What?? More bats?! No, not exactly. But in The Tiger and the Snow, Roberto Benigni's character Attilio verbally coaxes a bat out of a window for his frightened daughters. They are impressed by his skill with words. They ought to be. His character is a professor of poetry.
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He tells them a story about his youth. He describes an episode in enchanting detail about how a bird landed on his shoulder. But when the youngster told Grandma about it, her response was cold; she was not moved. Attilio does not blame her. He says that her reaction was entirely his fault because he did not choose his words well. The event inspired him to learn how to become a poet, i.e., to say things in such a way that the listener feels what he feels. Genius!.
I was moved by his clever story and how the movie was replete with examples of the amazing skill of this contemporary wordsmith..
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