"After Dante (Benigni), an ordinary school bus driver returning from his extraordinary adventure in Palermo, his takeaway is that people there is dead serious about lawfulness, as he can personally vouch that filching a banana can incite vehement public censure. The joke is broad but also smart and trenchant levering at the Mafia-ridden Sicily region. In Benigni's JOHNNY STECCHINO, the snow job is never debunked for a simpleton like Dante, and as a comedy filmmaker, Benigni's brilliant acumen is to tap into audience's explicit knowingness and elicit ample lulz at the expenses of our protagonist's bewilderedness and misapprehensions."
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