Thursday, February 19, 2009

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"The first breath" (Le premier cri)



"According to Talmudic legend, when a child is born has the knowledge of all previous lives. An angel appears and instructs him to keep this secret. Puts his finger on the lips of the child who forgets everything. A trace of the gesture of the angel remains: is the small gap between the lips and nose ... At this time, the child may make the first cry "

So ends this beautiful documentary, directed by Gilles De Maistre, who for three years, fifteen months of filming, resumes, develop and tells ten stories, ten countries in nine months ... but for everyone!

"The first breath" tells the story more universal of all: the birth of a child, with a theme and unique, that the solar eclipse of March 29, 2006. And so, while we were in a nose up, in every corner of the world, touching the most diverse cultures, all pregnant women were united in the one universal gesture, represented by birth. The great thing is that there is a real reconstruction of events, the fact is that the viewer see what the director has really lived in those 48 hours, all surrounded by the universality of symbols such as the stomach, the planets, the ' water, sun, earth, ice, desert!

You travel the length and breadth of our World: from Mexico to Siberia, from Tanzania with the Masai tribe, India, from Japan to Vietnam, from the desert to the American community, to get to Paris!

In watching this film, I tried many different feelings, from anger at the choice of the American mother who decides to give birth within a community of 10 people without the aid of any medical support, giving rise to the she calls "free birth" and thus risk of endangering his life but also that of her child, the tenderness for the Indian mother who have not the financial resources to deal with a hospital birth, decides to rely on a ' midwife the country idyll in seeing the birth of Mexican mothers with the dolphins, the perfect obstetricians, which emit ultrasound with their verses that give security to the child at birth, the sadness in my heart before the birth of the mother in the desert is obliged to see the death of her child; the "factory of children" in Vietnam, where more than 45,000 children are born per year, until you get closer to our social reality, the French, in which a mother of cabaret dancer, dance until the day before birth, which occurred regularly thereafter in a hospital.

You see fathers who are excluded by the choice of society, fathers who are excluded by culture, fathers instead of hand touch immediately with the birth of their son.

A beautiful film, lived intensely, to someone like me who feels heard and motherhood as the most unique experience of his life, where love and pure poetry Amalga will begin to live completely what belongs to all of the birth .

"The just indulge his instinct as a woman and no better than she knows what to do."











The emotions I felt watching this movie I still behind me, because I will also been shared with two women who have a very important role in my life, my sister and my friend Ilaria, having the the possibility of expressing all my enthusiasm before those cries, but also free to stand in silence, before the death of that child, reflect totally apathetic eyes, expressionless, incredulous that mother.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

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"Ask excuse Beppino Englaro "

by Roberto Saviano

FROM ITALIAN just feel the need to hope that my country to apologize to Beppino Englaro. Sorry it has been shown, in the eyes of the world, a cruel country, unable to understand the suffering of a man and a sick woman. Sorry because he started screaming, and acknowledge, by rooting for one side and the other, that there were parts to defend.
This is not to be for life or death. Not so. Beppino Englaro tifava certainly not for the death of Eluana, even his look has the traits of the pain of a father who has lost all hope of happiness - and even beauty - through the suffering of his daughter. Beppino went and it must be respected as a man and a citizen also, and especially if you do not share his ideas. Because it is aimed at institutions and in fighting institutions and institutions, has only requested that the Supreme Court's decision was respected.
No doubt those who disagree with the position of Beppino (and those who had expressed Eluana undeniably alive) was entitled, imposed by his conscience, the duty to express opposition to stop eating and hydration, which for years took place through a tube. But the battle had to be made on the consciousness and do not in any way trying to interfere with a decision on which the judiciary was wondering for some time.
Beppino asked the law and the law, After years of appeals and complaints, has confirmed that what was called his right. That was enough to trigger anger and hatred against him? But Christian charity is that which goes by the name murderess? I learned from Christian history has to acknowledge the pain of others first of all. And to understand it and feel it in their flesh. But someone who knows nothing of the pain of a daughter motionless in a bed, Beppino compares to the "Count Ugolino" which devours his own children from starvation? And dare to say such crap in the name of a religious belief. But it is not. I know a church that is the only one to operate in the more difficult, close to the most desperate situations, only one that gives life to the dignity of migrants, who is ignored by the institutions, to those who can not float in this crisis. Unique in giving food and being present to those who would listen to no one. Comboni Fathers and the community of Sant'Egidio, Cardinal Sepe and Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, are orders, associations, Christian personalities critical to the survival of the dignity of our country.

know this Christian history. Not that the prosecution in a helpless that his father has only the weapon of the law. Beppino of respect for his daughter Eluana has released photos of smiling and beautiful, just to remember her in life, but he could show his face deformed - wan? Swollen? - Become calloused ears and runny slime, a body without expression and without hair. But he would not win by force of the blackmail of the picture, he only had the force of that law that allows the human being, as such, they can decide their own destiny. Who wants to create credit with the church displaying Eluana proximity to wonder, when the church where he railed against the war in Iraq? And when the church asks where humanity and respect for migrants crammed between Lampedusa and the depths of the Mediterranean. Where, when the church in some areas, the only voice of resistance, demand for decisive action against the mafias and the South.
would be nice to ask non-Christians in Italy believe those who feel only speculate on where the discussions do not have to prove anything in the facts, but only side. What has been lacking in these days, as always, was the ability to feel pain. The pain of a father. The pain of a family. The "pain" of a woman's property for years and in an irreversible condition, which his father had left a will. And even people who knew her and who do not know Beppino, now, that will bring into doubt. And little or no respect for law. Even when this law shall be deemed not shared by their own morality, and because it is a right you can exercise or not. This is the wonder of democracy. I understand the desire to deter people or trying to convince them not to take advantage of that right, but not to deny the same right. The show itself has given Italy in the world is to a country that has speculated sull'ennesima each other. Many politicians have, once again, used the event to try to aggregate Englaro consent and distract public opinion in a country that is crippled by the crisis, and where the crisis is allowing criminals to devour capital banks, where salaries are blocked and there seems no solution. But that's another story. And in a moment of crisis, of sentences granted, a little respect, Beppino Englaro gave strength and meaning to the Italian institutions and the possibility that a national of our country, nevertheless, can still hope in the laws and justice. It would be nice if the ending of this painful history that could be in Italy tomorrow, thanks to the peaceful struggle of Beppino Englaro, each could decide whether, in the case of vegetative state, be kept alive by machines for decades or choose your own destiny without emigrating. This is Italy's right and empathy - which has already been discussed - that allows you to also respect and understand different choices from their own, an Italy that would be great to be recognized.
From "La Repubblica" - February 12, 2009