Upon viewing all of the movies in Foreign Film: Italian Cinema, I found that the vast majority of the children are more intelligent than the adults in the movies. For example, in Rome: Open City, Marcello is so very young but he is a part of the resistance, or at least what I would call a mini-resistance. Marcello even helps his children's group of resistance in setting a bomb. His mother Pina also, instead of going herself, sends Marcello on an errand to retrieve Don Pietro, the priest of St. Yelena, who is part of the resistance as well. In the end, Don Pietro is executed while Marcello and other children are looking on.
There are actually two examples of children's superior intelligence to the adults in the film Paisan. In episode one, Carmela is a young girl who knows a safe path to get the American soldiers close to the ocean without tripping any landmines. She is able to get them there safely, when the soldiers, with their extensive military training, should have been......
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