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The title is a play on Camorra, a certain Italian mafia organization that I have never heard about. It's a hyperlink story, you know, that kind made famous by Crash which in turn spawned so many other movies with similar styles, most of them quite good. All of them, somehow, seem to follow an implicit formula. If you've watched enough of these kind of shows, you'll be able to predict the story.
Gomorra lacks the punch that most of these hyperlink stories have - most of which comes from the climax and the denouement. Despite not having both of these elements, it still is a decent story. But boy, is it tiring to watch people getting capped, people talking, people getting capped ad nauseum. But kudos to the filmmakers for portraying the mafia in a perhaps more realistic way. This is no Godfather. The Dons live in run down apartments and and are unshaved and unkempt. This is the Italy that they don't show you in those tourist advertisements. Yes, Europe has its dark, murky underworld too.
Gomorra lacks the punch that most of these hyperlink stories have - most of which comes from the climax and the denouement. Despite not having both of these elements, it still is a decent story. But boy, is it tiring to watch people getting capped, people talking, people getting capped ad nauseum. But kudos to the filmmakers for portraying the mafia in a perhaps more realistic way. This is no Godfather. The Dons live in run down apartments and and are unshaved and unkempt. This is the Italy that they don't show you in those tourist advertisements. Yes, Europe has its dark, murky underworld too.
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