At other times, people live cautiously: gang accountants walk around to distribute "living expenses" and act as plumbers from time to time; embarrassed garment factory owners; desperate tailors teaching Chinese people to transfer to other places; drug lords' errands Dumping drug waste everywhere; the young man with the occasional conscience turned away because he wasn't too caught up in it.
In terms of theme, violence is unavoidable; in terms of style, the tradition of neorealism is the inevitable destination of this Italian film. The embarrassment, helplessness and despair of the characters in the film, we have already seen in classic films such as "The Bicycle Thief" and "Tears in the Wind", and some clips of the tailor in the film actually remind me of Jia Zhangke's films, of course, Jia Zhangke can be regarded as Inherited the "new realism".
The tailor's career in the film is considered the most normal, and while I was watching it, I was wondering how he would participate in Gomorrah's "mainstream life" in the future. And the footage of him and the Chinese businessman being shot reminds us: In Gomorrah, you have no right to choose, you are already deep in the whirlpool. He survived the disaster, and eventually changed his career to become a truck driver; one night in a bar, he looked up at the TV, Scarlett Johansson was walking on the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival, and she was wearing a dress, It's the work of the previous tailor...
This surreal clip suddenly blurs the audience's distinction between reality and fantasy: the bright red carpet over there and the inexplicable killing here, which is more real and which is more illusory ? The ending of the film is more silent than sound: on the beach in the evening (no longer the romantic Mediterranean sand), the bodies of two impulsive teenagers are thrown into the bulldozer and lifted, and now they are with the insignificant mud and sand. The same, about to be abandoned everywhere but no one cares anymore...
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