Gomorrah is an acute example of the importance, power and necessity of cinema in contemporary society. Its representation of the various different facets of life in the world of organised crime in Naples, Italy is bleak, realistic and unsympathetic. This naturally makes for difficult viewing but it is precisely for this reason that Gomorrah is so admirable and essential viewing for anyone with an interest in film beyond mindless escapism. Such subject matter should make for uncomfortable watching because the corruption, murder and exploitation depicted in the film is really happening today. Indeed the author of the ‘based upon novel’ is now in hiding because a contract has been put out for his life due his uncompromised highlighting of such issues.
Comparisons have been made to City of God in the way the glamorous image of the gangster is de-romanticised and brought down to street level. However the absence of heavily stylistic movie conventions and characters to ‘root-for’ elevates Gomorrahabove the former; by giving an added level of sincerity which the subject matter surely deserves.
Not a date-movie but there are few films nobler to devote a few pounds toward and which will inspire such raw admiration of cinema.
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