The Damned is a Trojan horse critique of modern America.
Roberto Minervini’s The Damned is titled after Luchino Visconti’s awesome, harrowing 1969 epic about Nazi decadence, The Damned. Minervini is an Italian immigrant (not a “migrant,” as the media and politicians like to misname the illegal invaders) who arrived in the U.S. at age 30 in 2000 — during the Bush-Gore electoral conflict, he recalls. Since then, Minervini graduated from New York City’s socialist university The New School, eventually settling in Texas, where he chose native white locals as the subject of his semi-documentary filmmaking.
