Man Down (film)
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| Original title | Man down |
| Country of production | United States |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Ditto Montiel |
| script | Adam G. Simon |
| music | Clint Mansell |
| camera | Shelly Johnson |
| cut |
Jake Pushinsky , Mark Yoshikawa |
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Man Down is a war film by Dito Montiel , which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 6, 2015 and was released in US cinemas on December 2, 2016.
action
From one battlefield to the next: War veteran Gabriel Drummer ( Shia LaBeouf ) returns to America from the battlefield in Afghanistan. There he believes to find a post-apocalyptic world. The soldier traumatized by his experiences in Afghanistan, his best friend Devin Roberts and another survivor named Charles team up to survive in the rubble landscape. Gabriel is not only concerned with his own survival, but also with that of his wife Natalie and his son Jonathan.
In another storyline, the empathetic Captain Peyton ( Gary Oldman ) talks about his experiences in Afghanistan in therapy session with Gabriel. It gradually emerges that when he entered a house in a war zone, he mistakenly assumed a room was secure. Shortly afterwards, his group was shot at from a hiding place in this room, and one of his comrades died. By returning fire, he was able to stop the bombardment, but found that he had killed a woman and her child in the process. This experience gives him a hard time, he thinks of suicide. Nevertheless, he says that he has everything under control during therapy and refuses treatment.
The third storyline describes how Drummers dealt with his son Jonathan (Charlie Shotwell) and his wife Natalie ( Kate Mara ) shortly before he left for Afghanistan. The family is quite happy with one another, and the farewell extends into the war.
The three storylines change frequently, so that the initial situation, causes and effects run side by side. Sometimes there are references to earlier actions in the strands that play at a later point in time. Towards the end of the film it becomes clear that the supposedly post-apocalyptic world is actually his own home in a peaceful environment. In the trauma he "saved" his own son and perceives all other persons, including his wife, as dangerous enemies.
The film ends with Drummer being badly shot by the police shortly after he recognized his wife as such.
production
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Kate Mara and Shia LaBeouf at the premiere for the film
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Staff and cast
Directed by Dito Montiel . The script was written by Adam G. Simon . The leading roles of Natalie and Gabriel Drummer were cast with Kate Mara and Shia LaBeouf . It is in Man Down is the second collaboration between Montiel and LaBeouf, of the actor already for his directorial debut Kids - In the streets of New York had in 2006 committed.
Filming and film music
Filming took place in New Orleans and Santa Clarita . Filming began on October 30, 2014 and ended on December 5, 2014.
Clint Mansell composed the film music . The soundtrack for the film consists of 12 pieces and was released on December 2, 2016.
publication
The film premiered on September 6, 2015 at the Venice Film Festival . The film was presented at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2015 and was released in US cinemas on December 2, 2016. A cinema release in the United Kingdom took place on March 27, 2017, but only in one cinema. On September 25, 2017, the film will be released in German on DVD and Blu-ray.
reception
Reviews
So far, the film has only won over 14 percent of Rotten Tomatoes ' critics .
Variety's Peter Debruge says that even if the film lacked the resources its ambitious post-traumatic and post-apocalyptic vision demanded, one should not overlook the committed acting performance of Shia LaBeouf , who has now shed his boyhood image and is so authentic in Man Down as has rarely been seen since the days of Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift .
Gross profit
The film only ran in one cinema on its launch day in the UK and had only one visitor here.
Awards
The film was nominated for Best Picture for the Venice Horizons Award at the Venice Film Festival in 2015 .
Web links
- Man Down in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Man Down in the German dubbing file
- Man Down - Official Trailer from Lionsgate Movies on Youtube (Video, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Man Down . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 169379 / V).
- ↑ Josh Wigler: Shia LaBeouf Cries 'Man Down' With Gary Oldman In: cbr.com. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
- ↑ Clint Mansell Scoring Dito Montiel's 'Man Down' In: filmmusicreporter.com, July 27, 2015.
- ↑ Movie Information 'Man Down' In: soundtrack.net. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
- ↑ Man Down. Weekend Box Office In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
- ↑ Björn Becher: 'Man Down': German trailer for the post-apocalyptic war drama with Shia LaBeouf and Gary Oldman In: filmstarts.de, August 27, 2017.
- ↑ Man Down In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
- ↑ Peter Debruge: Venice Film Review: 'Man Down' In: Variety, September 8, 2016.
- ↑ Tobias Mayer: One viewer found imitators: 'Man Down' with Shia LaBeouf increases its number of visitors filmstarts.de, April 6, 2017.
- ↑ Björn Becher: Only one viewer: 'Man Down' with Shia LaBeouf flops at the British box office filmstarts.de, April 4, 2017.