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 The debut of Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, this movie has been making the rounds for the last year and is due to have a limited release stateside this month. Unsure how many here have seen it, or are planning to, but I thought it merited a thread to find out as it's a fairly remarkable piece of work by any measure. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xboxgEm-ucU IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1745787/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Rottentomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_tribe_2015/ The plot is rather simple and rather worn: New kid arrives at boarding school, discovers student-run gang, gets inducted, falls for girl. What is interesting that the kid, and indeed everyone in the school, is deaf. The actors (who are not actors) speak in sign language, the dialogue is not captioned, and it falls to us to piece together motivations for events as they come. What is more interesting is that this neither overshadows nor inhibits the narrative, which is set against the backdrop of an impoverished Ukraine and is one of the most relentlessly bleak portrayals I've come across in cinema. Be warned that this is a very graphic movie.  I'm not certain how much I actually like the film, and in fact if I did end up liking it then that would be a little worrying given what takes place onscreen, but I haven't been as impressed by anything in recent years as I have with this. tirinal fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Is the movie designed around the viewer being unable to fully understand what's going on, or will I be totally lost if I don't somehow pick up Ukrainian sign language while watching? At no point are you ever really confused about what is going on; the plot is simple enough. The deafness thing is what people tunnel in on, but it's not really a pretentious hipster gimmick. It's just something the director did because dialogue wasn't particularly necessary for what he wanted to show onscreen and as a homage to silent films. tirinal fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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