Best movie of this year hands down!

Memorable, crazy movie

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

When I started watching this movie I thought "Well, the director is Garrone and the movie is set in Naples, so it must be a copy of Gomorrah or something like that". Instead I was surprised of how Garrone nicely brought up another aspect of Naples and its inhabitants. The setting is a poor neighborhood in the Italian port city and the main character is Luciano, a fishmonger and father of two children. His daily life is ordinary and uneventful and he struggles to earn money through his first job and his second one which consists in cheating people by selling them some cleaning devices. Everything could change when he has the opportunity to participate to the Big Brother rehearsals where he can exploit his qualities as entertainer. His certainty of making it to the show is so strong that he becomes paranoid about people of the Big Brother casting staff spying on him to see if he's really a character as he claims to be in everyday life. He does many crazy things like selling his fishmonger activity and doling out his personal belongings to poor people in order to impress the alleged casting personnel following him. His mental condition soon worsens and develops into craziness which of course affects inevitably his family life. What I liked best about this movie is how Garrone underlines how miserable everyday life can be and how everyone is in search of the big opportunity to get out of misery. This however can lead to ruining personal and family life. I also appreciated how the director shows how some feelings and actions can be so evidently false as that of Luciano of being overly generous with poor people only for personal purposes. One last thing I would like to mark is Garrone's style of shooting, which was quite like that of Gomorrah, that's very simple and with seemingly amateur close shootings. Compared to Gomorrah however I would say that he wanted to give a more dreamy touch and also something Fellinesque: in one scene Luciano comes back home from the Big Brother rehearsal in Rome and, in the beautifully lit neighborhood, he's welcomed by his neighbors as a hero. In the next scene the neighborhood is showed in daytime during its normal daily activity, presenting all its simplicity and misery. Therefore an evident contrast is shown between dream and reality.

As terms indicate, and none but few even among the intelligentzia had foreseen, the virtual reality sold by mass communication has had an awesome capability to interpenetrate with «reality», going beyond any prediction. To the extent that by antonomasia «reality» became the most common synonym for «reality show». Ambigous by choice, the title of this film can then mean one or another thing: does it refer to a kind of TV production, reality shows, or to «reality»? Perhaps following the story will uncover the answer to this, however, realities, initially said to be to reflect reality, have then significantly shaped the latter (just as social networks are shaping society injecting virtuality into it, rather than being a mere reproduction of society on a virtual dimension). Perhaps by now reality and realities are one new mixed entity, and not discernible anymore.It is for a good part of it a decent film, with patently low-budget actors giving their all, non-cheap irony, raising with due discretion a contemporary crucial sociological problem, perhaps the main one: the seemingly limitless influence of mass media on the very lives of masses. The ending is well done, and mention-worthy for beauty are end credits.

Reality is a wonderfully drawn film that showcases the obsessive behavior of a guy destined (in his own mind) to take the prize on Italy's 'Big Brother.' Not a new premise by any stretch, and always difficult to watch. He basically throws his life, the life of his family, and his own sanity out the window for a stupid reality TV show, before needing the proper motivation to fight his way back.That being said it is a story of flawed characters. Of which we are all. So I tried very hard to get over my general distaste of the main character's actions and maneuvers to enjoy the story that was being told. Direction and cinematography are top notch. Simply exquisite. The non stop sweeping camera made my knees weak at times...and I simply loved the title treatment at the end of the film. Probably even gained it another star simply because it made me smile on my way out the door.But when all is said and done we find our characters, and in many ways ourselves, left exactly as we were to begin with, nothing learned, nothing lost, and definitely nothing ultimately gained.

Reality is a fitting title about a man who totally lost it (his own sense of reality).Part satire, part a comic-tragic portrait of our world with its vanities our hero is just an everyday guy who is a fishmonger, and like many others has a souse, children with all that goes with it.His world is shaken when following a brief performance in a wedding reception he becomes acquainted with a celebrity and the desire is born in him that he can be part of this world, the world of stardom, wealth and recognition.So by making use of this brief acquaintance he enters a competition to join big brother and does so in the certainty it will be his passport to fame and fortune. The contact with fame though ludicrously brief it is enough to cause him a great deal of harm.The harm came in the form of obsessive behaviour, paranoia and hallucination causing a loss of his own self awareness and disregard for all those around him.A charmer of a movie about vanity, obsession and a surrounding culture that feeds us these kind of fake feelings and desires.