La Disubbidienza -1981- Imdb -

Unlike political rebellion, Luca’s disobedience is existential . He disobeys the unspoken rules of his class — to pretend, to obey without question, to sacrifice honesty for comfort. The film asks: Is it better to conform and be dead inside, or disobey and be free but alone?

Stifled by his bourgeois parents—a father obsessed with fading status and a mother trapped in hollow social graces—Luca decides to stop participating in the world. He calls it his "disobedience." He stops eating, stops speaking, and treats his possessions like cursed objects. To Luca, the world is a decaying corpse, and he refuses to be a part of the rot. La Disubbidienza -1981- Imdb

The story follows , a 14-year-old boy growing up in a wealthy, fragmented Italian family during the tumultuous years following World War II. After the sudden death of his mother, Luca begins a desperate, often uncomfortable journey to understand love, mortality, and power. His "disobedience" is not a political act in the streets but a private, sexual, and emotional rebellion against his detached father and the oppressive norms of his class. Stifled by his bourgeois parents—a father obsessed with

(Stefania Sandrelli), a nurse who cares for him and eventually becomes his lover, helping him find a reason to live through his "disobedience" to social norms. La disubbidienza (1981) - IMDb The story follows , a 14-year-old boy growing

: Initially a brave partisan, Luca becomes deeply depressed when the end of the war fails to bring the societal changes he expected. The Descent