{"id":18713,"date":"2026-06-29T21:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18713"},"modified":"2026-06-28T20:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:41:56","slug":"hawks-and-sparrows-1966-pier-paolo-pasolini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18713","title":{"rendered":"Hawks and Sparrows (1966, Pier Paolo Pasolini)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rare movie with a bird title that is not a metaphor, two guys (long-faced comedian Toto and the curly-haired young guy from every Pasolini movie, both of them very good) are sent by St. Francis to spread the good word to the hawks and the sparrows.  They spend a year in a field until Toto learns to talk to hawks and tell them about god.  Stalking sparrows in a churchyard, Toto attracts a following, getting overrun with townspeople building a festival around him, finally begs forgiveness then rampages through the place, pelting nuns with ricotta.  When they see a hawk eat a sparrow, they inform St. Francis and he tells them to start over.  Back in the present-day framing story, I don&#8217;t like how the film crew keeps pulling the talking communist crow by a string.  Not sure if the plot disintegrated in the last third or if I&#8217;d had too many beers, but Toto gets as tired of the dubbed crow as I did, and eats it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/hawks1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s not a serious movie:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/hawks2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/hawks4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>St. Francis, also of Rossellini&#8217;s Cartesius:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/hawks5.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Philosophy:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/hawks6.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rare movie with a bird title that is not a metaphor, two guys (long-faced comedian Toto and the curly-haired young guy from every Pasolini movie, both of them very good) are sent by St. Francis to spread the good word to the hawks and the sparrows. They spend a year in a field until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,239,336,225,1959,63],"class_list":["post-18713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-birds","tag-communism","tag-italy","tag-pier-pasolini","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18762,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18713\/revisions\/18762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}