Movie 666

By Demon

It’s strange when you think about it. A movie that shows the Mafia in an unflattering light.

Huh?

Challenging the lionized portraits of the Goodfellas and Godfathers, Gomorra is being touted as the real deal, showing us the inglorious life of the poor and criminal in modern day Italy.

Presumably there are no lines like, “Say hello to my little friend” or “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”

Sounds suspicious.

Gommora is also a hyperlink movie along the lines of Babel and Syriana with several interwoven character arcs of equal precedence.

Perhaps Gomorra should be seized at the border. Not by the mob, but by the government. I mean, what if people in this country (the U.S.A.) started thinking that gangsters weren’t cool?

Bankers would be without role models.

Rappers would run out of lyrics.

Martin Scorsese would be out of a job, forced to sell his eyebrow hair to cruelty-free furriers.

Whatever you do, don’t see Gomorra. Your illusions might depend on it.

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Tags:babel, crime, gangster movie, gangsters, gomorra, goodfellas, hypercinema, hyperlink, italian, italy, mafia, syriana, the godfather

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