Friday, December 24, 2010

Gomorrah

**Spoiler Alert**
Gomorrah is a gritty drama that resembles a documentary.  If you like documentary then it's fine.  But if you prefer glam up over stylized movie then perhaps it's not really for you.  The characters are ordinary ugly looking boys and guys just like you and me, maybe just me.  There aren't any Hollywood stars, so no lookers to look at.  Its anti-Hollywood aesthetic is its only aesthetic.  It's like since we don't have Brad Pitt or George Clooney we might as well just use the ugliest looking guys around.  I especially like the touch of playing a Teresa Tang's Xiao chen gu shi.  It just proves the fact that whenever there's Chinese there's Teresa Tang's songs, even in someing some god forsaken slum in the middle of nowhere in Naples or somewhere in southern Italy.  I will go on to suggest mandating every movie depicting Chinese should have a Teresa Tang's song in it.  It just makes the movie better.  In the end a couple of gangsters wanna be kids died a horrendous death, their bodies got chucked away by a bulldozer, just like some illegal toxic waste disposal also depicted in the movie.  It was done as a matter of fact without glamor without mercy just like the way life is.

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