Cannibal Holocaust
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Ruggero DeodatoDrehbuch:
Gianfranco ClericiKamera:
Sergio D'OffiziMusik:
Riz OrtolaniBesetzung:
Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi, Salvatore Basile, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Ruggero Deodato, Paolo Paoloni (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Set in the Amazonian jungles, the film is a pseudo-documentary that follows Professor Harold Moore (Robert Kerman) into the "Green Inferno" as he searches for a documentary crew that came to the jungle the previous year to make a film about the storied cannibals that lived there, and never made it back. Now, Moore meets some natives and discovers the footage from the crew's expedition, and upon returning to New York, he watches it to find out what really happened. The truth is too horrible for words, proving that savagery is not limited to indigenous peoples, and the morally outrageous film proceeds to indict the exploitative practices of certain documentary practices. (Verleiher-Text)
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Es ist nicht leicht, diesen Film zu bewerten. Verdient ein guter Porno Sterne nur dafür, dass er bei mir für eine Erektion gesorgt hat? Der Film hat hinterhältig auf meine innersten und intimsten Triebpunkte gedrückt und ich habe mich ekelhaft und schuldbewusst gefühlt (schuldbewusst deshalb, weil ich freiwillig und voyeuristisch den größten Ekel auf der Welt beobachtet habe). Soll ich das als einen Vorzug des Films bezeichnen? Die letzte Aufnahme des Films ruft das Gefühl hervor, dass der Regisseur wirklich sein Ziel erreicht und gewonnen hat. Falls es so ist, verdient Nackt und zerfleischt nicht 3, sondern 5 Sterne. Das ist aber SEHR umstritten und am liebsten würde ich diesen Film nicht bewerten. Wenn es nämlich nicht so ist, sollte auch die letzte Kopie von ihm verbrannt werden.
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This ninety minute showcase of brutality outwardly tries to give the viewer the impression that it carries a message. In fact, this pious message – to highlight the dark side of man and the shameful commercialisation of violence – is just a mere excuse for Deodato to show us the harshest snuff ever committed against animals in a feature film (turtle lovers, don't watch this) and to portray in an extremely authentic way the filth (there's no other way to put it) that man can commit against man. The level of authenticity is so great that while watching it, I wondered if it was really just staged (but not with the animals, they're really live murders). Overall summary: a very artfully made disgusting film that pretends to be profound, but I don't buy it.
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Well, what can I say… Unrealistic as a documentary, weak as horror, above average as a film, very successful as a controversial piece. Now it all depends on what you expect from Cannibal Holocaust. I wanted controversial horror and hence my rating: I was very surprised, but little scared → three stars.
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I wonder who the real cannibals are... Eine Kombination aus Cinema Verité und Film à thèse. Heart of Darkness übersetzt in die (Post-)Moderne und ein Film, welcher mit seinen begrenzten Möglichkeiten stets bemüht ist, sich selbst zu reflektieren (dieser Dokumentarfilm stellt eigentlich eine Übertragung des Prinzips des Films selbst in die fiktive Welt dar), wobei Frage des Instinkts- / der Gewalt- / Zivilisationsmechanismen aufgeworfen werden, die uns vermeintlich von der primitiven Basis abhalten, ihr jedoch in Wirklichkeit stets unterliegen (oft im Namen des edlen Vorgehens). Es ist kein allzu akademischer Film, sondern eher ein eindeutiger wie eine These, stellenweise ist er nicht sehr geschickt gedreht, jedoch eine Botschaft und Sinn hat das ganze eben - sofern wir den die Empörung wegabstrahieren können, dass jemand doch so kühn ist, ein Schwein oder eine Schildkröte im Namen dieses Films zu töten, werden wir bald exakt herausfinden, dass es im ganzen Film eben um genau diese "berechtigte Empörung" geht. Genauer gesagt darum, was dahinter steckt.
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A (non)movie that is the embodiment of the term “controversial". Cannibal Holocaust is a hard movie to rate. It has no story, no actors either and the only thing that Cannibal Holocaust stands on is its “behind the scenes legend" about how (un)realistic the scenes are. It achieves its aim - to disgust - indisputably excellently, but at the same time it is a boring hundred minutes of tasteless masturbation about nothing. But still you learn something from it. Perhaps that nobody has the right to kill live animals for any kind of movie. But what if that wasn’t the point after all? You don’t know? Well nor do I. Perhaps you will uncover that proclaimed supposed philosophical side of it. Or perhaps not.
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The first half an hour was very uninteresting and boring, but after that the film was solid! Very bold and strong for its time. The shots of the turtle guts were the most disgusting thing I've ever seen. For me it's above average found footage, but it’s a very controversial film and I don't recommend it to everyone. 70%.
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A visual-narrative experiment that is easy to dismiss for a certain self-evident and blatantly trivial idea, but it’s important to remember that Cannibal Holocaust is not a film that ever had or will ever have the intention to appeal to a wide audience and declaim its message at the expense of its mostly barbaric and unspeakable visual form. No, Cannibal Holocaust is a minimalist and distinctive piece of filmmaking, a self-conscious conveyor of a "real story" in such a realistic way that it transcends the dimension of the generally accepted nature of the cinematic journey and becomes not only a controversial and deservedly infamous work, but also a unique probe into the twisted soul of filmmaking itself, where certain fans, myself included, will always find something new and disturbing. And yet, I rate it negatively. The level of brutality perfectly fits the overall scheme, and to denigrate its self-importance in this regard is utterly absurd, but the absolute lack of interest and zero emotional response towards the characters or the ensuing action that I continuously (un)felt throughout is as much a loss for the filmmakers in the case of this film as it is for David Lynch's films to be fully understood :))
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A spectacular performance, taken to an almost unintentional high with its missing actors and a ban in sixty countries. Yet we don't see anything particularly brutal in the film (though of course a phallocentric society is less accepting of a white man's penis getting lopped off onscreen than with a cool sexy native impaled on a pole), so all the suggestiveness is created by the then atypical approach of literal found footage, in which we don't see much of the final massacre, but in uncomfortably long and obscured shots we catch elements of the dismemberment of a crew of demented men whose previous motivations are strangely nonsensical yet horrifying. The overreach of this approach is demonstrated by Deodato about halfway through the film, in which he projects us actual footage of executions somewhere in Africa while convincing us that these are staged situations, as well as poking at a few real animals, among other things, and wrapping the whole thing in a classic detective format and all the devices that characterize it. It's a great pity that the package comes complete with a slice of classic Italian filmmaking and the terrible acting and cannibalistic music that seem to have blundered in from some furry porn, but again, you can comfort yourself with the fact that you’re not watching some highbrow intellectualism but a no-holds-barred excursion into the world of cinematic freedom.
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