Now he expects to know only the date«I already think Tomorrow with the distribution we could establish it, also in light of the commitments that exist theater», explains the mayor of CastelvetranoGiovanni Lentini. Having overcome this detail, the inhabitants of the hometown of the deceased boss Matteo Messina Money they will be able to see the film ‘Jesus‘ in their municipality. The administration has identified the Selinus theatre as a room to screen the film that has sparked so many controversy.
The no to projection in his Marconi cinema (only hall in the city) decided by Salvatore Vaccarino opened the debate on the entrepreneur’s choice, made to honor the memory of his father: «in the film he is depicted as a being despicablea delinquent who seeks to obtain personal gain in circumstances that are anything but noble,” he says Vaccarino junior which has seen, up to now, only the trailer. This was enough for him to judge the character Catello Patello (played by Toni Servillo) who, although without a clear reference to Vaccarino, interprets the figure of his father who for two years had an exchange of letters with Messina Moneywhile the boss was fugitive. An epistolary in which “Iddu” it was signed Suetonius.
Hence the decision not to screen the film and, instead, to show it ‘Falcone and Borsellino, the fire of memorythe documentary film that «remembers two real heroes of the anti-mafia. It is already scheduled for Thursday October 10ththe day it will be released in Italian cinemas”Iddu” – explains Vaccarino – my father and I have always organized in our cinema anti-mafia initiativesfilm screenings, debates, meetings with directors, no one can accuse us of not doing it. My father’s work, contrary to what is told in the film, in reality, was always aimed at serving with sacrifice, dedication and loyalty the only institution he always turned to: the Italian state. And now the risk is to mythologize the criminalscharacters of the caliber of Matteo Messina Money». Hence the invitation to his fellow citizens to come down square «to exalt honest figures and victims of mafia».
Lentini met Vaccarino in recent days, trying to convince him, but the result was not as hoped. This is why the mayor decided for a screening in another place but always in Castelvetrano. Al Selinus theatrewhich is located a few tens of meters from the Marconi cinemadid the inspection yesterday Luigi Drago from the Grillo multiplex Of Mazara del Vallowhich will have to mount the screen and projector, then you will also have to decide on the entry mode.
Vaccarino junior won’t see the film: «Who would be happy to show a throwaway film in their cinema? mud on your own parent?”. «The character of Catello nothing to do with family Vaccarino – said the directors Fabio Grassadonia And Antonio Piazza to the preview a Mazara del Vallo – he is an imaginary character, although we took inspiration from the news situation.” The reference is precisely to the exchange of letters, which lasted two years, between Messina Money still at large and Antonio Vaccarinowho died at the age of 76 Covid at the hospital Catanzaro in 2021, while he was detained. The boss instead died six months after his capture September 25that the age of 61 in a maximum security room in the prison ward ofSan Salvatore hospital of theEagleand was buried two days later privately in the cemetery of Castelvetrano.