Moore o Matrix?

In the past decade, in Italy, several films have represented political personalities, as well as events of social interest, by means of heterogeneous forms of genre, that hybridize documentary and comedy. The article analyzes this production, and addresses in particular the case of Draquila (Sabina Guzzanti, 2010), by comparing these films with their alleged references, which are the militant documentaries directed by Michael Moore, and underscoring the differences that distinguish such films from that model. The hypothesis is that Italian documentaries (or mockumentaries) dedicated to recent events, employ cinema as a means of cultural legitimization, much more than as a medium in the traditional sense, and work as fragments of a transmedia narrative focused on what is probably the most spreadable type of content within the national context: contemporary Italian politics.