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The film was well-acted and created a genuine sense of what the folks in a community such as this might go through under the circumstances presented.
Sustenance and survival in the real world, people. And it is not about the desolate and barren Icelandic landscape, harsh, grim and evocative, but instead about how that setting interacts with the people, the sheep and their lives. 49 out of 53 found this helpful.
The ending was ambiguous in that we don't know if their relationship will ultimately change, or even if everyone will survive. That's pretty much it.
The results are both hilarious and tragic.
Rams is not about the characters, it's about their relationship with themselves, their environment and each other. Was this review helpful?
Was this review helpful? they raise sheep and must deal with the devastation that comes when disease arrives and infects the rams. Its value is here--and just here--being focused. I was not prepared for what I got. Killing something you love is not an easy thing to do of course, but Rams is a blast of reality in that way. Why start now?" 32 out of 39 found this helpful. Refreshingly alluring, Rams is a film which will make you think and question. That of farmers in the cold Icelandic conditions. They live in adjacent houses on the family farm, legally owned by the sober brother. Was this review helpful? One of the best movie about the farmers I have seen. And it takes one to a very different atmosphere. Was this review helpful? Iceland is slowly working its way up the world cinema beanstalk.
Iceland is always a great background for a movie and here, like in other Icelandic movies, it is a main character. The discovery of scrapie among the sheep, a lethal and highly contagious disease, should draw Gummi and Kiddi closer together. You don't have to have been to Iceland to appreciate Rams, but it certainly helps explicate the film's grizzled, deadpan sense of humour, or the mysterious, beguiling power resonating from their vast, otherworldly landscapes. 5 out of 6 found this helpful. Gummi (the quiet, introvert one) and Kiddi (the aggressive, drunkard, trigger-happy one) are a couple of brothers who live right to each other but haven't spoken for 40 years (whatever the reason). "Hrútar" is also a very fine and accurate composition of image, setting and atmosphere. Their fractious but largely peaceful co-existence is shattered when a highly contagious disease is discovered in the flock and local authorities decree that all must be destroyed. Rams is harshness and it is beauty, contrasting, colliding, and intermingling, like an Icelandic landscape and an Icelandic sheep farmer's life.
Was this review helpful? All we do know is that, for one particular moment, they do care about each other. Was this review helpful? Each, wrote Hawthorne, "leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object." While the outside world buzzes with social and digital media innovation, life goes on for brothers Gummi and Kiddi as it has for generations amidst the harsh natural beauty of rural Iceland. Hrútar won the Un Certain Regard Award for best movie at 2015 Cannes Festival. 10 out of 15 found this helpful. There are battles, but the opponents are nature, the struggles of human relationship, and the hardships of life. 3 out of 5 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? The rams of the title are not just the sheep but the two brothers. 26 out of 33 found this helpful. In an age of digital marketing saturation, social media domination and notifications of the latest Disney blockbuster being sent to you while you're sat on the loo, it's always refreshing to have a film sneak up unannounced and give you that warm fuzzy hidden gem feeling. 4 VIDEOS | 11 IMAGES. Love and hate have many things in common. Both are unmarried and attached to their flocks. Rams is an Icelandic saga of the highest order, not of Kings, but of the Icelandic sheep farmer. The Icelandic landscape - seen in both its green glory and its stark white glory - literally made me gasp at first. The family drama is an elastic genre label that is used when nothing else fits. 4 out of 6 found this helpful.
Was this review helpful? They have not spoken for 40 years, are fiercely competitive with their prize-winning rams, and sometimes communicate via dog-carried notes or bullets through a window. Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon Movie News India Movie Spotlight.