I-m Not Scared -2003- Jun 2026

Wheat fields, sunflowers, abandoned farmhouses, bicycles. Cinematographer Italo Petriccione uses warm, overexposed tones, evoking childhood freedom and classical Italian neorealism’s rural beauty. Michele’s games with sister Maria and friends suggest timeless summer idylls.

Though not explicitly political, the film’s 1978 setting echoes the tail end of Italy’s Years of Lead (1969–1980s), marked by terrorism, kidnappings, and state corruption. However, Salvatores relocates violence from Red Brigades to rural poverty. The kidnapping is not ideological but economic—a desperate act by a community abandoned by the northern economic miracle. i-m not scared -2003-