salmanalfarisi-81574 The Tribe is one of the films with an odd way of speaking. The film is entirely from the beginning to the end using sign language which also became one of the breakthroughs because films like this seemed rare or unacceptable to some people. Maybe, I don't know if out there other than this movie the rest using sign language without any conversation that using word-per-word though. But, imagine watching in the cinema could leave a dark impression but full of doubt when you see this movie. The premise was simple, an innocent young man who's trying to stay in his school where the school was full of robbery, prostitution, and other criminal things.The first opening scene has clearly stated that this movie doesn't use subtitle, dialog, and voice-over. I've guessed that this is not a happy type of movie in it. It feeling of concern when enjoying this movie is whether to understand the story or dialogue which it uses a sign language that almost some people don't understand sign language. I think is not. Without further ado, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi uses all the actor and actress whose deaf so as not to show too much gimmick or acting. It's a pure gesture and facial expressions from the actors who understand the role of each their characters. So, don't worry if you can't comprehend the plot in such a way because this also teaches how to interpret the story without any help of a word. Unless you don't understand sign language, you can easily understand the story and the message the director wants to bear.The Tribe has an interesting element regardless of using sign language without any subtitle. One of them is the cinematography which is almost as a whole taken in one shot in a very long moment. The pictures through the camera always seem steady and always intercept or highlight the characters without any constraints frames or jump cut that seem questionable. The neatly visible movements make The Tribe seem more unique when talking about this aspect. Not too much to hear from the actors who use the sign language so it's not like I really care to them because it was notified early from the first though it also adds an important point because it doesn't use a fake gimmick.The director always shows a cinematography which is so smooth as for the most part and also my favorite when the two main characters are discussing in a two different room. One supporting character is entering one room with another room but the camera never separated from the view of the two characters are in the two room. When the two characters finished consulting, the other two characters coming from the right direction in the outdoor made the camera focus on the two new characters into the on-screen wherein this point they are, again, would describing the plot. Some other examples like the use of the environment are also unique as Akira Kurosawa does, using lots of weather, the direction of the wind, and the environment to further establish the character.The Tribe isn't a happy story. This is about one person who's in the wrong way makes him unable to fight in the place and must take all the situations which reside in his school. He surrendered himself to be able to adapt but that's what makes him a different person, especially on the ending that feels like a well-execution in a dark manner and creates a trace pattern. I think some flaws that make the cinematography so uncomfortable for some people are also a matter of getting viewers to leave a depressed impression such as one shot that's taking too long to cut, a silent scene with almost no sound at all like watching Martin Scorsese's Silence, and uncomfortable feelings about things like those. The Tribe also have many memorable scenes such as, of course, the dark ending scene, the abortion scene which also makes me the most creepy and cringe scene I've ever seen in this movie or any other movie, and the climax.The Tribe must be one of those movies with a strange and different experience than watching any mainstream movies. The use of sign language is difficult to understand but shows a work of art not only through words but through with feelings and thoughts as well. The Tribe is not a film which is too heavy to understand the way it is delivered but it also introduces you to the culture and the foundations of the deaf people so there is no mutual distinction.

emilywes56 While I was watching the film I did not talk. When it was over I could not move, I felt completely frozen solid. The Tribe is not a movie that someone can forget the next day and it certainly requires attention. It is one of the films that leave you speechless because of their raw honesty, terrifying atmosphere and unique cinematography. Indeed, words are superfluous in this case. The Tribe delivers an original point of view and a powerful impact on the soul of the viewer. The director has made an unmatched achievement, in which music is not needed, voice recording is not needed. As paradoxical as it sounds the transaction that haunt us is the single sound of the door that slaps. Additionally, this movie has some very difficult to watch scenes. The harshness in which the story and the heroes evolve is indisputable, as there are some infrequent scenes of violence or pain. Powerful, straightforward and a testimony for a grouping of people that we come to understand rarely or never through the movies it describe better than anything else their story-only with them, the light and space-. Last but not least I believe, in contrast with some other reviewers, that this film stands up for its protagonists and that the director made a successful experiment, which theoretically is a new era in cinema today, trying to portray something different, with sensitivity and in contradiction with profitable cinematography and popular success stories. This film is about life itself and the need for survival and love. A little detail in the analysis of the frames is that camera never reach its actors with close-up. All frames include whole-body shots or waist. Hard light, hidden faces, angle from behind their back, we never watch their faces, their face characteristics and details from close enough to "observe them". Even in love scenes we watch their face expressions but mostly their body. The dynamic of the body is their way of communication and it has a symbolic role in the events. With this act, the distance of deaf-mute people and the part of the people that can hear or/and talk is translated into a cinematic angle which transfers feelings of isolation and loss better than any other way, making us feel and listen again for a first time.

