Songs My Brothers Taught Me

2015
16
1 Std. 38 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,0/10

4000

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Irene Bedard, John Reddy, Jashaun St. John, and Kevin Hunter in Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)

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Das Leben von Johnny und seiner Schwester Jashaun, die mit ihrer alleinerziehenden Mutter in einem Reservat leben, entwickelt sich zu einer Herausforderung, als ihr abwesender Cowboy-Vater p... Alles lesenDas Leben von Johnny und seiner Schwester Jashaun, die mit ihrer alleinerziehenden Mutter in einem Reservat leben, entwickelt sich zu einer Herausforderung, als ihr abwesender Cowboy-Vater plötzlich stirbt.Das Leben von Johnny und seiner Schwester Jashaun, die mit ihrer alleinerziehenden Mutter in einem Reservat leben, entwickelt sich zu einer Herausforderung, als ihr abwesender Cowboy-Vater plötzlich stirbt.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,0/10

4000

IHRE BEWERTUNG

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Auszeichnungen
- 10 Gewinne & 11 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
On a DVD extra, director Chloé Zhao said of the tight budget, light plotting, and neo-realist style casting, "We're capturing truth - because truth is the only thing we can afford." The production used mostly local residents as actors, and, according to Zhao, 80% of the story depicted is true to the actual life of the young man playing Johnny Winters (John Reddy). The house that Winters lives in is the house that Reddy lived in, and Reddy, also one of 25 children to one father, has many of his real family members playing members of his family. In fact, the man shown delivering the eulogy for Winters' father is Reddy's actual father.

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Johnny Winters: Where we live, the Plains, the Badlands, things usually look the same. People are always related. They got the same old worries all the time. It gets really hot sometimes. You get tired of it, but there's things you always gotta do. It's always a hard place to leave. 'Cause that's all you got growing up. My sister, Jashaun, she's got a thing about this place. She sees things I don't. She's a good one. Whenever the storms are comin', the old timers would teach us to watch the cloud. And when the wind is too strong, we all know to lean into it so it don't blow us away.

Verbindungen
Referenced in Hive (2021)

Soundtracks
Thrift Shop
Written by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Performed by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz
Courtesy of Macklemore LLC
Under license from Inside Passage Music

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7/10

Native Americans and Vibes

Watched this to see Chloé Zhao's debut feature and was rewarded with a slow immersion into life on an Indian Reservation in South Dakota. There's a loose plot about a brother and sister who, after the death of a distant father figure, are working out what the future holds for them, but this is much more "scenes from the reservation".

It reminded me of Gummo (a film I love) in its depiction of a world almost without authority figures, where tragedy (In Gummo, a tornado, here; a loss of culture generations past, and decimation from alcohol) seems to leave the inhabitants disoriented, struggling to know what to do.

The performances from the non-professional cast are stellar. Zhao has somehow managed to capture what seems like a slice of real life but in a way that makes even a difficult life seem beautiful and achingly close to something bigger.

I have yet to see The Rider, or Nomadland, but from what I've seen of them, they look to have a similar energy. That Marvel tapped Zhao to direct the upcoming Eternals movie is fascinating. It will be interesting to see how this aesthetic looks when it has a bigger budget, but also must serve a wider audience seeking the next step in a connected narrative. I believe Zhao will deliver something special.