{"id":119862,"date":"2022-09-14T21:45:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/stream-it-or-skip-it-the-catholic-school-on-netflix-a-muddled-fictionalized-dramatization-of-a-notorious-italian-massacre"},"modified":"2022-09-14T21:45:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:45:06","slug":"stream-it-or-skip-it-the-catholic-school-on-netflix-a-muddled-fictionalized-dramatization-of-a-notorious-italian-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/stream-it-or-skip-it-the-catholic-school-on-netflix-a-muddled-fictionalized-dramatization-of-a-notorious-italian-massacre","title":{"rendered":"Stream It Or Skip It: &#8216;The Catholic School&#8217; on Netflix, a Muddled, Fictionalized Dramatization of a Notorious Italian &#8216;Massacre&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now on Netflix, The Catholic School is a horrific BOATS (Based On A True Story) movie based on an incident known as the Circeo Massacre, in which two women were tortured and raped, one of them murdered, by three upper-middle-class young men. The events were fictionalized in Edoardo Albinati&#8217;s award-winning novel The Catholic School, here adapted by director Stefano Mordini from 1,200 pages to 106 minutes. As it follows the peer group from an all-boys school that spawned the three perpetrators, the film makes plenty of inferences about their background and upbringing, thus setting it up as a potentially provocative watch. THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?The Gist: A muffled voice calls for help from inside the trunk of a white Fiat. A sweaty young man hurries away; a passerby hears the woman&#8217;s pleas. Flash back six months: a priest leads two rows of Catholic school boys, wearing Speedos, in calisthenics. Voiceover narration: &#8220;It was 1975, and violence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now on Netflix, The Catholic School is a horrific BOATS (Based On A True Story) movie based on an incident known as the Circeo Massacre, in which two women were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,106],"tags":[19,21,69,55,163],"class_list":["post-119862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tv-videos","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-religion","tag-society","tag-tv-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}