Savages (2012)

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Movie
German title Savages
Original title Savages
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 126 minutes
Extended Version:
135 minutes
Age rating FSK 16,
Extended Version :
FSK 18
Rod
Director Oliver Stone
script Shane Salerno ,
Oliver Stone,
Don Winslow
production Moritz Borman ,
Eric Kopeloff
music Adam Peters
camera Daniel Mindel
cut Joe Hutshing ,
Stuart Levy ,
Alex Marquez
occupation

Savages (in TV as Savages - In the Eye of the cartel ) is an American thriller from director Oliver Stone from the year 2012 , the on Don Winslow's novel The Hunter is based.

action

The film begins with scenes from a warehouse in Mexico. There, several captured men are threatened by a masked man with a chainsaw. There are signs that he will murder her. The following story is told in a flashback by Ophelia “O” Sage: The surfers Ben and Chon have a love triangle with O in a beach villa in Laguna Beach, California . They make a living by growing and trading marijuana . Chon was deployed as a Navy Seal in the war in Afghanistan and smuggled extremely high-quality seeds from there into the States, which makes her drugs of very good quality and correspondingly sought-after.

While Ben was abroad, Chon and O received a video message from the Mexican drug cartel showing a chainsaw and seven severed heads. The cartel calls for a meeting to negotiate business relationships. Chon and O fear for Ben's life, but Ben returns unharmed the next day. The friends agree to meet with representatives from the cartel, who offer them a three-year collaboration. However, they refuse, whereupon the delegates inform them that the leader of the drug cartel will not approve of their decision. Ben and Chon then ask for time to think about it, but the three of them prepare their escape to Indonesia. O initially leave them in the dark about the acute threat situation so as not to frighten them.

While the two men meet with the corrupt DEA agent Dennis, who advises them to partner with the cartel, O is kidnapped by the hit man Lado. Elena, the leader of the cartel, threatens to kill O if Ben and Chon continue to refuse to accept her offer. Ben and Chon then have to deliver a large number of drugs to the cartel; nevertheless, O is said to be held hostage for a year.

Ben and Chon contact Dennis again and ask him for help. When he refuses, Chon stabs him and injures his hand, whereupon Dennis gives them some information about the cartel. Then both of them strike back and attack a cartel money transport with the help of Chon's former Navy Seal friends. They kill seven of Elena's men and steal three million dollars that they want to use to buy O ransom. In order to cover their tracks, they forge some evidence with Dennis' help and put the attack on Alex's right hand. This is then brutally tortured by Lado. When they threatened to kill his wife and children as well, he “confesses” the betrayal. During the torture in which Ben and Chon are present, they learn that Elena still has a daughter. As proof of their loyalty, Ben has to burn Alex, who was doused with gasoline, afterwards. Then they bribe Dennis with three million US dollars to find out the whereabouts of Elena's daughter Magda. Then they kidnap Magda and arrange a prisoner exchange with Elena. She should get her daughter back intact as soon as she releases O.

The meeting takes place in the middle of the desert. Both the cartel and the two friends have their own snipers in position. Before the exchange takes place, Elena demands to find out the identity of the traitor who has revealed the whereabouts of her daughter. Chon claims that Lado was the traitor. Elena wants to shoot Lado, but he gets ahead of her. In the subsequent firefight, Chon and Ben are wounded and Lado is shot by O. When Chon realizes that Ben has been fatally injured, he overdoses Ben, O, and himself so that the three of them can all die together.

However, this turns out to be O's daydream. In fact, the handover is ended by DEA agents who received a tip from Ben and Chon. Everyone present is arrested. Since Ben and Chon know about Dennis' corrupt machinations, he names them as his informants, so that they are released. Ben, Chon and O leave the country and start a new life.

Reviews

"A drug thriller indulging in visual coolness, exhausting itself in verbal and narrative clichés, which tells more of the self-love of its director than of his previous mastery."

- Lexicon of international film

“Hip drug film, brutal comedy from the post-Tarantino era, reflection on cinematic narration, drama about characters on the edge or commentary on the so-called Generation Y: All of this is Savages  - almost. The readings are all suitable, but none of them really work. And so the film here is the real 'savage' one, which cannot be tamed with its wealth of approaches, directions and ideas. But that is exactly what makes it so special. "

- movie starts

“Hard thriller in a drug environment. Only the end was a minor accident. "

- Cinema.de

“With Savages , Oliver Stone has packed a highly explosive topic into a fast-paced thriller. However, the director is once again unable to achieve the top form of earlier works. "

- Ray magazine

Extended version

Mostly a new cut is sold in stores, which is advertised as an extended version and has a running length of 135 minutes. In contrast to the 125-minute version, the Extended Version was rated FSK 18.

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Savages . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2012 (PDF; test number: 133 782 K).
  2. ↑ Release certificate for Savages - Extended Version . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, February 2013 (PDF; test number: 5C 133 C).
  3. ↑ http://www.prosiebenfun.de/sendung/filme/savages-im-auge-des-kartells , accessed on April 10, 2019
  4. ↑ Savages. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Savages at filmstarts.de; Retrieved October 20, 2012
  6. ↑ Savages at cinema.de; Retrieved October 20, 2012
  7. ↑ Savages at ray-magazin.at, accessed on October 20, 2012