Review by HALfie

“Dear Diary” is a simple and a sincere movie that looks inside the filmmaker’s mind in a tender way without filtering at all.

According to many critics, Moretti ’s appreciated in Italy as Woody Allen is in his country, many people say that his film are quite similar, but honestly speaking I think they make a huge mistake.

In fact, Moretti doesn’t represent Italian people’s mind so much, of course he’s brilliant, comic and very intelligent and also fiercely sarcastic but he’s definitely an uncommon person that express his very personal  and proud point of view.

He never explains completely and clearly his thoughts in a linear way but each time he gives us a little trace and after that he suddenly changes focusing on elsewhere.

Throughout the entire movie, Moretti writes down his intimate thoughts, his fears and ideas in order to look for himself; finally he succeeds in this extent after putting in order his flow of minds, finding a shred of humanity in a beautilful and empty Rome and after approaching the place where Pasolini was killed.

Probably the key of interpretation of the movie stays in the serious disease he had to fight, in some shots is quite clear that he tries to resume his life, finding energies inside.

However this introspective research is not a request of sympathy, nothing would be farther from his style

It’s just a “personal” statement of being survived with dignity after a big and disappointing political failure and after a deadly cancer.

Disregarding the aim, the movie is enjoyable whatever meaning you could get.