Stereotypes in Divorce Italian Style

The Italian family life is very complicated, exciting, and to most outsiders, humorous. Divorce Italian Style is a parody on the always exciting, sometimes insane Italian values. Everyone in an Italian family has their own role, and they will spend their lifetime trying to perfect that role, usually at the expense of their family members. This film overplayed the roles of each family member of the Cefalú family in a very convincing and comical way.
The film’s main character, Ferdinando Cefalú, played the typical southern Italian married man. He was well educated, but not very smart; he was married, but unhappy; and he fantasized about killing his wife so that he could have his cousin. These were not the attributes of every southern Italian man, but it fits the stereotype very well. Ferdinando decides that the fantasy is not enough, and that he should murder his wife so that he can be with his cousin Rosalia. This suggests that Italian men are never content with what the...