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.

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.

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 온라인카지노추천 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.

An big sweeping crime epic that has worth the length

Among my favorite films. It is a must see.

This show was horrible. Don't waste your time.

Basic style and basic level of analysis. Not bad, nor particularly interesting/revelatory. E.g. Anyone delineating societal problems without focusing on institutions where the most wealth/power is concentrated - is missing the big picture imo.

Set in and around Naples, Gomorrah follows the exploits of career criminals, interweaving five different threads as the gangsters struggle for power in the ruthless pursuit of money. While the movie debatably has its faults (there doesn't feel like there's much in the way of character development or insight into how the characters got to where they are, the handheld cinematography feels lazy at times, and the dim lighting can be frustrating), it remains an engrossing examination of corruption and greed, filled with sudden and jolting violence, strong performances, and a sense of despair stemming from the fact that there doesn't appear to be any answer to the unrelenting stream of bloodshed.

In the mould of a he gritty hand held camera gangster films made popular by City of God around this time. It does feel fairly real and transports is to a tough Neapolitan neighbourhood where crime is all that seems to exist. There are some preachy stories and some rough ones. It works ok, but lacks that top cutting narrative to stand out in a crowded market.

Tratto dal capolavoro di Saviano, "Gomorra" racconta della quotidianità nella vita della Camorra; tutti gli affari illeciti, i personaggi e le rivalità, sono raccontati con fredda lucidità ed in maniera distaccata. Non ci si affeziona particolarmente ai personaggi, e non esiste un protagonista; ci sono solamente numerose storie, ognuna delle quali a stretto contatto con la malavita da cui è impossibile staccarsi, o quasi. Non c'è morale e non c'è dramma inutile; Garrone non calca la mano in nessun ambito, restando elegante nel racconto di qualsiasi situazione.

There have been surprisingly few serious, modern crime dramas that have opted for a realistic approach to their subject; virtually everything produced in the United States in that vein has a thick shellac of Hollywood glamorization added to it, born out of a trend by audiences to romanticize virtually every villain they come across. In Gomorrah, there is none of that - it's a story about brutality and business in a community where organized crime seems to have infected every surface. Members of the Camorra organization are shown to eat themselves and others in the course of a consistent profit, perhaps wearing a slightly more caring face at times but always wielding a gun in a hand held behind the back. Though the film's structure may be something of a slight detractor - broken down into five stories that have varied levels of success at establishing their characters and the ways that they are impacted by the Camorra - the film is stylized in a gritty way that conveys the ugliness and commonplace nature of the violence on which the local economy is run. Even though the trajectory of certain characters is clear, the action still often comes as a surprise, interrupting the flow of conversation or daily tasks. An interesting take on the crime genre with a modern setting that doesn't shy away from a bit of moral complexity while reaffirming that many of the characters involved are far from anguished about their actions. (3.5/5)

Perfect in its own disorder, there si nothing like beauty in this film Is all just a pure, raw, and unforgettable point of view of the catastrophic damage made by the organised crime.

Slow, boring, hard to understand

Thought shot and directed great. I felt the story was lacking and wasn't as compelling as the tv show.

"Gomorrah" is adapted from Roberto Saviano's controversial non-fiction book and Matteo Garrone's crime drama examines how organized crime reaches deep into every facet of life in Naples, Italy by telling the tale of over a dozen different characters. Among the main protagonists is a pair of wannabe thugs who take their cue from movie gangsters, a grocery-delivery boy who must learn to kill, and a criminal mastermind who plots to make a fortune while dumping toxic waste near overpopulated communities... "Gomorrah" has received widespread critical acclaim. In reviewing Garrone's film based on the book, Christoph Huber wrote: "With its interest in moving beyond the categories of novel or non-fiction, Savianos work has been identified as part of a heterogeneous strain of national literature, subsumed as the New Italian Epic. A term that certainly is not disgraced by Gomorrah, the film." "Gomorrah" is a different sort of gangster ensemble film (with not many real actors) with a non linear story and a bleak look upon how the Camorra controls everything in Neaples. We get five stories that works side by side which creates a different dynamic, but yet the films holds you in its grasp for the running time. The storyline is intriguing and terrible based on the reality in Neapels. The film has as well such a great authentic look and feel, it is like looking at a documentary. It's dirty, brutal and scary. You will not see anything like it I can assure you. It is an unconventional masterpiece like someone else labeled it. See it. Trivia: Roberto Savianos book sold over 1,000,000 copies in his native Italy. Roberto Saviano got death threats from the Camorra for exposing their activities in the novel and movie, and is now permanently under police protection.

Confronting reflection on the Third World reality of Naples. It does not lecture you and accurately portrays the horror of Sevianos book.

Episodes drawn from the pages of Roberto Saviano's exposé of the Camorra crime family (from which he now needs constant police protection), laid out unblinkingly in all their harshness and violence. Little context is provided and apparently even Italian viewers needed subtitles to understand the local dialects here. Basically, we are thrown into a world focused on a tenement slum where a brutal gang war is occurring, as the young turks aim to unseat the corrupt and greedy mob bosses. There is a lot of collateral damage. Mostly, we follow kids caught up in the action, having fun modelling their behaviour on that of the men around them - and sometimes going too far. When we aren't seeing mobsters kill each other for revenge or over drug deals, we follow a subplot that reveals that the crime family also makes money by buying and illegally dumping hazardous waste (presumably for major companies). Even more than the chaotically violent hoods, the crook in this scheme is intensely amoral/immoral; when one of his truckers is burned by chemicals and they protest, he gets a bunch of 11-year-old kids to drive the trucks full of waste instead. Another subplot takes place in the fashion industry where the gang competes with the Chinese. No one with a shred of decency seems able to survive in this brutal world (yet we do see cars passing on a local highway, suggesting the real world might exist a step away, unaware or turning a blind eye to the actions here). Visceral and gripping with most of the plot arcs closed by the end but leaving the possibility that the ugly status quo continues. Later this apparently became a 온라인카지노추천 series.

I could really relate with the characters, not due to the film doing a particularly good job making you care about them but because it makes you feel trapped in a ghetto (film) with no way out. I literally paused the film three times to consider if I wanted to finish it. The film may work in the sense that it wants to make you feel uneasy and show a more realistic version of the ghetto opposed to the romanticised version we are used to, and even though the camera shots felt like they where done by one of the local crack heads it actually works and helps the films uneasy vibe. In saying this it falls short in that it doesn't do much of a job in building a bond between the characters and the audience that when they do befall their obvious fates its a feeling of indifference or even relief, but one cant be sure if it's because the film has finally ended. In short, had they made it into a 2 part series or edited it to add more back story it could have possibly been compared to 'City of God' but as it stands it falls flat.

Un nuovo, e doloroso, sguardo sulla malavita italiana. Mi piacerebbe tutto questo fosse piú fantascentifico di quello che in realtá è... ma rimane un gran bel film.

Almost documentary-like... Camera is seemingly following a period in the lives of people in Scampia, Napels, Italy. Raw movie with no pretentions.