I wrote about this before but now I have seen all 8 episodes of this HBO series I just want to say how amazingly accurate all this was to the 1950s. Even here in the U.S. the people I knew (were not as poor as the ones in this show) but often similar events occurred. The verbal fights, the violence, the way women were treated. This was all really how it still was in Europe and in the U.S. if you were poor. It could even be worse than depicted on this show too especially for girls and women.
If you can't understand why people were the way they were you have to realize they just came out of World War II within the last 10 years or so, and Europe was economically devastated by the war, by Hitler, by Mussolini in Italy etc. Because Mussolini was on Hitler's side, Italy didn't fare very well after the war so people were still starving and trying to get by. So, if you were poor and were barely making it, you did whatever you could to get enough food to survive and many went crazy trying to stay alive during and after World War II.
So, this series is really amazing and likely helpful if you want to see not only how women were treated in Europe that were poor especially in Italy in the 1950s but also it is often still like this in the Middle East or worse if you are poor too to this day.
So, though Italy mostly has moved on from all this and Europe too and the U.S. and Canada and Great Britain too, much of the rest of the world has not.
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