Paolo Genovese addresses suicide and toddler bullying in ‘The first day of my existence’: “Suicide causes disgrace”

The Italian movie director Paolo Genovese premieres this Friday, July 7, his subsequent film, ‘The first day of my lifestyles’, a film that addresses an “definitely international story”, which include suicide, starring Toni Servillo.

“Suicide is a social, political and non secular taboo, in which no one might admit that they have got attempted it. Whoever makes a decision to do it has decided to give up, now not face the situation, enhance their palms and that reasons disgrace”, he assured in an interview with Europe Press in Madrid.

Genovese has lamented that it is a scenario that is not dealt with socially and in his film one of the protagonists is a minor who, because of school bullying, comes to a decision to take his personal lifestyles.

“The maximum frequent drama of youth is the sensation of no longer being as much as the mission. Now younger human beings are invaded by many pictures, out of control facts and messages, and often they're not able to decipher the that means of them. Before they faced issues from a small network but now they're facing a big community”, he defined.

In this sense, the director blames social networks for the excessive claims created amongst younger human beings at a essential degree. “Everything they see seems that you usually should win, you need to be good-looking, rich and effective. But that doesn’t exist,” he stressed.

“If you start to think that that is everyday existence, it will make you experience insufficient and as much as par. Therefore, that generates disappointment, melancholy, and really regularly in lots of instances the choice to leave this life as it isn't always for me,” he said.

Genovese hopes this movie will provide audiences “electricity” to start over, specifically after the pandemic, wherein “many have hit rock bottom in their lives.” “We come from a virulent disease, we've got all extra or less touched the bottom of our lives. Many people have had problems, we've got stopped, society has stopped. The goal is that the film that talks approximately rebirth may be favored as an impulse to go back to begin once more”, has exact.

In this regard, he considers that normality has not but back and believes that society has been “very eager for reactions after the pandemic.” Society’s reactions were a good deal more potent, collective and determined than I imagined. At the instant, I am visiting a lot round the arena and I actually have the sensation that the pandemic is a far greater remote reminiscence than it is,” she talked about.

‘THE FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE’

The movie is based on his homonymous novel –additionally written by way of Genovese– and revolves around four individuals who are deliberating suicide to whom a mysterious man “offers” an additional week of time to discover what the sector might be like with out they.

This thriller man is the one played by means of Toni Servillo because he's a “so complete” actor, in Genovese’s opinion, that he believes he's capable of “communicating different factors”. “The individual needed diverse characteristics, he needed to be a person with expertise, with character, a few thriller, some sweetness and a lot of credibility. I think Toni is so whole that he's capable of all this,” he has targeted.

Genovese changed into the director of the movie ‘Perfect Strangers’, which achieved 23 adaptations and screened in one hundred sixty nations. “It is the film with the most ‘remakes’ inside the world,” he emphasized. However, he does not believe that this may show up with ‘The first day of my life’ and insists that it is a “taboo” difficulty.

“The trouble of suicide is very tough, but the essential issue approximately those troubles is they depart a residue internal and push the viewer to an important reflection. In addition, the maximum a success films are comedies,” he indicated, earlier than commenting that the movie it's far about the look for happiness “although the advent can be scary”.