I think if there was ever a film that proved in some way that life imitated art it would be Gomorrah. The film doesn’t follow any simple plot structure which can be nice, but also hard to follow and without even knowing the background events of the Commora you seem to realize that somehow you’re dealing with the simplicity of a gangster movie, this is the real deal.
We follow the gangsters, the Gomorra, we follow the women and children in the neighborhood, and that’s all the film does, it follows. It doesn’t try to impose some theme of violence because although the violence is shown, repeatedly, it’s just there as simple as the air we breathe. In fact, it seems to be more like the fact that the films influence the gangsters than the gangsters influence the film. When shooting men shout something along the lines of “I’m Tony Montana!” (from Scarface) and I did hear someone in the film mention the classic woman with a gun film, La Femme Nikkita.
So as they always say people seem to identify themselves by what they see in films does Gomorrah and it’s characters seem to likely to model themselves or find themselves in these classic mobster or gangster stories? I’m saying this more as a question because I’m honestly not sure. Try finding an American gangster film that would show more around the men of the mob who instead of focusing and idealizing one new hero (see Goodfellas, The Godfather, White Heat, etc.) focuses on a wide scope of people in this world from their day to day lives. In The Godfather it’s one strong plot-driven business but in Gomorrah I had a hard time following what exactly they’re entire plot was or if it was just the fact that they had their fingers in a lot of pies. I don’t know. Do you?
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