The decay of Palermo is portrayed by three brothers, forced by a pair of Mafia dwarfs to host an anonymous, silent character. 　　These images opposed a brutal reality to televised unreality, crystallised a Sicilian and Italian post-civilisation of inertia, misery and waste beyond deceptive words, expressed a purely bodily survival primary and tenacious, said, “Life sucks.” 　　Lietta Tornabuoni, “La Stampa,” 1995