"Gomorra" tells the story of an Italian town, where more or less everybody is in some way connected or affected by the criminal actions of the large mafia families and clans that control the economy and politics, the wealth and the lives of many average citizens. It shows the topic through different perspectives, the one of younger ones trying to adopt as well as the one of people for whom this lifestyle has long ago become normality.
There's no such thing as a main character in this movie, rather it tries to enable an understanding for the topic by making the audience familiar with the very individual reasons for becomig a part of the system. The production looks professional, the acting is convincing and all in all the film manages to avoid the all too familiar iconic Images with which the mafia is regularly described in especially American movies. Because there is no-one to follow around, in the end the thrill is maybe missing a bit because there's not a seperated plot to follow. However you get a sense for how the clans can work so well in this particular region and why not taking part in them can be both tough and dangerous.
All in all a more realistic and sensitive mafia movie, that avoids just copying the godfather and takes a more sociological point of view. Not necessarily something for fans of gun fights and heroic clan families, more something for people who want to explore the functionalism of the mafia.
There's no such thing as a main character in this movie, rather it tries to enable an understanding for the topic by making the audience familiar with the very individual reasons for becomig a part of the system. The production looks professional, the acting is convincing and all in all the film manages to avoid the all too familiar iconic Images with which the mafia is regularly described in especially American movies. Because there is no-one to follow around, in the end the thrill is maybe missing a bit because there's not a seperated plot to follow. However you get a sense for how the clans can work so well in this particular region and why not taking part in them can be both tough and dangerous.
All in all a more realistic and sensitive mafia movie, that avoids just copying the godfather and takes a more sociological point of view. Not necessarily something for fans of gun fights and heroic clan families, more something for people who want to explore the functionalism of the mafia.