Gomorrah: The Origins - Comments & Tips

With a superb recreation of 1970s Naples, Pietro Savastano's portrayal of adolescence reflects the despair of young people living in the Secondigliano slum, aspiring to participate in the social transformation sweeping Italy. The story, which creates its own universe of characters, speaks to the hopes for the future of young people who experience death as something distant and intangible, yet to which they inevitably draw near. And this awareness of a condition that we know will not leave them, feels all the more weighty and profound.