 The version released in the U.S.A. omits one four minute sequence which takes  place early in the film and sets up Loris (Benignis) adversarial  relationships with the manager of his apartment building as well as the  little girl who throws dead cats in his apartment . The scene involves a  tenants meeting inside a school gym. Loris has voted against the entire body  and is invited to voice his objections. The manager ends up pursuing Loris to  the top of a basketball hoop upon which the little girl shoots him with a  water gun. Loris falls through the hoop which breaks and he ends up leaving  with as much dignity as he can muster with the hoop net over his body.