Plemya (2014)
Genre: Crime / Drama
Duration: 130 minuten
Alternative titles: The Tribe / Плем'я
Country:
Ukraine / Netherlands
Directed by: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
Stars: Hryhoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova and Rosa Babiy
IMDb score:
6,9 (12.660)
Releasedate: 11 September 2014
Plemya plot
"Love and hate need no translation."
A deaf boy named Sergey enters a specialized boarding school. In this new place, he needs time to find his way through the school hierarchy, where crime and prostitution are commonplace. By participating in various robberies, he rises up in the organization. Then he meets Anna and falls in love. How does this end for Sergey?
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Actors and actresses
Sergei
Anya
Svetka
Gera
'King'
Makar
'Shnyr' (Flunky)
Woodwork Teacher
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Reviews & comments
arno74
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- 8700 messages
- 3342 votes
A film almost without sound and in sign language, something different. The style has some contemplative, but in terms of story it is a bit on the weak side. It is also a pity that people choose not to subtitle the film, a conscious choice, but bland since films are subtitled for the deaf, but subtitling a film in sign language for hearing people does not happen. 2.5*
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
At the start of the film, a bizarre message is sent to the viewer that all communication is through sign language, which in turn is not translated or subtitled. An unusual starting point that should be applauded from time to time. Only the film viewer becomes more of an observer who watches everything from a distance, both literally and figuratively. Because you create little feeling with the characters, you just let it all go. You don't always understand what or how something happens, but I didn't ask myself too many questions either. The strength is at the same time the weakness of the film, that's how I experienced it anyway.
I read somewhere that the starting point/experiment was to show that deaf people can have the same (immoral) behavior as others, that they are only human too. Seems kinda silly and a bad idea to me. Replace "deaf" with "blacks" and you'd hear quite a bit of the smear, and rightly so.
It does become clear when order, structure and rules fall away, the anarchist tour is taken, following the bestseller "Lord of the flies" by William Golding. Prostitution, extortion, violence, drugs ... take the upper hand.
Fairly crude or explicit film. The setting is raw, but so are the actions. Although not always literally on screen, the suggestion is strongly fed, such as that abortion or the sex scenes . The final scene is also harsh and emotionless. Also for me I found ... like a kind of voyeur who watched a bizarre mindf * ck of over 2 hours.
Those shocking scenes in no way save the film and are too cheap a way to thicken the film. For the rest it means very little and the starting point has failed. Good to have seen and experienced this approach, but that's it.
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mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
A young man joins a gang at a school for the deaf and works his way up to become one of the key figures in a formulaic crime story involving a sex overdose and some of the least convincing brawls in recent history. Got a lot of attention because there is no dialogue whatsoever, the actors communicate through sign language and there are no subtitles for those who don't understand that language. Although that earned Slaboshpytskyi a lot of praise and awards, it seems more like a gimmick to disguise the lousy level of the intended dialogues. The story is nothing more than an accumulation of clichés.
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