Among the most intense and symbolic titles of Italian cinema of the last decades, The hundred stepsdirected by Marco Tullio Giordana, is much more than a simple spatial reference: it is a powerful metaphor of distance (physical, emotional, but above all moral) between the protagonist, Peppino Impastato, and the world that tries to change.
The film tells the True story by Giuseppe “Peppino” Impastatoyoung activist and journalist of Cinisi, a small Sicilian town dominated by the mafia. Peppino grows in a family linked to Cosa Nostra, but since he was a boy he chooses to rebel against that culture of silence, fear and criminal power. Through his free radio and his political commitment, he publicly denounces the wrongdoings of the Boss Gaetano Badalamentihis neighbor.
And it is precisely here that the meaning of the title is revealed: the House of Peppino was hundred steps from that of the mafia boss. A proximity that becomes a symbol of the absurdity and the paradox of his struggle: to grow so close to evil, to know him from within, yet to decide to oppose, even at the cost of life. The hundred steps are not only the measure of a physical distance, but the concrete sign of a moral choice. It is the courage to break with your roots, of denounce what many pretend not to see. A simple but very powerful title, which contains all the pain and heroism of those who choose to walk against the current.
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