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13 January 2020The Patriarchate of Venice against Paolo Sorrentino for the "offensive" use of religious symbols and a room of the Cini Foundation of the island of San Giorgio for the theme song "The New Pope".In a note, the delegate of the Patriarch for cultural heritage, Don Gianmatteo Caputo, underlines today that the images of the initials of the series "have provoked different reactions for their content. In the awareness that it is a fantasy series, and that creativity the director's artistic desire to provoke controversial reactions, at times irreverent and provocative, the scene - an integral part of the film - is offensive in itself, furthermore lacking a narrative context that justifies the reason and the content. Therefore what is offered to the spectators is only a shot similar to a music video made in a fundamental place in the history and monastic tradition in Venice, transformed into a sort of stage for a dance with a winking and allusive content, located - he specifies - under the Christian symbol par excellence, the cross ".
According to Caputo "it is not necessary to bother the censorship to say that we are facing an episode that offends and profane, for the reference to the symbol of the cross, and is inappropriate because it is based on the free will to provoke and provoke reactions; as in other cases, perhaps it should simply be ignored in order to nullify its objective. It would have been however advisable not to allow, for the filming - he concludes - the use of that space with a high historical and symbolic value ".