We Can Do That Page #2

Synopsis: Set in Italy in the early 1980s the film follows Nello (Claudio Bisio), the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities and explore the wider world around them although, regardless of intention, there is sometimes a price to pushing boundaries too quickly. "We can do that" maintains a sometimes troubled, but ultimately unwavering faith in human nature and human potential.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Giulio Manfredonia
  10 wins & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Year:
2008
111 min
33 Views


I miss everything,

even the occupied bathroom.

Really?

Do the job you want

but don't leave me,

a free bathroom is horrible.

It was fifteen?

Why didn't he get walloped?

I have the procedure here for...

Procedure for sudden violence:

ten milligrams of Serenase

three times a day.

Why didn't they give him anything?

It's written here: sudden violence.

Got a cigarette?

Mr. Nello,

I'll take this.

Hello, Mr. Gigio.

You do it wrong on purpose!

Know what I say?

Well done, it's not easy

to make designs like this,

this is artistry.

But we're not a co-operative of art,

we're a co-operative of work.

Why does the City

have us paste stamps?

Because we're mentally ill.

Okay, but the customer

must be satisfied,

the work has to be done well.

They pay us anyway.

Why do you stare at us like that?

We're crazy, not stupid!

Wouldn't you like

to have a normal job?

I get worked-up,

like my father,

he got so worked-up he died,

I don't know how to do a normal job.

Learn, you have the qualities,

doing designs like this isn't easy.

How much does a normal job pay?

Pretty well.

Let's review,

who remembers the two choices?

Fabio.

Welfare work:
it's not tiring,

but it serves no purpose.

Enter the market:

you bust your butt, but you're useful

to others and make money.

- Excellent.

- I wanted to say it.

Let's vote.

Who votes for welfare?

I think the market

is a very vulgar thing.

Three votes.

Who votes for the market?

- No welfare!

- We won.

Now let's decide what work to do,

anyone have an idea?

- Mr. Ossi.

- I have no ideas.

Not one idea, total void.

Thank you, this also contributes

to the discussion.

Let's write "no ideas",

thank you.

- Other proposals?

- I have an idea.

As a good professional,

anything is alright with me,

but I'd like to be the manager,

if possible.

Manager, of course it's possible.

Other proposals? Mr. Goffredo.

- A co-operative of sheriffs.

- What bullshit!

It can be done.

A co-operative of sheriffs, why not?

- What is it?

- Let's buy a truck.

- I drive and they change the tires.

- It can be done.

Mr. Robby.

Thank you for your intervention,

we'll write "Robby's proposal".

Other ideas? Ms. Luisa.

My grandpa had a sawmill,

it had a nice wood smell.

Work with wood? It can be done,

I laid parquet floors as a kid.

My boss says no one's willing

to sweat in sawdust anymore,

are you?

- We are.

- I am!

- Good.

- Not me.

It's not one of my interests.

- In life, we all have to work.

- I work miracles.

The UFOs pay me

as an invalid retiree,

it comes on the 27.

Lucky you.

Who wants to work with parquet?

Hold it, that's not the way,

we can't decide by voting,

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