kILL ME IF YOU CAN
Type: biographical-historical documentary
Director: Alex Infascelli. With Raffaele Minichiello
Raffaele Minichiello in a frame of “Kill Me If You Can”.
It holds the record for the longest plane hijacking: 19 hours, to be taken – in 1969, on a TWA Boeing 707 – from Los Angeles to Rome, via Denver, New York and Dublin. But it’s not just this that convinced director Alex Infascelli to dedicate a documentary to him.
The former marine Raffaele Minichiello is truly an out of the ordinary characterso much so that those exploits of his were the basis of David Morrell’s book First bloodthen at the origin of the Rambo character.
And Rambo Minichiello was a bit, serving the US army in Vietnam and determined to take revenge about who, after his leave, had defrauded him of what was due to him.
Raffaele Minichiello in a frame of “Kill Me If You Can”.
Disembarked in Italy, he is almost immediately arrested and triedbut his life does not stop there (there will also be a wife who died in childbirth for medical malpractice who had risked making him use weapons to take revenge) and Infascelli lets us hear it from the person concerned.
There are also witnesses of that flight, as well as the intervention of the son who struggles, however, to see in his father the mythical image of a hero.
And in fact in the end you wonder who this strange Rambo from Irpinia really is, to whom melancholy fits better than heroism.
For those who are attracted by people’s lives.
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