Gangster, Gangster

Comparing the characters from Gomorrah to some from movies like The Godfather is very different.  In Gomorrah gangsters are shown as tasteless and ruthless thugs.  They dress in American brand t-shirts and sweat pants and kill whoever they must to make sure their plan unfold as they want them to.  They are fat and greasy, just generally unpleasant.

Characters in The Godfather portray gangsters in a different way.  Most of them are slim and clean cut; they wear suits and handle business in a much more organized way then their Gomorrah counter parts.  The Godfather makes them out to be family men.  Their actions, no matter how gruesome, are always somehow justified, like Michael's plan to execute all of the other rival families’ leaders.  By the end of the movie you are almost rooting for him to commit mass murder.  Gomorrah is not like this.  The film does not romanticize the role of a gangster.  They do not have a glories end like Tony Montana did in Scarface.  

     

We need to remember that gangsters are gangsters, and that movies are movies.  There is nothing pretty about organized crime.  You do not end up at the top of your game defending your mansion from enemy drug dealers; instead you end up floating face down in a river after being executed on your hands and knees like some kind of animal.  Gomorrah is a film you should show any fan-boy wanna-be of movies like Scarface.  It is the kind of movie that acts as a wakeup call.  It counters the images and ideas we are fed by mainstream films about gangsters and the mob.  We make everything look so good in Hollywood films; it is kind of crazy if you think about it.  I mean what is next?  Making rapists and child molesters out to be the good guys?