"La Rabbia is a film of love. Yet its lucidity is comparable to that pf Kafka's aphorism: 'The Good is, in a certain sense, comfortless.'
This is why I say Pasolini was like an angel.
The film lasts only an hour, an hour that was fashioned, measured, edited forty years ago. And it is in such contrast to the news commentaries we watch and the information fed to us now, that when the hour is over, you tell yourself that it is not only the animal and plant species which are being destroyed or made extinct today, but also set after set of human priorities. The latter are systematically sprayed, not with pesticides, but with ethicides - agents that kill ethics and therefore any notion of history and justice.
Particulary targeted are those of our priorities which have evolved from the human need for sharing, bequeathing, consoling, mourning and hoping. And the ethicides are sprayed day and night by the mass news media.
The ethicides are perhaps less effective, less speedy than the controllers hoped, but they have suceeded in burying and covering up the imaginative space that any central public forum represents and requires. (Our forums are everywhere but for a moment they are marginal.) And on the wasteland of the covered - over forums (reminiscent of the wasteland on which he was assasinated by the Fascists) Pasolini joins us with Rabbia, and his enduring example of how to carry the chorus in our heads."
by John Berger








