It is undeniable that the theme of the film "Gamola" has a profound expansibility. The film is based on a best-selling novel. The novel is based on the Italian Mafia organization. Due to its sensitive subject matter, it has also been threatened and warned by local gangs. Therefore, making this movie has a certain degree of danger, but it also increases its excavability and space for speculation. Under such pressure and temptation, the film's director Matteo still chose to be faithful to the original to start the film. His courage and courage is admirable. But courage and courage alone may not necessarily make a good movie, at least for me.
There are as many as five screenwriters including the original author. Although there are doubts about the degree of faithfulness to the original, or it is this kind of screenwriter team that makes the whole film have a great advantage in the refining of the theme. , The selection of the subject matter can be said to be condensed and solid. At the same time, precisely because of the creative fit between the director and the screenwriter, this film has a very deliberate trace.
In the film, director Matteo deliberately breaks time and space, using multiple stories interspersed and misplaced, independent of chapters, to show a social landscape of Naples under the influence of the dark forces. This kind of layout is not uncommon in movie shooting. Obviously, the director of this film did his homework on this layout. However, due to the lack of precision in grasping the structure, the transition of each connection point appears rough and not smooth enough. On the contrary, People can't grasp the context. It was originally a different social landscape in a big background, but it is easy for people to have the illusion of dislocation, which makes this perspective space farther away from the audience.
Although this ingenious construction method is not self-defeating, it cannot be said to be a pity. Throughout the whole movie, it gives people a very unclear look and feel. The ingestion of some life scenes seems to be dispensable, and there is a certain gap between the theme and the theme of the movie. I think, if it were not for the subtitles at the end of the play, few people would know what the movie said. Although the film has a neo-realistic color, it does not seem to make up for the film's shortcomings in structural construction.
Avoiding the overall perception, the film is deliberate and ingenious in the performance of each story. In the film, the venues where the story takes place are narrow, dim, or messy, and even the space of the "junkyard" is limited in view. This kind of point rather than face perspective makes people feel cramped and panicked. The words revealed by the camera are also completed in each node, and these words are both revealed and hidden. The unrest and chaos caused by the competition of the underworld forces in the community, the lives of two teenagers who grew up in the underworld atmosphere came to an abrupt end, and the revealed words were ejected in a short gunshot. And those hidden words use the departure of scrap company Robottor and designer Pasquale as the finishing touch. After "The Godfather", there are still countless "Godfathers".
These 137 minutes are a deliberate but specious conspiracy of a filmmaker. Although the plot structure is not to my appetite, the photography, sound effects and scheduling in the film are quite skillful. I do not agree with the "skills and subtlety" in some comments. On the contrary, I think the film is not as good as "Blessed City" in realism, and inferior to "Slumdog Millionaire" in terms of social thinking. Slightly insufficient in depth. However, it has been able to win several awards in the film world, and I think it is also considered a success.
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