Il giovane corsaro. Pasolini a Bologna

A young student prepares his degree thesis on Pasolini and Bologna by investigating the relationship of the great intellectual with the city of his childhood and his studies. Following in the footsteps left by Pasolini in Bo­logna, the protagonist will tell, for the first time in the form of a documentary and with a rock narrative rhythm, the emotional, visceral but also controversial bond of Pasolini with Bologna until his final days, also characterized by severe criticisms of the “consumerist and communist” city, a symbolic terrain of the adverse social and economic metamorphosis from paleo­industrial to neo-capitalist societyth the neo-capitalist one. Bologna was also chosen by Paolini as the set of important films such as “Edipo Re”, “Comizi d’amore” and above all the scandalous last “Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma”. Many characteristics and even inconsistencies of Pasolini are shared with the nature of his hometown: the multifaceted cultural fervor, the curiosity towards all possible directions of artistic thougt, the inconsistency between the bourgeois soul and the progressive, conservative and avant-garde, reactionary and rebellious, chatholic and hedonist.