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Directed by Roberto Rossellini
Socrate
A bleak, grounded drama.
A false accusation leads the philosopher Socrates to trial and condemnation in 4th century BC Athens.
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the dark ambient music which underscores these late rossellini history films gives them a gothic background that contrasts with the vocal discourses of these great thinkers, as if we are hearing in regular intervals the insistence of death knocking on their doors, and how that presence is then embattled by living according to one's beliefs and thus becoming an immortal example to those of the future. the christ-principle existed before christ himself and socrates was certainly a part of that, the man who redeems humanity in his embrace of martyrdom.
Manages to articulate its punctual, intelligent dramatic structure with its more discursive, dialectical dimension, conducted with a script that is surely a consistent vessel for exemplifying socratic maieutics. For a film made in a post-fascist democracy, it's obvious that Rossellini's main question here is: what's the use of a democracy filled with undemocratic minds? If totalitarianism lies within every power struggle, the only way of moving beyond it is by humility and martyrdom, idealism must bring us closer to the truth and only then we will be able to move on.
A false accusation leads the philosopher Socrates to trial and condemnation in fourth-century BC Athens.
Roberto Rossellini directed Socrates in 1971 as part of his educational historical film series.
