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Is she a mermaid or a myth?
Partenope is a woman named after her city. In Greek myth, Partenope is the mermaid who committed suicide after failing to enchant Ulysses.
In the film Partenope is the personification of the city of Naples
Her body was carried by the tide to the place where Castel dell’Ovo stands, and for this reason she gave the name to the city that would later become Neapolis, Naples. Written by Peter GregsonDirected by Peter Gregson, Warren Zielinski, Magdalena Filipczak, Laurie Anderson, Ashok Klouda.
However, there are questions to which we are not ready to know the answers, because we have not experienced suffering, and this alone is the key to awareness
This is what I like about Sorrentino, that his films are like a book of a thousand existential questions that collide like electrons in the atom of our consciousness, trying to find the integrity of our self. Partenope is precisely one of those films that asks us so many questions: what do we think when our gaze flies; what does it mean not to use the beauty you are gifted with and what price will you pay to have it; what is the power of love when we are young; how do you bear the burden of being smarter than others and does this make you an abnormal person or simply sad and misunderstood; if love, as a means of survival, has failed; when is the time to leave; what personal freedom turns into when you lock it in a cage.
And in Naples, as we see, there are many of them
Parthenope is a sad film in which personal freedom is forced to be locked up in order to survive and not be killed by a tyrannical and backward society that has one main occupation: to judge everyone with the iron hammer of its prejudices and traditions. A small hell in an apparent paradise where not everyone survives.
The important thing is not to judge anyone, so as not to be judged!
To find out what the outcome will be for the minority whose emotional intelligence does not conform to public prejudice, watch Partenope and suffer!