Marco D’Amore: «The protagonists are masks and I play a black Harlequin». Salvatore Esposito: «Maradona came to congratulate me; Diego, are you going crazy? “
More than a war it is a crusade: but what is the right part? Gomorrah, in its fifth season, it closes. From November 19 for ten episodes on Sky and streaming on Now. Gennaro tried to clean up and build an honest life, Ciro had sacrificed himself to allow him to. He almost succeeded… It’s the final battle between the two of them, the showdown. The cult series sold in 193 countries, immersed in contemporaneity, which launched unknown talents, daughter of Criminal novel, was born from the novel by Roberto Saviano. As a boy he used to ride that Vespa that he can no longer drive, to Naples and Scampia, to tell “power, violence”, a “more complex” reality than the story of the crime of his land. And today to decipher the bullets of any suburb, “in Corsica or in the Philippines, in Mexico or in Brazil”, the magic word is Gomorrah. Ciro and Genny, the knife “brothers” who loved and hated each other, protagonists of this choral story, have entered the imagination, the same moderator at the presentation gets stuck more than once and thus calls the actors who play them, Marco D ‘Amore (who also shares the direction with Claudio Cupellini) and Salvatore Esposito.
There is a before and an after Gomorrah
, they tell Sky. The saga closes “at the height of success,” they add. But no one clearly explains why: did absolute Evil also risk becoming the stereotype of itself? Instead, we think broadly, by archetypes, Greek tragedy and Shakespeare echo: here too, as they say in an episode, the dead return like a nightmare. Producer Riccardo Tozzi: «It is the creation of a world». He says that the choice of the Neapolitan dialect, based on synthesis and icasticity, “involved the transformation of the way of writing dialogues”. The latest series also condenses excerpts from trials, wiretapping, custody orders, eyewitness accounts. A live story. The co-writer Leonardo Fasoli, to understand how things work, had taken a tour of Secondigliano: «I stopped five people at random, on the street, and I asked: have you seen a murder? Yes, all five of them answered me ». Bets full of phrases carved like an epitaph are there to remind us that everything revolves around trust and betrayal: “Even a mistake in good faith becomes unforgivable”; “Trust is a weakness that I cannot afford”; “Justice is an evil of God”. And here the inevitable chapter on the risk of emulation opens. Roberto Saviano: “The presence of the State is an interference, it is articulated from the criminal point of view, which in the post Covid is making huge investments … No one has become a criminal seeing Gomorrah“. Salvatore Esposito, a second first happy to reveal the compliment of his god (“Maradona stopped me to congratulate; Diego, are you crazy?”) Rejects that there are no arrests.
And Marco D’Amore: “We are not the example, they have it in front of their eyes, where the state does not exist.” “But his absence is in schools and at work, that is the assumption that generates the monster,” adds Tozzi. Women? Sometimes a bargaining chip, as in royal weddings; other times strong figures, who do not shirk their destiny and “do not become victims, being Genny’s wife is already a sentence”, affirms Ivana Lotito. Consolation, for Saviano, «is impossible, the protagonists are already defeated, they know it themselves. Nobody thinks they can do it. ” In the language of criminals, like a western by Leone, everything is slow, the movements, the gestures, speak to each other «nose to nose, eye to eye to block the view», says Saviano. Everything is ritual, metaphor, mask: is Ciro a black Harlequin? “Yes, the mask is a sum of behaviors, and I’ve always wanted to disappear into roles,” says D’Amore. At 18 he left Caserta, from the bullies who became sheriffs of evil. “Gomorrah it made him relive his prejudices: “He also improved me as a man, he gave me more understanding for those who have made choices different from mine.”
November 15, 2021 (change November 16, 2021 | 07:16)
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