Over dinner, one of the few times that the entire family is seen together (they rarely interact in more than groups of two), a telegram is delivered to the gate by a skipping, child-like post-boy (played by Pasolini???s young companion Ninetto Davoli, who was often cast in similar ???comical-na??ve??? roles in many of the director???s films) and is handed over to the patriarch by the housemaid Emi