  Fierce People a.k.a. “Oi Agroikoi,” “Días salvajes”MPAA Rating:
 for language, drug use, sexuality/nudity and some violence_____
Moviemaking Quality:
Primary Audience:
Adults
Genre:
Drama
Length:
1 hr. 47 min.
Year of Release:
2006
USA Release:
November 30, 2007
DVD release: February 5, 2008 
“Every family tree has its nuts.” Producer’s Synopsis: “Trapped in his mother’s Lower East Side apartment, sixteen-year-old Finn (Anton Yelchin) wants nothing more than to escape New York and spend the summer in South America studying the Iskanani Indians, or ‘Fierce People,’ with the anthropologist father he’s never met. But Finn’s dreams are shattered when he is arrested in a desperate effort to help his drug-dependent mother, Liz (Diane Lane), who scrapes by working as a masseuse. Determined to get their lives back on track, Liz moves the two of them into a guesthouse on the vast country estate of her ex-client, the aging aristocratic billionaire, Ogden C. Osbourne (Donald Sutherland). In Osbourne’s close world of privilege and power, Finn and Liz encounter a tribe fiercer and more mysterious than anything they might find in the South American jungle: the super rich. While Liz battles her substance abuse and struggles to win back her son’s love and trust, Finn falls in love with Osbourne’s beautiful granddaughter, Maya (Kristin Stewart), befriends her charismatic older brother, Bryce (Chris Evans), and even wins the favor of Osbourne himself. But when a shocking act of violence shatters Finn’s ascension within the Osbourne clan, the golden promises of this lush world quickly sour. And both Finn and Liz, caught in a harrowing struggle for their dignity, discover that membership always comes at a price…
Volunteer reviewer needed for this movie — Request this assignment See list of Relevant Issues—questions-and-answers.   Neutral - I would not recommend this movie for very young children. Fourteen or over at least due to the well deserved “R” rating. The movie was about a young teenage boy and his single mom. It constantly contrasted the two societies of upper class America to the Iskanini tribe in South Africa, a very primitive tribe which means “Fierce People.” The movie was loaded with the “F” word, sex scenes and implications with not a lot of real nudity (backs of women, backs of men, frontal nudity of a male, no genitals). The nudity was mainly with the ancient primitive tribe in South America which wore little clothing and they were in their normal habitat. Movie Critics
…As ‘Fierce People’ nervously skitters between documentary scenes of the Ishkanani and the story of a mother and son absorbing the tribal customs of the New Jersey gentry, your instinct is throw up your hands and shout, ‘Enough already; we get it!’… …if the film has one major, tragic flaw, it is in the casting of Yelchin, who, with his urchin, ringleted prettiness and grating, sandpapery voice, plays Finn as if he’d seen too much of the early oeuvre of Christian Slater. It’s an overly calculated performance—now adolescent wise-ass, now wounded, wronged faun—which subverts any real, identifiable poignancy in his character’s situation.… …Though the mystery does work, it also feels thrown in from another movie.… |
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