In 2014, a young Ukrainian director personally wrote and directed his screen debut. This movie turned out like a thunderstorm, breaking all language and text restrictions, making countless audiences and industry insiders shocked, criticism and controversy flooded in, but praises like "ghosts" also There is no end to the ears, and there are countless awards. This miracle is a purely sign language drama crime film directed by Miloslav "The Tribe. This newcomer to the film industry seems fearless. This 130-minute film has no dialogue, no subtitles, no narration, no soundtrack, only sign language, only body. All the actors invited are amateurs without professional training. The equipment is purely hand-held, and the film is large-scale. Bullying, stealing, robbery, sex, prostitution, abortion, violence and bloody death are all-encompassing, and all are limited to no more than forty years. Combination of lenses. The whole process of watching made me very restless: the silent hustle and bustle, the silent violence, and the excessively monotonous and lengthy rhythmic control, made me stick my head to change my breath every time I dived a little, otherwise it would almost suffocate. The film tells the experience of a transfer student after entering a school for the deaf and dumb (but its setting really made me think that this is a parallel universe with only sign language communication, which may be deliberately misled by the director). In the first few minutes, everything is in order, the school is operating under the rules, but at this time the audience may still be fidgeting with the discomfort of not being able to understand sign language. After finally getting used to it, the plot has given the innocent audience a lot of attention. hit. (A malicious art film! I feel like I can hear the director clamoring: drive these outsiders away from the audience!) The get out of class bell rang. To be precise, after the get out of class lights came on, the teacher exited. All the dark and ugly things are in this group. The nightlife of the students unfolded slowly, and the things involved were mentioned in the previous paragraph, so I won't repeat them. In order to gain a foothold in such a system, no, it should be said that every man and woman in this cruel system is squeezing their heads into one, trying to reap the benefits by the way. Every night, the male student who led the two girls to the truck driver gathering place to prostitution was run over by a truck in an accident. The male protagonist was selected to take his place. The derailment of the situation stems from the most cliche thing-love, although what I see is only one-sided love (sex?) bought with money. After the hero fell in love with a certain girl who sold herself, he repeatedly annoyed other students. He spent money with the girl several times and got the girl pregnant, so he stole a wallet and gave the girl an abortion in a black shop. (This one-shot abortion is really discomforting to the extreme. I have to admit that I was fast-forwarding. Despite this, I still feel sore and nauseous in retrospect.) At the end of the film, other students gave two girls The way to Italy (maybe it was sold), the male protagonist snatched the girl's passport, bit it torn apart, and was beaten up by others, almost to death. Wait, to correct it, this is not the end, the real end of the film, the male lead returned to the dormitory, using everyone's bedside table, one by one, smashed the head of every sleeping student. …… Throughout the length of the film The lens makes people want to go to the toilet repeatedly. Walking a street, smoking a cigarette, fighting a fight, and selling every night, there was no editing, no shots, the director ordered: Show me the end! So we painfully chewed and swallowed these smashing fragments, before we were allowed to watch the next episode of the plot. These pains finally paid off in the end-that is to make us pain to a new extreme. In the final ending, we followed behind the hero, slowly, entering door by door, smashing our heads one by one, ending the two-hour wonderful journey in dumbfoundedness. Really do everything. But these still cannot reflect all of Miloslav's malice. What I really want to talk about is the use of body language in this film. Silence is not just to make you depress. After taking a semester of sign language class, I deeply realized the non-inclusiveness of the name sign language-sign language is not only sign language, but also incorporates the whole person's violent body movements, exaggerated expressions, and all the enthusiasm . For people who can hear the collision of meat and bones, and the sound of rolling in the throat of a deaf person, this feeling is even more profound. Here, this point was maliciously used by the director to increase our discomfort. Perhaps this also explains why the film was angrily criticized by the public as being extremely unfriendly, discriminatory, and even discredited against the deaf-mute group. I also have such and such doubts, but ethical issues still need to be written 10,000 words, so I have to let him go for the time being. Niche films depicting niche groups, a match made in heaven? Or hurt each other? Not dare to assert. But the film was named The Tribe, and the school’s square inch was described as a tribe, and the director’s intentions can be seen in one or two. Being isolated, there is an insurmountable gap between the society of the healthy and the deaf-mute "tribe". This is an alien space that has been excluded from the normal world, and the sense of strangeness is enough to make people fearful. Although the extreme political inaccuracy has caused me to swallow the codeword, it is indeed his boldness. The previous sign language movies were all about promoting sign language culture or exposing the survival plight of the deaf-mute group, but Miloslav wanted to show you their indifferent and paranoid side coldly, and let the audience struggle with their violent jokes, and give you a heart. Cut a hole fiercely. But having said that, will this be a side show of the serious consequences of the isolation of the deaf-mute group, calling on people to fill this gully with care and tolerance, so that they will no longer be trapped in the abyss of crime? Ok! The truth is indeed the case, what a perfect ending to sublimation, just right at the end of the film review. I turned over a bunch of films, and I was satisfied with film reviews like this, and my wounded soul was healed a lot. ……. The only pity is that I really don't think Miloslav has this idea. Everyone in the film, inside and outside the school, is proficient in sign language, without any discrimination or different artistic expressions. So in the eyes of the tortured me, the director just wanted to portray a campus crime. The long shots throughout the story, the deaf-mute background, and the silent and subtitled setting are all to make this story unique and make it more interesting-in a shocking way. The pimping boy could not hear the sound of reversing, and was slowly crushed by a truck that was so slow that there was no threat to ordinary people; the girl who had an artificial abortion could not scream, and when the pliers were rammed into his lower body, he could only open her mouth and bang her head frantically. Weeping; in the last scene, all the people who were sleeping, could not hear the heavy footsteps of the hero, the sound of the cabinet smashing the head, and the panic struggle of the companion next to the bed, resulting in this almost incredible murder-a One, take it easy. Isn't all of this a kind of deepest despair? Outside the screen, we are also experiencing the despair of wanting to scream and being unable to scream, wanting to smash but realizing that no one can hear it. This may be his original intention of using pure sign language to interpret this violence, a malicious but surprisingly effective original intention.
[Actually, this is a film review disguised as a sign language homework]
[That's why the spoiler is so serious, because the teacher won't watch the movie again for my report, I guess! Extremely sorry! 】
[I guess no one will see here]
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