[ "VOTE for Tony!" ] - The FRAUD of POLITICS (english sub)

Is it time for elections in your country?
You may be interested to watch this little satiric provocation ;-)

The clip is taken by a 1963 Italian film ("Gli Onorevoli") by the great actor and comedian Antonio "Totò" De Curtis (1898-1967).
It was quite hard to translate this epic scene as funny as it is, but I tried and I hope you will get most of it.
"TRIPE" (the surname of that politician) must be meant in the "gastronomic sense" here; in fact the original name "Antonio La Trippa" means literally "Anthony The Tripe".
However in english there is a funny coincidence: "tripe" means also "something of no value; rubbish; nonsense"...and, as you see, that gives another ludicrous sense to it ;)
The "Smorfia" - with its numbers (47 - "The Dead-man Talking", etc) - is a traditional and popular Neapolitan book that assigns Lottery numbers to dreams (interpreting their characters and figures, such as a "dead-man", for example).
http://www.fieri-boston.org/tombola.htm
So here the "Dead-Man" is Mr. Tripe with its entire list (registered in nr. 47) of zombies/politicians that will - as always - deceive the citizens.
He makes his personal electoral propaganda of himself, shouting with a home-made megaphone to his neighbours from his bathroom's window...but he has no success.

This is what we have to do: stop believing in the politicians' words!
The system is corrupt and murderous nowadays: it's not worth giving our trust to these perfect liars and crooks. Our vote is just a silly way to comply with them and legitimate these puppets in their murderous job.
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- Original video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7s3iG... (by http://www.tankerenemy.com)
- Subtitles and descriptions:
http://www.youtube.com/user/trettomahawk
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[Wakeupsleepyhead1984]

hahaa good work. i know election time can be depressing, watching the mice in the labyrinth. just seeing everyone's false hope is depressing... not to mention people having debates about closed, one sided hegelian issues.

[trettomahawk]

I know you're here because you thought the votes were for you man haha :D

However...yes, election time is really terrible: it's like witnessing a theft or a murder and then seeing the victims paying and congratulating the criminals for their job.

A dramatic theatre of the absurd!!