Theeb (2014)

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   flaiky

   Excellent film. The pace is slow but the tension never lets up, and the Jordanian desert makes for a fascinating setting. Beautiful photography, beautiful score, beautiful performance from the young lead...highly recommended. Naji Abu Nowar is one to watch. 9 years 6 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Theeb is Jordan's entry in the Academy Awards race for best foreign picture this year, the story of the eponymous boy who survives the death of his brothers and on the journey back from the desert to civilization in WWI-era Jordan, becomes a man. The young Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat gives an engaging, believable performance, but this is a very deliberate, slow-moving film that will try the patience of many. It's a pacing I tend to like, since the overall quiet makes the short bursts of violence more effective. Part of it is that Theeb isn't a particularly verbal character, even he's not alone. His journey is internal; having lost everything, he must fight through emotional confusion to come out as his father's son, or his brothers' brother, or like the land being transformed by Westerners, change to accept his new circumstances. The whole thing ends on a note right out of a John Ford western that puts the film, I think, in a new perspective. 8 years 2 months ago
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   ntan

   I usually hate when people call a movie boring. Like really hate it. And I usually love slow-burning thrillers/dramas.
   
   But Theeb wasn't thrilling... or dramatic. It was slow... and boring.
   
   It does have excellent cinematography and a nice score. Just a dull plot. 6 years 4 months ago

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