I'm Not Scared Key Quotes
• It’s not fair, it’s always my turn! – Barbara – ‘Non e justo’
• Ferma (stop) – Michele
• I’ll pay up. I came last – Michele’s moral righteousness is evident at the start
• ‘Your heavy’ & ‘Did you do your push ups?’ – CC, Pino judges Michele in terms of his masculinity and physical strength
• So they bury him and he remains in the belly of the earth among secrets, corpses, bones, skeletons and darkness – Michele’s active imagination – his coping mechanism
• If you want to do as you please then leave. Get lost! – Pino banishes Michele when the shoe sales man has arrived, distance between Pino & Michele is established
• I’m not playing anymore – growing divide between Michele & his friends, he has more adult concerns on his mind other than ‘stiff statues’.
• Someone’s coming in a few days. So no fuss and no whining – Sergio is coming
• If Felice comes and finds it, he’ll figure it out – Michele is worried that Felice will find the bread as Filippo won’t give it back
• Are you my guardian angel?
• I’m dead – Filippo’s reasoning as to why he has been left in the hole, why have his parents left him there?
• Hide him and stay cool – Sergio’s instructions to his fellow kidnappers – power
• They said it would end soon. It’s been two months!
• You’re the worst because you think – Sergio puts Pino down, actions are what are required in Sergio’s mind
• We’ll cut off two ears – Felice attempting to be manly and brave, Sergio’s influence
• Your Mom was on T.V, you could see the sailing ship. She said that she and your dad love you very much – Michele recounts events on the news
• We’re the same – The irony, Filippo & Michele are exactly the same but Pino cannot see this
• Brazil’s some country. Life costs nothing. Served, venerated. It’s not like this shitty county. Sergio’s idyllic life in Brazil, different to life in poverty bound rural Italy
• I made a cake … with cream – symbolic importance of the cake, represents their new life
• He’s taking us to the
• Ferma (stop) – Michele
• I’ll pay up. I came last – Michele’s moral righteousness is evident at the start
• ‘Your heavy’ & ‘Did you do your push ups?’ – CC, Pino judges Michele in terms of his masculinity and physical strength
• So they bury him and he remains in the belly of the earth among secrets, corpses, bones, skeletons and darkness – Michele’s active imagination – his coping mechanism
• If you want to do as you please then leave. Get lost! – Pino banishes Michele when the shoe sales man has arrived, distance between Pino & Michele is established
• I’m not playing anymore – growing divide between Michele & his friends, he has more adult concerns on his mind other than ‘stiff statues’.
• Someone’s coming in a few days. So no fuss and no whining – Sergio is coming
• If Felice comes and finds it, he’ll figure it out – Michele is worried that Felice will find the bread as Filippo won’t give it back
• Are you my guardian angel?
• I’m dead – Filippo’s reasoning as to why he has been left in the hole, why have his parents left him there?
• Hide him and stay cool – Sergio’s instructions to his fellow kidnappers – power
• They said it would end soon. It’s been two months!
• You’re the worst because you think – Sergio puts Pino down, actions are what are required in Sergio’s mind
• We’ll cut off two ears – Felice attempting to be manly and brave, Sergio’s influence
• Your Mom was on T.V, you could see the sailing ship. She said that she and your dad love you very much – Michele recounts events on the news
• We’re the same – The irony, Filippo & Michele are exactly the same but Pino cannot see this
• Brazil’s some country. Life costs nothing. Served, venerated. It’s not like this shitty county. Sergio’s idyllic life in Brazil, different to life in poverty bound rural Italy
• I made a cake … with cream – symbolic importance of the cake, represents their new life
• He’s taking us to the