O Matador de Ovelhas

Título original: Killer of Sheep

1978
1 h 20 min

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Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.

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Situado na área de Watts, em L.A, um trabalhador do matadouro deve conter suas emoções para continuar trabalhando em um emprego que considera chato, e então descobre que tem pouco carinho pa... Ler tudoSituado na área de Watts, em L.A, um trabalhador do matadouro deve conter suas emoções para continuar trabalhando em um emprego que considera chato, e então descobre que tem pouco carinho para a família que trabalha tanto para sustentar.Situado na área de Watts, em L.A, um trabalhador do matadouro deve conter suas emoções para continuar trabalhando em um emprego que considera chato, e então descobre que tem pouco carinho para a família que trabalha tanto para sustentar.

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7,2/10

7,7 mil

SUA AVALIAÇÃO

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Curiosidades
The Library of Congress has declared "Killer of Sheep" as a national treasure and one of the first fifty on the National Film Registry. The National Society of Film Critics selected it as one of the "100 Essential Films" of all time. However, since the film was made without the proper legal permits and rights acquisition (due to the expense of the music rights) the film was never shown theatrically or made available on video. It had only been seen on poor quality 16mm prints at a scant few museums and film festivals. Thirty years after its premiere the new 35mm print of Killer of Sheep was brilliantly restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive. In addition, all rights were secured for the music, allowing the film to be shown on the film festival circuit, theaters, and nationally broadcast by Turner Classic Movies. The film is also available on DVD.

Erros de gravação
After Stan and his friend load the engine block on the truck, they drive away and it falls out, and a car is then seen parked along the curb. The car was not there when they carried the engine out.

Citações
Stan: [holding a cup of tea] Stu, what does it remind you of when you hold it next to your cheek?
Stu: [taking the cup and placing it to his cheek] Not a damn thing but hot air.
Stan: Didn't it remind you of when you're making love and a woman 'fore it gets sometimes? Just like this?
Stu: Maybe so. I don't go for women who got malaria.

Conexões
Featured in Los Angeles Por Ela Mesma (2003)

Trilhas sonoras
This Bitter Earth
Written by Clyde Otis (uncredited)
Performed by Dinah Washington

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6/10

This is Real Life

Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family.

Film critic Dana Stevens describes the film's plot as "a collection of brief vignettes which are so loosely connected that it feels at times like you're watching a non-narrative film." There are no acts, plot arcs or character development, as conventionally defined.

What happens in this film is not a documentary, but in many ways it may as well be. How many films really focus on the black community anywhere at any point in time? Very few. And this one does that, in all its gritty and glamorless reality.