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Deaf Minor 
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TITLE |
Decameron, The (1970) |
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DIRECTOR |
Pier Paolo
Pasolini
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NOTES |
This is a
film of stories from Bocaccio's "Decameron" a |
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masterpiece
of 14th Century Italian writing and a source for |
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Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales (also filmed by Pasolini). |
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One of the
stories involves a deaf and 'mute' gardener who |
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works in a
nunnery. The story depends on the general |
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impression
that deaf people cannot speak. But worse the |
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nuns
conviction that he is also a simpleton which means |
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there is no
risk if they have sex with him. The joke is on them |
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since the
gardener isn't really deaf though the Mother Superior(after
taking her chance with him) thinks his ability to speak is the result
of a miracle. |
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For me this
was a very dull adaptation. |
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Notes
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