"Caterina In The Big City" Review

The movie "Caterina In The Big City" was a very interesting film about a young girl who lived on the small wimpering outskirts of Italy and moves to the big city of Rome. Caterina moves to Rome due to her fathers out of synch job as a teacher at a small highschool. Her father, quits his job and moves to Rome to allow Caterina start school in the big city. Caterina's father is extremly over protective and tries to manipulate Caterina by always telling her whats right and wrong and what she should be doing. He also tries to develop connections of work and business through Caterina's high class friends and their parents.

For my review this week I wanted to focus on not a certain question but more so on Caterina herself and what she had to do in order to succeed amoungst her peers and to succeed overall in general.

Caterina has to face many opsticals within the movie, and to me one of the greatest troubles she faced was de aling with her father. Throughout the entire film he was constantly persistant about telling Caterina what to do in certain situations. Towards the begining her Father was even telling her what to specifically do in a certain situation. Caterina also has to deal with the demeaning girls and boys at her new school in the big city of Rome. There were two different clicks to join both controlled by the two head girls of the school, or most popular. These two girls, or two different sides for Caterina to choose at school represents the two different sides to political powers in Italy in Rome at the time. Caterina also not to mention has to deal with her father pestering her with trying to develop work connections for him through the politically envolved girls at the school. Caterina handles most of the issues in the movie, for a young teenage girl handling all of these new events happening in her life. I give her a lot of credit! Please comment or let me know your thoughts on how you thought Caterina handled what was dished to her.