If we were in Italy in another time, the crowds would sing the song ‘Bella Ciao’ in the streets in civic frenzy
Future historians will find it difficult to understand how we fell victim to the biblical plague that has befallen us in recent years, with its macabre legacy of tragedy and loss. In this dark age, where the exercise of compassion has become frowned upon by those who have made contempt a way of life, we know the worst in human beings. Today, however, is a day of celebration for the end of a pandemic season and other bad things. If we were in Italy in another time, the crowds would be singing Bella Ciao in the streets in civic frenzy.
Although the origin of the song is disputed and many place it in the 19th century, it was as a hymn of resistance to fascism that it ended up becoming popular, becoming a kind of emblem of freedom, after being “incorporated” by the partisans of the Resistance.
The song says: Oh beautiful, goodbye, beautiful, bye, bye, bye/One morning I woke up/And I found the invader/O partisans, take me away/That I feel like dying/And if I die as a partisan/You must bury me/And bury me up there in the mountains/Under the shade of a beautiful flower.
It describes the encounter with an “invader” who has taken possession of the house of who denounces the facts and who, desperate, considers the idea of his own death, in a reflection that mixes with the desire to react to the intruder. From this spirit is born the strength to try to face this atmosphere of cruelty and fear, knowing that the last act of the comedy may be the death of the author of the story, but in a context of euphoria and reference to music, seen as a act of rejection of brutality. . With a lively beat, it’s not hard to see why the song has come to become a symbol of confrontation with arbitrariness. This symbol in which, in the songs, the original figure of the call to the loved one is transformed into an ironic farewell to the entity (person, party or movement) that embodies the one whose departure becomes the object of celebration. Parody Galvano Buenoone could very well shout, as at the 1994 World Cup: “It’s over! It’s over!”.
There are symbols that are period portraits. The photograph of the girl escaping from Napalm marked the Vietnam War. The line that “civilization has left Brazil”, by Yvonne Bezerra, will be a definition of the years we are ending up in these sad tropics, with its following of absurdities. Soon we will return to dealing with numbers and other aspects of reality. There will be no shortage of tax nonsense. Today is the time to celebrate – and to shout out loud: BEAUTIFUL CIAO, CIAO, CIAO!
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Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
