di Maurizio Braucci
Prima di "Gomorra", già per i film "Terra di mezzo" e "L'imbalsamatore", Matteo Garrone aveva girato in altre aree difficili della Campania, mosso da una forte determinazione ad approfondire i mondi che intendeva raccontare. Con il film tratto dal bestseller di Roberto Saviano, Garrone ha continuato un metodo di lavorazione che gli è proprio, anche se questa volta con un progetto più complesso. La fase di preparazione di "Gomorra" è durata tre mesi ed è stata caratterizzata dalla ricerca di luoghi e dalla apertura di canali di connessione che permettessero di ambientare il film negli stessi territori raccontati dal romanzo. Nel quartiere This led to employment Scampia film for nearly two months, one of the buildings of Sails, the yellow, but without the usual protection of the police.
The success of this extremely realistic goal had a number of reasons, from people, and I quote here the photographer Mario Spada, the members of the association "About Roma ... and who does not" Arrevuoto and those in the design stage, who have mediated with the inhabitants. It is true that until the day before would not have been possible, due to the presence of the squares of a drug ring, enter one of the sails, so as sure as the day on which there has been given to the first take, that vast and notorious building has been transformed into something amazing. Were some of the inhabitants, including the drug dealers themselves, to accept in exchange for Garrone and his involvement as actors or as suppliers of their homes for the set.
course, 30 years to resolve the contradictions do not a movie, and if the shop is still kept 'a bit more in there "during the filming, at one point appeared also Camorra boss, that is, those splits which had won the war against the Di Lauro in 2005 and who were on the lips of many local youths. "The division" was in fact a sound applicant and the memory of that war was a myth or a nightmare for the inhabitants of Scampia, the film tells the story and everyone has finished to put a piece of his experience. At first there was fear of the locations for the project with the name of Saviano but soon it became clear that that caution was unnecessary. Saviano in Scampia was so criticized, but not hated. A young man who had fought in the system told me that 'Camorra Many pride themselves on being mentioned in the book and then he's got the real problem with the Casalesi. On the eve of shooting, where the Camorra have come to learn, have received word for word the report of the situation, and simply felt more convenient to leave it to the point that some of them were to wander onto the set. There were also tense moments, like when Lot P, as he was ready to turn, access was suddenly banned by drug dealers. Or when the butcher who had been asked the store as a set, before a change of program director, however, protested vigorously and was threatened by some extras for the film. Yet, employment Scampia film has had so many positive aspects, starting with the fact that the crew could see how many good people there lived in a hostage degradation tolerated by the institutions. The sets were always outside chance of curiosity and debate, sometimes heated because someone claimed to know better than another; the crowds of children were from continuous background, and often their irrepressibly had to repeat some or scene has become the scapegoat of the nervousness of the adults. For this reason the operators of "Who rom .. and who is not" were constantly busy off the set to organize games for them. And, again, Joseph, eight years, waiting for the crew to finish turn in the apartment of his parents, wrote on the wall "I live in a movie." In fact, during those weeks the reality and fiction are confused. Daniel and Dalia, hairdresser and make-up of the set, during breaks is often found to redo the look of the sails and the young, the abundance of talk, you understood how precious break the social isolation in which they were held.
Even misunderstandings abounded: addicts, unconscious, slipped often among the extras in a scene of drug dealing. Once an actor to tell him he had to chase one who had received gypsum and coca. Before shooting the scene where the kids lead the Roma Tir - which they did for real, being early for drivers - Toni Servillo Garrone explained that he was the fixer who paid them to let him make the transport of toxic waste and, in fact, the end of the shoot, the ones they really wanted to go Servillo to get their money. The scene at the mouth of the Volturno, where Marco and try Pisellino weapons, has been characterized by an accident: the boat that explodes, in fact, does so at the wrong time, surprising the same actor who was shooting at that time. The astonishment on his face you see is real, and as someone said, is the symbol of the wonder with which the world of Garrone's film "Gomorrah."
Today, after more than two years after the shooting, the yellow sail is almost entirely uninhabited and in a state of further deterioration. Many families have moved in the residence assigned by the city, others are gone. The movement of children is not so vibrant, there remain very few who are around when it's hot in diapers and no shoes in the corridors immortalized by the movie, climbing on the railings to dizzying heights. The association "About Roma ... and who is not" occupied housing, transforming it into a playroom. The space is now full of color, has a painted decoration on the walls from the boys and they will wander like a dream home. From Germany, where they saw the movie and found the neighborhood, three young artists moved to Scampia and are filling up with giant floral designs sides of Sails. The remainder of the lots in the notorious, nothing has changed, poverty and human misery have remained the same.
(from the Express October 14, 2009)
