Review of Gomorrah (2008) by Art S — 17 Mar 2018

I could really relate with the characters, not due to the film doing a particularly good job making you care about them but because it makes you feel trapped in a ghetto (film) with no way out. I literally paused the film three times to consider if I wanted to finish it.

The film may work in the sense that it wants to make you feel uneasy and show a more realistic version of the ghetto opposed to the romanticised version we are used to, and even though the camera shots felt like they where done by one of the local crack heads it actually works and helps the films uneasy vibe. In saying this it falls short in that it doesn't do much of a job in building a bond between the characters and the audience that when they do befall their obvious fates its a feeling of indifference or even relief, but one cant be sure if it's because the film has finally ended.

In short, had they made it into a 2 part series or edited it to add more back story it could have possibly been compared to 'City of God' but as it stands it falls flat.