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stories of mafia members, from capo to soldier, all linked by a tie to a massive tenement in Naples, Italy.
No superstars like DeNiro, Pacino, Duval, Brando, et al, to romanticize what are venomous, cold-blooded killers.
I won't mention any specifics except to say that many principals are real Camorra members (the title plays off the org name) and that death threats have kept the author and director somewhat underground, with police protection.
The problem with The Godfather and other Hollywood modern depictions of mafiosi is their, perhaps unintended but still obvious, glorification of these scum. Major, handsome actors who triumph over their competitors, often portrayed as somehow more moral, less venal and murderous. Why, they kill just to help their own family members or out of self-preservation or because they're moral--- they don't believe in selling drugs!
It's very, very similar to how rape used to be filmed in Hollywood films, in a titillating way that had the opposite effect of making male viewers become horrified.
It's time Scorsese (who surprisingly helped produce this film) and Coppola were held responsible for their self-indulgent films. They have done a generation of Italian-Americans a world of disservice.
And... GO see "Gamorrah."
You'll want to see it twice, like me.
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Nothing redeeming about these characters at all and a real telling of a bleak and empty bit of existence....this is what I've always thought of when I see mafia films but could never put a word to it until seeing Gomorrah. An excellent bit of film making.
Also it was so real it was 'real' IYKWIM.
J.B.
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Apparently, the title is a play on the Camorrah crime family, and an allusion to ancient Gomorrah of "Sodom and Gomorrah" fame . . . cities known for decadent behavior.I thought it was extraordinary, and tuneout liked it as well (see discussion linked below, or just search and scroll down).
But I've moved on. Go see Sin Nombre . . . another fantastic movie.
Edits: 04/12/09
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Thanks for the comments and the link.
J.B.
then deleted my post...just because I argued with the "won't see a better film this year" and I certainly liked Sin Nombre better, as well as one other- and the year is young. And I deleted it, so as not to argue. But Sin Nombre was, as I wrote below, exceptional.
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