Confesso, as much as I loved Gomorra – The series (especially in its first wonderful seasons), as much as I have confidence in the seriality signed Sky always the best in Italy, when I knew about the hypothesis to realize the prequel of Gomorra I felt a sense of discomfort towards what I feared could be a fall of the Sky seriality. A way to yield to commercial and popular logics lawful and legitimate but not consistent with what has been done so far.
A lack of undeserved trust, as the vision of the six bets confirmed me. Gomorra – Although the origins were born, as Sky leaders admitted, for a commercial need given the requests received in Italy abroad to carry out the Gomorra brand, found an autonomous road, finishing to be the prequel but also a perfect autonomous series. Another unfair danger was to be in front of a romance, Young Adult on the outskirts of Naples at the end of the 1970s. Imma there is, the relationship between Imma and Peter is present, but it is not crucial to what can be the dive into the crime of the young Peter, a child raised alone, without family that sees in Angelo in Sirena, his point of reference in life.
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Gomorra – The origins remain, so, a gangster drama but adds a coming-of-age to a suburb of Italy as the Secondigliano of the 1970s where the only hope is to survive hoping for a miracle, whether it is crime or football. No one is born a ruthless criminal, it is the circumstances, the environment that makes you such. Peter is an introverted child, alone, who made his silences, his ability to observe, his strength. It is not of course beautiful or sympathetic, as can be his companions of adventures, but it is constant and present, a boy who is learning to move in a reality that he does not know.
The attention to detail that is typical of Sky seriality, we also find it in Gomorra – The origins. Every single feature of the characters has its own connection with what will be in the future, as adults, in the ruthless world we know. Angelo ‘in Sirena, halfway between the Dandy and the Libanese of Romanzo Criminale, is a small boss who wants to make himself big and who sees in Peter the younger brother he never had.
Despite being only six episodes (a format that meets modern production needs but that always ends up compressing and choking the story) the TV series manages to build characters with which it is easy to get in tune, that they make themselves love and hate with a gesture and a look. In Gomorra – The origins are strong the component of the analysis of society and the differences that follow it. Secondigliano is a suburb divided by one road: on the one hand there are the shops, on the other the barracks, on the one hand there is a petty bourgeoisie, on the other the last. Crime is not a choice but the only possibility in a territory where even those who try to stay away, even the bourgeoisie, ends up having a connection with that world.
Gomorra – The origins are as ruthless as Gomorra was, for this roughness, bringing back the seriality of Sky. A return to the origins to that search for a unique and unconformed seriality, able to stand out and create unique characters that can only be found in this context. The final scenes, only seemingly avulse to the rest, which serve to collect fiction with the reality of history, are a concentrate of power, madness and acting perfection. Gomorra – The origins are a TV series in which one perceives love for writing and for the desire to build a story, a world a universe, without basing itself on algorithmic formulations. The viewer should not be caressed, but he must be slapped to awaken from the numbness we are getting more and more accustomed to. Not only but with this series Sky returns to the origins, looking for new faces and actors to work with.
Despite being far from the artistic perfection of M – The son of the Century or the art of joy, Gomorra – The origins, in his being in some way more popular and less elitist, is at the same time a perfect product of his kind. Gomorra – The origins are not to be missed
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