Gomorra

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Silvio P @RT11431283 Aug 12 It’s good, but it could be much better; it tries hard to copy *City of God* but fails. Too much written exposition. See more EE D @RT03285035 Oct 13 for me there was no 'click', the movie is made like a documentary but it lacks the human touch that makes documentaries grasp you See more S R @ScottR 05/31/2025 I was hesitant to see this since I thought it was Sodom, but I was wrong. It was an interesting film raising awareness with dramatization about Italian gangs and their influence / destructive nature. It was also based on real facts. I had never thought about this side of Italian culture and it was eye opening despite the confusing narrative that made it hard to keep my interest. It was on the NYT 1000 movies list. SLC DVD. See more Glen H @RT70111130 04/12/2025 The film is like watching a documentary showing the real-life version of the glorified Hollywood version of the mafia. It's human centric narrative of multiple weaving narratives may be off-putting to some, because there is no clear singular protagonist to root for. But if you're willing to sit through the the fractured narrative, it is a powerful piece of filmmaking that shows the corrupted nature of humanity at its primitive, tribal core. And the performances Garrone masterful extracts from his cast, using a combination of lesser known actors and non-actors in the Italian neo-realist style, are second to none. See more Robson C @RT82519826 03/21/2025 O filme narra como trabalha a Camorra, a violenta máfia napolitana, através de histórias de algumas pessoas. Assim, temos Totó, um menino pré-adolescente que faz pequenos serviços. Pasquale, um alfaiate que trabalha em fábricas têxteis clandestinas para as etiquetas da alta costura, que decide ganhar um dinheiro extra. Don Ciro, o responsável por levar dinheiro para as famílias dos que estão presos e se achava protegido. Temos Franco, que possui uma empresa para livrar dos dejetos químicos, mas não faz corretamente. E, por fim, os amigos Ciro e Boxer, que decidem se rebelar com a máfia e seguir as suas próprias regras. Em todas essas histórias, temos a mão pesada da Camorra. O filme lembra um pouco Cidade de Deus, por ilustrar bem a situação. No filme brasileiro, a violência que sempre norteou o conjunto residencial carioca. Aqui, um painel atual deste grupo criminoso. Nos dois filmes, não há o glamour dos gangsters americanos. Não há ternos bem cortados. Todos vestem roupas comuns: camisetas, bermudas, tênis. A violência é gráfica. O Estado, inexistente. Cidade de Deus e Gomorra podem se dizer filmes irmãos. See more Ben D @RT87620530 12/18/2024 I first viewed Gomorra in 2011 and remembered very little of it, except for the fate of Ciro a.k.a. “Sweet Pea” (Ciro Petrone). This is an entangled story of crime and violence set in the “Mezzogiorno”. However, these are not the quotable, slick figures we venerate in TV and film in America, but monsters ranging from low-brow drug-dealing, middle-brow gun-running, and high(er)-brow toxic chemical dumping villains. The characters’ appearances match the grotesquerie of their actions. We meet Ciro and Marco (Marco Macor), one of the five storylines, impersonating Tony Montana in an abandoned building in Campania — this is as close to the “good life” as anyone seems to get in this movie. The building where many of the characters live and much of the action takes place is a freaky complex (Sette palazzi) that feels simultaneously futuristic and decrepit as if it were imagined as a semi-open air beacon of communal living taken over by Mafiosi — it’s something you’d imagine leftover in colonial Africa or South America. The abject violence — even generally respected codes of victimization are violated — is intentional, as this is based on a book chronically a civil war amongst the Camorra. It’s a grim view of this “underworld” that has control over the lives of everyone around them. The stories concerning drugs and guns (not so much the chemical waste and counterfeit dresses) become a little difficult to follow. An unwritten rule of gangster moviemaking is that the gangsters, especially the leads, must die at the end, so as not to encourage youths to join. Here, from start to finish, that isn’t a problem at all. Nothing about this lifestyle is enviable or interesting. It feels like there’s a 50% chance you’ll be shot to death and buried in a pit. See more Read all reviews

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