拿坡里少年自拍日记

"Selfie" is a peculiar record of the case of Davide Bifolco, a 16-year-old who was shot dead by a carabiniere in the Neapolitan district of Traiano. To understand a neighborhood often depicted as a ghetto and a stronghold of the"Camorra," director Agostino Ferrente seeks out Davide's friends and meets Pietro and Alessandro. In the film's introduction, he is heard asking off-camera,"tell me about your friendship," which reveals his approach to this consistently collaborative documentary-fiction project. Equipping the boys with a mobile phone and a microphone, he asks them to document their everyday lives as a"selfie" film, whether they are riding a scooter, at the beach, hanging out with friends, or on the toilet. This turns out to be the perfect format in an age where self-dramatization often becomes a product. The result is an impressive collage, both visually and in the film's audiotrack, about adolescence; about lives where your background determines your future; about state despotism; about anger and grief, but above all about a tender boyhood friendship in a male world in which toughness reigns.