Gomorrah - A book and a movie, which together describe the plagues of modern Naples

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Roberto Saviano 2006 book "Gomorra" has great success in a very short time. It tells the story of organized crime to spread, through the Italian sense, however vaguely recall recurring nightmares. The book describes the activities of the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia, as the oldest criminal organization in Italy, as developed in the twenty-first century. Here, cocaine, exploiting labor,-loan usury, illegal immigrants and toxictogether to create a modern horror of biblical magnitude.

The book has sold over one million copies in Italy and has been published in numerous translations, which shows not only the Italian readers morbid interest in the subject, but also troubling parallels with many other companies that suffer the ills of modern life . It 'available in bookstores in about 50 different countries, despite the fact that it is not easily classified. This is aWork of reportage, but done in a narrative style, a sort of non-fiction novel. Saviano calls the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and Truman Capote, like his predecessors in the genre and his work to occupy a space somewhere between the two seems to be on the investigation of the corruption of the economy, on the one hand, and l ' feeling sick to bloody crime others.

The Camorra (the Neapolitan, with an accent when speaking seems the infamous biblical city) with his CalabrianNdrangheta compensation 'are not as good as the Sicilian Cosa Nostra known, and for this reason they put a great success for the industrial economy of the country. Saviano said in an interview with Fabio Fazio on Italian television that the Camorra name of their organization by its name, but speaks of "the system". The members of the 'Ndrangheta in the same way about "new thing. For them, asking their organizations, which is a bit' of their nameridiculously quaint, like calling the murder, extortion, usury, or as pedestrians name. These people see themselves as mythological figures living outside cinematic visions of a hundred movies. With this book, this courageous journalist (the victim of numerous death threats) sought to tear the covers of this secret arts, as one might pull the bandages of a wound open. He calls evil by its name, and then the Italian company dares to do somethingit.

"Gomorrah" is not only a fascinating book, so realistic that it is the most widely read book in Italian jails, is also a powerful film directed by Matteo Garrone, won the Grand Prix des Festivals in Cannes 2008 The script takes five stories from the book Roberto Saviano and interweaves dramatic. Garrone uses a mix of professional actors and amateurs who move through a labyrinth of grimy decaying housing projectsand polluting countries like going to sleep / run through this nightmare. There are fights and beatings and deep fears, and there is cocaine, to bear, it could be done with their money and a high level. And it is a murder, a lot of it. But what is most tragically illustrated what is the hope that so inflamed many of the individuals themselves, in every way possible, hoping that will inevitably be erased. The film is a burning, burning tool with a sharp edge that the imagesViewers of the brain, as Saviano's words cut to the head of the reader. Here we see the downside of modern Europe, Naples apocalyptic cries of self-inflicted pain. And 'the viewer to decide if this is really someone else's problem, or a social disease that affects all our cities, no matter how far we live from Vesuvius.

The book was published as "Gomorrah" in the United States in 2007, translated by Virginia Jewiss. The film with the same namewas shown at the Toronto Film Festival 2008 and will be distributed in North America by IFC. E 'which will be published in late 2008 or early 2009.

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