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Actually all over the world would be more apt and accurate. This is a testament of its time and while its views of the "future", which are depicted in pictures that are supposed to show us what is going to come - although now I guess what has come would be more true(?) ... and those pictures show large buildings and a boxing match.

The first one seems to be a quite accurate prediction, I'm not sure what to make of the second one. Gladiator games were there in the past, so I don't think there is much symbolism there to be found. Whatever the case and whatever you may read into this, the movie/documentary will not make it too easy for you to digest what you see. It can all scratch the surface of many things, even when trying to get different perspectives (two parts of the movies).

When this was made it also stir up some controversies. It's not just the voice over but the moving pictures that at least suggest certain things. Flaws in societies and humans. Allegedly some countries were not happy to say the least. One of them was apparently the US of A. Now there is more to be found that is almost as interesting as the documentary itself ... in a special on the disc version I have from America. But this won't be an easy watch either, running over an hour in Italian with subtitles like the film itself. It's up to you, what you take from this

Pasolini stages such a dismal representation of the world and its sufferings, that even the liberation of Cuba from the dictatorship of Batista is represented in sadness and mourning. I would have expected a bit more dept from this brilliant director. His representation of Marxism is religious to say the least. Guareschi too is disappointing, he is way too biased - he defends the atrocities of France in Vietnam and Algeria! - and his traditional sense of humor is almost absent. Some footage is quite interesting from historical point of view, but I would suggest to watch without audio, the commentator is simply too dull and rhetorical.