A very insightful and believable look into the Naples Mafia. Gomorra is filmed with a very realistic style, with no glamour à la Godfather, and the cast of unknowns helps in making this movie feel more like a documentary than a film.
Several stories either intertwine or run parallel to each other, but the underlying message of desperation and inevitability is recurring. If you are part of the Gomorra, you can reap the financial benefits, but your life belongs to the boss that runs the clan you are a part of. Your existence is inextricably connected to the needs of the family.
And if you’re not an insider, then you are just someone who needs to do his or her job, with their heads held low and their mouths kept shut. If you have to pay, you pay, and if you have to give something up, you just do it without asking questions.
Furthermore, you have no power over the decisions that the boss might make about your destiny, no matter how long you served him or what you gave up for the Gomorra. You can try to put up a wall around you, but sooner or later, you’ll have to bend. Or you will break.
At times heartbreaking, it is most definitely worthy of all the accolades it collected among critics and award circles.
Grade: 8
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