Because Benito Mussolini, apart from anything else, definitely knew how to put on a show.
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He would have approved, for example, of the way the series starts.
Of course, it didnt.
Luca Marinelli as Mussolini in ‘M. Son of the Century.‘Venice Film Festival
In the last episode, he pulls back from oblivion.
As we know all too well, he will soon have a glorious war on his hands.
He would stand as prime minister, knowing he would win.
Im like an animal, he often says.
I can smell the time ahead and it is my time.
Simple ideas and a strong man, he adds: Thats all people want.
Once they had voted for him, they need never vote again.
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There is the odd arch in-joke Make Italy great again!
If it will pay him to kneel to the king he despises, he will do it.
And yet, he is never quite a monster.
Enraptured by his own graven image, he doesnt even hear her say shes leaving him.
These club-mix massacres evoke both the horror and sheer excitement of fascism; its politics for sadists and thrill-seekers.
