Broadly based on the book "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" by Erving Goffman, the documentary explores the liminal divergence between the social and dramaturgical roles. Through Ettore, a singer-songwriter and the protagonist of the movie, the film studies our need to represent something we are lacking and cannot experience, and the impossibility of blocking this need.... (Full plot summary below)
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Broadly based on the book "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" by Erving Goffman, the documentary explores the liminal divergence between the social and dramaturgical roles. Through Ettore, a singer-songwriter and the protagonist of the movie, the film studies our need to represent something we are lacking and cannot experience, and the impossibility of blocking this need.
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