“Today when I see a sun that dives into the sea, I think it can be a sunset, but I wouldn’t mind if it was also a dawn.” Matteo Porru speaks fast, zigzagging between quotes, metaphors, examples. I never avoid questions, on the contrary, he tackles them with momentum, building it on the cathedrals of words, reasoning, reflections. Talking to him is a little lost in a world that has nothing – or perhaps too much – of his twenty years but that is radiated by a visceral hope. And it is the one that surprises, even before its various primates (the prestigious American economy magazine Fortune The newspaper in Italy, the newspaper The Republic Among the under 25): despite his life he immediately put him to the test, Porru is still mad in love with existence.
Its story is so particular that it has become a DOCFILM: Matte, directed by Michele Garau for Rai digital and transmedia content, available on the platform Raiplay. Ever since she was still in her mother’s baby bump, the doctors had invited parents to evaluate abortion because of a series of complications. They refused and, for the first two years, everything filmed everything smooth. Then hell came: that of the corridors of the hospitals, of the white dormitories, of the roommates who screamed, desperate, “mom”. “I will never forget that cry,” Matteo assures. They, like him, were too small oncological patients to face all those care and that isolation. To do this, he and his parents resorted to fantasy: a talent that no longer abandoned him by transforming him into an established writer and journalist. On January 28, his latest book was released in the bookstore: The flight over the ocean (Garzanti Editore).
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(Image at the top: Matteo Porru, photo of Azzura Primavera)
