La briglia sul collo ( Cecilia Mangini, 1974) eng sub

Sevenyearold Fabio Spada is narrated into our awareness with pedestrian, bureaucratic details: the name of his parents, the exact location of his familys cramped living situation in a tower block in the Roman suburbs, and this suburbs transport connections. The film consists of interviews with the proverbial village involved in raising this child, who has been deemed a misfit by his school. Fabios father, propped up at a bar and raising a glass to the camera crew, recounts his sons misdeeds with amused detachment, including his attempted murder of the familys pet fish a week earlier. His mother struggles to talk about her son as she changes her youngest child, the others causing havoc around her and asks the film crew whether theyre going to edit out the chaos. A neighbour, meanwhile, notes Fabios lack of respect for his mother and fear of his father.