Gomorrah

[PandaCola]

saw it last night. honestly? it bored me. I really really didn't want it to but it did, saw someone get up and walk out at one point!

lots of technically good things in it but it just lacked a, well, decent storyline. always a winner that one.

Agree 100%. Technically excellent, but I didn't care about any of the characters.

I saw Alan Clarke's Elephant on TV the other night and I feel the same about that. I get the point after about 10 minutes. Yeah it's a terrible state of affairs, yeah you're a good film maker- now do something with it.

 

[chico enrico]

saw it on saturday. the girl i was with said it's not even filmed in naples , but a suburb on the outskirts, as it would have been impossible to film anything in the real projects as the film crew would have been disrupting business and would just have been shot.

the thing i found pretty mental, that she verified was 100% accurate was the way the folk in the film walk about with guns all the time with total impunity and no attempt to conceal them.

she says you see people on the beach with guns or with them tucked down their trunks.

naples just sounds fucking mad.

 

[Refused as fuck]

naples just sounds fucking mad.

It is:

 

[STFC]

I've just orderd the book off Amazon, has anyone here read it?

Hope to see the film sometime in the next week or so.

 

[treelover]

As others have said it sounds a bit like Elephant by the great Alan Clarke, (who incidentially was born in Birkenhead, my old home area) in that 18 cold brutal murders are filmed comitted by both sides of the NI secretarian divide, riveting but no story or narrative, is Gomorrah like that?, I may wait for the DVD.

there are so many other films coming out such as The Baader Meinhof Complex by the producers of Downfall, etc.


Btw, hard to believe Elephant was shown on the BBC, would it now?

 

[PandaCola]

There are a few running stories, but film swiches between a large number of characters- so it is hard to get attached to anyone. There is no light relief at all. Sort of Elephant meets Short Cuts at the Last Exit to Brooklyn.

 

[dynamicbaddog]

saw it last night. honestly? it bored me. I really really didn't want it to but it did, saw someone get up and walk out at one point!

lots of technically good things in it but it just lacked a, well, decent storyline. always a winner that one.

I went to see it tonight and I saw a couple of people walk out halfway through too.
On the whole I did think it was a good film but it went on a bit too long and I found it difficult to follow what was going on in some parts.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Not going to read the thread in full because i'll see it on Thursday.

 

[Nixon]

It's a decent film.Saw it last week in town

 

[terrythomas]

the bit where it fell down mainly for me was that it failed to educate the viewer about the commora in any depth at all, an opportunity missed. i've since read about it and now understand why they had the seperate stories they had in the film but surely it was the perfect opportunity to explain the situation there in an understandable way.

something i hadn't realised is that its a neo realism film - ie about as real as you can get it, hand held cameras and no actors just people from the estate where it was shot. technically as a concept its great just a lack of storyline. maybe that won't bother some though.

 

[Dillinger4]

I saw it tonight.

I don't really know if I have any strong thoughts about it, to be honest. It was alright.

 

[Upchuck]

Saw it on the weekend. Nasty little flick I totally enjoyed

 

[STFC]

I saw it last night and still haven't made my mind up whether I liked it or not. I got into it more teh longer it went on, but as others have already stated the makers appear to have sacrificed a decent storyline for gritty realism.

I'm hoping the book will tell me more about the Camorra.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

I watched this film last night and it was complete pants - nothing like what I expected.

I wasn't expecting the foolishness of a Brit flick gangster film like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but it was a just a series of chaotic scenes in which amateur actors ad-libbed. I felt nothing for the characters suffering or had any perspective whatsoever on the poverty and crime they were a part of.

It's the sort of film Butchers salivates over and what call a classic but it was a missed opportunity

 

[dtb]

strange, i don't think i've met anyone who has said it's a bad film yet. i thought it was great. loved the way in which the different characters were intertwined in the story, it was shot in a unique style also

 

[butchersapron]

I watched this film last night and it was complete pants - nothing like what I expected.

I wasn't expecting the foolishness of a Brit flick gangster film like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but it was a just a series of chaotic scenes in which amateur actors ad-libbed. I felt nothing for the characters suffering or had any perspective whatsoever on the poverty and crime they were a part of.

It's the sort of film Butchers salivates over and what call a classic but it was a missed opportunity

Not at all, i thought it was nothing special, decent, well made but with no special insight or story to tell, the critics went totally overboard. There have been lots of films made about crime, about the mafia or the Camorra or whatever in this down to eath, almost social realist style (for parts of it anyway, the violence tended to be highly stylised iirc) in Italy (and loads in south amercia as well) yet it was presented as breaking the mould in some way, rather than being part of a long tradition. Good film, nothing amazing.