Gomorra didn't do it for me. Very powerful subject matter, but told badly. I'd have to compare it to something like The Wire, which does something similar for the slums of Baltimore, but with far more punch - it has deep painted characters. Gomorrah fails to make you relate with its charactors. When one guy walks away from it all, I don't care. When some people die, I don't care. There's great potential there, but it's not fulfilled. I expect the book is far better.
I have to side with mikhail on this one. Just saw
Gomorra. It has some interesting elements in the neo-realism style. Even if it is five barely-connected stories. But each of the vignettes, while painting a picture of what it does to a community, failed to resonate with me as a person. About the most conflicted I got in the story was when Totò was forced to decide between his old friends and new friends. But nothing was allowed to go deep enough for me to connect enough with it.
Whereas I liked
Slumdog Millionaire even if I thought it paled in comparison to
City of God,
Slumdog was better put together and told a better (even if far from realist) story than
Gomorra. I just couldn't get into any of its characters.
Maybe not like
Sex, Lies, and Videotape..., which earned rave reviews and yet I couldn't stand because I thought all the characters were pathetic losers that should all be killed. But I felt nothing, positive or negative, in
Gomorra when these people were killed.
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