SpannersGerm669 I think anybody who appreciates cinema will be applauding the director of this movie for giving us something truly unique. For a two hour film to keep someone gripped, without any spoken dialogue or subtitles to guide us, shows the power of the good old fashioned visual storytelling. The movie tells the brutal story of a boy trying to fit in, in a boarding school for the deaf. Graphic sex scenes, brutal violence, and an overwhelming sense of dread, combine to make this a very uncomfortable viewing experience. Unfortunately i felt some scenes were dragged out unnecessarily, which prevented it from being the masterpiece thats said to be. I think cutting it shorter than 2 hours would have greatly benefited it, because there were a few occasions where the specific scene made its point, but hung around longer than its welcome. Not a masterpiece, but certainly an intriguing and unique look into the future of film making!

maurice yacowar The opening scene encapsulates the film. There is no music and we hear no language. The camera holds a stationary view across a city road on a bus stop. In front we see and hear a succession of cars, trucks and buses. This is the film's characteristic shot: we are remote, detached, coolly observant of whatever is going on beyond our hearing and understanding. In the distant right is the black ruin of an old car. It's a charred omen of the vehicles that pass, an augur of disaster. A young man, who will turn out to be our "hero," suitcase in hand, asks a woman at the bus stop for direction. He produces a note to express himself. So he's mute; her gesticulations tell us he's deaf. The lad is joining a boarding school for the deaf and dumb. That first scene is the last we will see him in that presents the normalcy of our everyday life. His criminal activities will take him to a truckers' stop and onto a train but those scenes show him working for the "tribe" he draws into at the school. Once he gets to the school he is in another world. As he is forced to immerse himself in it we're kept far out. Watching but outside. The staff and students are very articulate with their gestures, panting and grunts. But we're outside that language. We're of another tribe so we don't understand them. But we can figure out what's going on. That's because we're of the same tribe after all. So we recognize rites of initiation, socialization, pecking orders, cruelty, exploitation and the corruption of our highest values. The parable of the school, its teachers — some well-meaning, some compromised — and its clearly structured gang of rough boys and sexualized girls, opens into two themes. The first grows out of all this prolonged, detached shots of cold observation. The tribe at this school is a microcosm of our social structure. The absence of words and music make the experience seem like a clinical study, society viewed as through a microscope. We're detached so we can analyze the group's dynamics — but not so detached that we don't see it is mirroring us. Two scenes pack the most emotional wallop. In one our lad has sex with the blonde he has been pimping. What begins with awkwardness and fumbles ends in such a closeness she lets him kiss her. For him it's love; for her it may or may not be. Now he can't let himself pimp her anymore. They have another lyrical love scene, which turns ominous when he gives her a full wallet he stole on the train. At the end he bludgeons a teacher to steal money to buy her again. In that tribe he fears there is no "love" without payment. The second powerful scene is related: the girl's grisly abortion. This too is shot in one continuous long-shot take, in painfully real time. For this she uses the first money he gave her. We don't know if he knows that or not. Their relationship ends in either case. If the film dramatizes the essential ways of our society, if it shows one sub-culture as typifying all of ours, the climax gives us another resonance. Our lad, who was such a helpless victim when he arrived at he school, stumbling from one abuse to another, suffering the painful initiations, then doing the work assigned him, now rises up against his oppressors. First he assaults and robs the shop teacher who moonlights driving the girls for he pimps. Then he tries to keep his beloved whore from escaping to Italy — by eating her passport. Finally he kills the four boys who have most persecuted him. The appealing young lad turns robotic killer. We hear his continuing thumps right through the end credits — as if his march of revenge proceeds ad infinitum. Now the fable reads as the oppressed rising — finally, after so much abuse — rising up in violent revolution. At the end we learn the film is from the Ukraine. As the news reminds us, they know about oppression, about tribal wars, about the loss of innocence and about the savagery that persists beneath our veneer of civilization, even — or especially — among those whose disadvantages might dictate they rather aim for civility and care.