Dog Pound
| Movie | |
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| German title | Dog Pound |
| Original title | Dog Pound |
| Country of production | France , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kim Chapiron |
| script | Jérémie Delon Kim Chapiron |
| production | Georges Bermann |
| music | Balmorhea K'naan Nikkfurie |
| camera | Andre Chemetoff |
| cut | Benjamin Weill |
| occupation | |
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Dog Pound is a socially critical prison drama directed by Kim Chapiron from 2010 and is a remake of Alan Clarke's classic 1979 prison film Scum .
The film premiered on April 24, 2010 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York . The German premiere was on August 19, 2010 at the Fantasy Film Festival in Hamburg.
action
Three young people between the ages of 15 and 17 are imprisoned for various offenses in the Enola Vale youth prison and have to submit to the hierarchy there. As newcomers, Butch, Davis and Angel quickly feel the violence of fellow inmate and leader Banks. Butch seeks revenge and sets an unstoppable spiral of violence in motion. Even within the discussion group led by prison psychologist Biggs, there are outbreaks of violence among prisoners.
The guard Goodyear, actually calmness in person, reacts irritably to the smallest misconduct of his protégés due to current private problems and fatally injures Angel. Shortly thereafter, Davis is raped by a fellow inmate and commits suicide. In connection with a hunger strike, this leads to escalation of violence among the prisoners in the dining room, so that the prison administration has to call in a reaction force. Butch wants to use the resulting chaos to escape, but is brutally beaten by the emergency services and brought back into the building.
background
In preparation for the shooting, the director Kim Chapiron went to American youth prisons and carried out a one-year milieu study there. He could not find any outbreaks of violence against the prisoners by the guards, Chapiron even felt some sympathy with them. The prison management also appeared friendly and accommodating to him. There was no trace of the clichés of the sadistic guards and tyrannical prison authorities, as they are known from prison films.
“Je n'oublierai jamais ma première visite en prison. Le gardien chef nous ouvre la grille, trois détenus nous attendent. L'un d'eux s'était écrit 'Fuck the world' sur le bras avec une punaise. Sa blessure suintait encore. La grille se referme et à ma grande surprise, le gardien n'entre pas. Mon imagination se met en marche, je me vois kidnappé par les détenus avec une lame de rasoir! Il n'en fut rien. Les trois jeunes ravis de recevoir de la visite nous ont baladés dans le center, nous présentant à tout le monde "
“I will never forget my first visit to prison. The chief guard opens the gate for us. There are three prisoners. One of them had previously scratched 'Fuck the world' on his (forearm) arm with a thumbtack. The wound was still wet. The gate closed behind me and, to my amazement, the guard left me alone with the three of them. I saw myself hostage with a razor blade on my neck. But none of this happened. The three young people were enthusiastic about my visit and we got to know each other in the building. "
All impressions had to be recorded in writing, as audio and video recordings are prohibited.
Chapiron filled numerous supporting roles with amateur actors whom he recruited from street gangs and prisons. He was convinced that only these would give the film the necessary authenticity. For the role of the butch, Chapiron initially planned to hire the musician K'naan , as he actually had several prison stays behind him. But K'naan canceled. Then Adam Butcher auditioned. “ When I met Adam Butcher, I immediately felt this madness in his eyes. Without even talking to him, I knew it was him. "(Kim Chapiron)
The main actor Adam Butcher had to be taken into custody twice during the filming, which caused the filming to stall because he was involved in almost every scene in the film. In the knife attack in the dining room, one of the actors was actually injured. “ We were always on the verge of catastrophe ... it wasn't easy to concentrate on the shoot and ignore the disruptive factors. Every evening when we put together the schedule for the next day, we wondered what misfortune would happen to us tomorrow. For example, when we were rehearsing the fight scene in the dining room, one of the actors was injured despite a protective cover on the gun. The wound was taken care of and we retouched it using image editing. It was the drama of the day. “, Says Kim Chapiron.
The name of the prison, Enola Vale (German: "Valley of Solitude"), is made up of the Indian word enola for "loneliness" and the English term vale , which means "valley". The main reason for this choice of name was Chapiron's impression that people with Indian roots play far too seldom a role in feature films.
The budget for the film was 4.83 million euros.
Locations
The film was shot in the Canadian province of New Brunswick .
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was created by the Texas band Balmorhea, the Somali-born hip-hop musician K'naan and Nikkfurie, a member of the French rap group La Caution .
Reviews
“Realistically drawn film with convincing actors, which tries to reflect the brutal everyday (youth) prison life, but ultimately only strings together clichés and patterns. The statements that violence only creates violence and that a prison is rarely a reformatory are hardly new either. "
“Kim Chapiron's film is an extremely weak portrait that indulges in a string of well-known formulas without being interested in the characters and their inner workings. [...] he [the viewer] has to realize after 87 minutes that even while the credits are running, he still doesn't know anything about these people who have not developed, who seem to have no soul life, no past, no future, just a present full of fear, violence and hatred. No love, no dreams, only here and there longing echoes that soon fade in the sea of malice and immature behavior. Chapiron's stiffness remains superficial - much more annoying than the fact that he is not interested in his characters from the start is the fact that numerous promising opportunities are given away to delve deeper [...] humiliations of all kinds are lined up continuously without being involved to reveal a center. [...] any individuality is lost in this film through this approach. It doesn't matter who Angel, Butch or Davis is, because all are the same, all degenerate into a single mass in a story that is not a story, but rather a sober, distant observation with delicate echoes of a reflection that took place in the last half an hour good ideas come up, but also let them go to waste very quickly. "
“Dog Pound is an appealing jail drama, but it hardly knows anything new to add to the genre. Alan Clarke's film Scum, which is still remarkably radical today, remains almost untouched by the remake and even today causes a decidedly queasy feeling when viewing it. "
“On the one hand, Dog Pound seems inevitably a little flattened compared to the raw energy that Clarke's film exudes to this day, seems more conventional, less consistent in the design of his vision. On the other hand, Chapiron succeeds in infusing a strange, almost improbable tenderness into this violent microcosm, which gives the events, which are transmitted from Scum unchanged, a very unique resonance space. "
Awards
In 2010, director Kim Chapiron received the Best Filmmaker Award for Dog Pound at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York .
Web links
- Dog Pound in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website (English)
- Dog Pound on critic.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The history of the film on allocine.fr (French)
- ↑ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=11435
- ↑ IMDb Trivia
- ↑ Official website ( Memento of the original dated August 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Dog Pound in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ↑ Dog Pound on film-rezensions.de
- ↑ Among vicious dogs ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Film review on Critic.de
- ↑ IMDb Awards
