Moccia, young rebels, let the school be an example

(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 28 - "In the Covid era, loves and the normal life of high school students will be at risk. Young people themselves are at risk. We are all inevitably conditioned by what is happening. But children have a dangerous delusion of omnipotence, for heaven's sake, natural at their age. Let's think that in our times we used to ride a motorbike without helmets! But the task of us adults is to impose on them the rules of distancing and masks, repeating them to the point of obsession. Even if adolescent boys, we know, as soon as they turn the corner they will do as they like and even strangers in the dark will do ". Word of FedericoMoccia, writer, director and screenwriter, interviewed by ANSA in view of the reopening of the school. Moccia became popular precisely with his novels on amorigiovanili, from Three times you, followed by Three meters above the sky and I want you (2006), the novel from which, a year later, the film "dei padlocks in Ponte Milvio" was made. ", starring Riccardo Scamarcio and Laura Chiatti, directed by Luis Prieto and with Federico Moccia, author of the script. The film achieved great public success, grossing over 13.5 million euros, and crowning Riccardo Scamarcio the idol of Italian teenagers of the time.
    Moccia therefore knows about youthful loves. "But I have two children aged 8 and 10 who are still manageable. They lived in school like everyone normally does until March. Then the lockdown, without being able to be together with classmates and play outdoors. What I don't understand now is the controversy raised. by the professors just a few days after the school reopened. Why don't they want to undergo tampons like everyone else? Even on vacation we underwent temperature measurements and wore masks at the restaurant until we were seated at the table. All at the Argentario where I was at holidays kept safe distances. We adults must impose the rules and set an example first ". (HANDLE).