forty years of modern football, a club that pays attention to its accounts wins the championship, without signing bankrupt bills, but actually earning at least fifty million. And without having its back covered by an industrial giant, a multinational, an international fund, a magnate or a patron.
“Naples, the beautiful day”: the documentary on Rai 5
Among those interviewed: political philosophers, photographers, men of science and letters, refined football fans, art historians, actors and directors, as well as the Rector Emeritus of Federico II.
The blue team has killed the championship from the beginning, creating an abyss between itself and its historic rivals from the North and the Capital. The superstitious city par excellence seems forced into yet another paradox in its history.
To deck out their flags, months in advance of the final gong. To wait for an ever closer victory, gradually giving in to the temptations of the party.
Almost to the point of actually turning into a permanent musical, indulging in the most abused image the world has of it. Since the seventeenth century, the city has burst with life, and death. Overpopulated and dangerous, desperate and vital.
The darkness, blinding as the light. Since then, the Neapolitan people have taken care of the anonymous remains. Glimpsing imploring glances, in the empty eye sockets of the skulls.
Brothers from another world, in which to mirror themselves. They too are at loggerheads with life, even on the other side, eternally waiting for a paradise.
Article published on 3 June 2023 - 09:51
