If the series dedicated to the murder of Sarah Scazzi is called Avetrana – This is not Hollywood it’s because the director Pippo Mezzapesa and the producer Matteo Rovere decided to tell what happens when a case in the news – the murder of Sarah Scazzi, a fifteen year old from Avetrana (Taranto) killed on 26 August 2010 – upsets a community, large or small. The series, which premiered at the Rome Film Festival and was initially scheduled to land on Disney+ on October 25th, opens, in fact, with a sequence that is explanatory to say the least: a group of tourists and their guide visit the «villa of horrors» of Avetrana and the well inside which Sarah was found as if they were visiting the Uffizi.
This is the so-called «horror tourism» which, everywhere in the world, leads hundreds of fanatics to go to the places where tragedies and murders have taken place driven by a morbid curiosity which, from television and newspapers, leads them to want to see with their own eyes the places in which they have been those crimes were unleashed. Avetrana – This is not Hollywoodin addition to recounting the Scazzi case itself, talks above all about this: of how people, in the presence of a camera, change because they decide to get on the bandwagon of visibility ceasing to consider the parties involved as people but as characters.
The series, as we wrote a few lines above, should have arrived on Disney+ on October 25th but, after the appeal of the mayor of Avetranathe Court of Taranto decided to suspend it to make sure that the country, in a nutshell, does not come out badly. The bitter truth is that towns like Avetrana, Cogne and Erba will always be considered the theater of certain horrors for more than a generation. It’s obvious that this doesn’t mean that they will be forever, but it certainly won’t be a series that tarnishes its reputation, but if anything it could provide some more ideas to look at it through a new perspective.
Source: Vanity Fair
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