Straw Dogs - Who sows violence
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Straw Dogs - Who sows violence |
| Original title | Straw dogs |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rod Lurie |
| script | Rod Lurie |
| production | Marc Frydman |
| music | Larry Groupé |
| camera | Alik Sakharov |
| cut | Sarah Boyd |
| occupation | |
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Straw Dogs is an American thriller from 2011 , starring James Marsden , Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgård . It is a remake of Who Sows Violence , which appeared in 1971, and accordingly also the literary film adaptation of Gordon Williams' novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm .
action
Screenwriter David Sumner and his wife, actress Amy, two cosmopolitan city dwellers from Los Angeles, move to their old hometown, idyllic Blackwater, in the deep south of Mississippi , after the death of Amy's father . Everyone here knows a lot about the other. And the weekly highlight in the town is the football game on Friday evening. But the idyll is deceptive. Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie and his football team start chasing after the attractive Amy. The men begin to tease David and make him feel their contempt. Later they invite the unsuspecting David to go hunting. While David's absence, Amy is raped by Charlie. When Norman arrives, he also rapes Amy. David, left alone by the others, returns home, where Amy tells him nothing about the rapes.
When the daughter of former football coach Tom Heddon goes missing, the situation gets completely out of control. The killer is seriously injured in the Sumner's house and a lynch mob demands that David surrender it. David refuses and the film ends in an extremely violent confrontation.
David engages in a life and death fight with the attackers, killing all attackers.
Reviews
“Anyone who sows violence takes a little too much time to continuously tighten the tension screws and produces one or the other length before all the pent-up aggressions are finally discharged. In addition, the ensemble knows how to convince. But unfortunately Rod Lurie and cameraman Alik Sakharov get stuck in the beginnings and few parallel montages in the interesting use of the motif of a mirror to illustrate the diametrically opposed lifestyle of the rural population versus the Summer family. "
“James Marsden is certainly not a one hundred percent replacement for Dustin Hoffman and director Rod Lurie does not find quite as strong images as Sam Peckinpah 30 years ago, but because his remake does not degenerate into a dull orgy of violence, but turns out to be psychologically pleasantly polished, are allowed here alongside fans of the original can take a look at the (adult) cinema offspring. "
“The remake revises the original's striking image of women, but also reduces its provocative depiction of the relapse of a cultivated man into archaic-aggressive behavioral patterns to a banal confrontation between socially damaged machos and liberal educated citizens. A current revision of the material does not come about. "
Web links
- Straw Dogs - Straw Dogs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Straw Dogs - Who sows violence at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Straw Dogs - Who sows violence at Metacritic (English)
- Straw Dogs - Who sows violence in the online film database
- Straw Dogs - Who sows violence in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Straw Dogs - Who sows violence . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2011 (PDF; test number: 129 949 K).
- ↑ Straw Dogs - Who sows violence on moviemaze.de ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Christoph Petersen: Straw Dogs - Who sows violence on filmstarts.de , accessed on December 8, 2011
- ↑ Straw Dogs - Who sows violence. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .