Rome: Walking on Famous Streets

Today for my Roma Cinema Mundi class, instead of going to a film studio, we went on a "spontaneous" trip down memory lane. More like memory lanes since we were walking around a neighborhood that's notorious for making cameos in Italian movies. I will say this, beyond the cold weather and my sickness and the occasional breeze, it was really nice and most definitely beautiful. Very colorful (in a literal sense) and informative, so it carries a good chunk of history. Especially about Pier Paolo Pasolini.

He's a very important figure when it comes to 20th century Italian cinema history, and even though I don't see him as an icon because of his weird behaviors (as a 41 year old man, he said that the "love of his life" was this 15 year old teenager... talk about hella disgusting), I can't deny the fact that the projects he was involved in are still making an impact on how movies are made in Italy.

Overall, the trip taught me different things about the architecture of the buildings. For example, there were some irregular houses being built which is illegal, so they're called irregular because it's not built the regular way by regular people, aka rich people because poor people typically participated in that in order to survive. The neighborhood has no singular style, and it has a political bridge attached to it which represented the center between the haves and the have nots.

Great trip. Awful weather. Nonetheless, it was amazing.