Film Analysis: The Tribe

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This movie, The Tribe, is a brutal but brilliant story about a deaf teenager, Sergey, struggling to fit into his new, specialized boarding school for the deaf in Ukraine. There is no dialogue, subtitles, or background music. However, this affects every other small sound such as footsteps, heavy breathing, and car engines intensifying the mood. Also, the bleak settings and surroundings of the characters create the dreary landscape and exaggerate the bitterness and feeling of an amoral environment. The characters only communicate through sign language and actions. Within minutes of Sergey’s arrival, he is bullied by a group of boys on campus- a wild organization known as the Tribe. Once Sergey fights back, he becomes part of their organization

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