{"id":398815,"date":"2022-01-25T04:38:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T01:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/speak-no-evil-delivers-a-brutal-commentary-on-blanket-kindness\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T04:38:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T01:38:29","slug":"speak-no-evil-delivers-a-brutal-commentary-on-blanket-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/speak-no-evil-delivers-a-brutal-commentary-on-blanket-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Speak No Evil’ Delivers a Brutal Commentary on Blanket Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Speak No Evil’ Delivers a Brutal Commentary on Blanket Kindness<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

     <span class=\"mx-1\">Most of you are going to hate this movie.<\/span>\n<\/p><div id=\"\">\n\n\n\n                <figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-media<\/a> \">\n            <img width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/speak-no-evil.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Speak No Evil\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/speak-no-evil.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/speak-no-evil-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/>                                    <p>\n                    <span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\">Shudder<\/span>\n\n                        <\/figure>\n\n    <!-- START BYLINE -->\n    <div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\">\n        By\u00a0Rob Hunter\u00a0\u00b7 Published on January 24th, 2022 \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- END BYLINE -->\n\n    <em>This review of Christian Tafdrup\u2019s Speak No Evil is part of our 2022 Sundance Film Festival coverage. For more reviews and essays, visit our Sundance tab.<\/em>\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
Too much of anything can be a bad thing. Too much water and you might just drown. Too much sugar and you\u2019re likely to lose a foot or two. Too much ignorance and you\u2019ll probably vote Republican. But too much kindness? Is it possible to be too nice in an attempt to avoid insulting or upsetting someone? Speak No Evil<\/em><\/strong> suggests that not only is it possible, but it might just be your undoing. Of course, a lack of common sense and boundaries might be a big part of the problem too.<\/p>\n
Bjorn (Morten Burian<\/strong>) and Louise (Sidsel Siem Koch<\/strong>) are a Danish couple on vacation in Italy with their young daughter when they meet and hit it off with a Dutch family of three. Patrick (Fedja van Hu\u00eat<\/strong>) and Karin (Karina Smulders<\/strong>) are charismatic and fun-loving, and after a few months pass they reach out with an invite to visit them at their home in Holland. The Danes agree, but their arrival is soon followed by minor annoyances and inconveniences. Patrick insists pescatarian Louise try a bite of roast boar. Karin sets a bed for Bjorn and Louise\u2019s daughter on the floor of their son\u2019s room without asking. Patrick stiffs Bjorn with the bill for an expensive night out.<\/p>\n
Each slight arrives with a hair more weight than the last \u2014 they leave a male babysitter with their daughter, Patrick nonchalantly walks into the bathroom while Louise is showering \u2014 and each is taken and eaten without complaint by Bjorn and Louise. They\u2019re guests after all and wouldn\u2019t dream of offending their hosts. But then those slights escalate\u2026<\/p>\n
Speak No Evil<\/em> is played completely straight, but if taken at face value it is most assuredly guaranteed to anger and annoy viewers instead of thrilling and unnerving them. Watch it as the grim satire it is, though, and director\/co-writer Christian Tafdrup<\/strong>\u2018s brutal commentary on societal kindness \u2014 whether due to naivete or a fear of offense \u2014 hits with dark laughs and maybe even a wince or two. That said, even that extension will make some of what transpires difficult to swallow.<\/p>\n
The script<\/a>, co-written by Mads Tafdrup<\/strong>, affords Bjorn and Louise an overabundance of red flags and opportunities to \u201cescape.\u201d Anyone who\u2019s seen their share of genre films, including the likes of Funny Game<\/a>s<\/em> (1997\/2007) and Nothing Bad Can Happen<\/em> (2013), will see what\u2019s coming long before our protagonists do, and it\u2019s undeniably frustrating seeing them miss and dismiss such obvious signs of impending trouble. What\u2019s necessary to note, though, is that unlike those films, the issues here escalate slowly. The Danes accept the smallest of offenses and forgive slightly bigger ones too easily, and by the time things escalate their pattern of compliance has been well established.<\/p>\n
Speak No Evil<\/em> works well enough on its own terms, but audience annoyance is almost certain by the time things come to a head. All four lead performances are solid and effective at their goals with Burian and Koch convincing as a soft couple unused to rocking the boat with conflict or impoliteness. Their forgiving behavior grows somewhat exaggerated \u2014 again, not played over the top but unavoidably so all the same \u2014 leaving viewers little to hold onto or understand. What\u2019s far easier to grasp, though, is the low-key menace emanating from Van Huet and Smulders. They\u2019re casually charismatic, but you know there\u2019s something brewing underneath even before you know<\/em> there\u2019s something underneath.<\/p>\n
Tafdrup and cinematographer Erik Molberg Hansen<\/strong> shoot an attractively ominous film finding an uneasy atmosphere in otherwise welcoming landscapes and domiciles. Sune K\u00f8lster<\/strong>\u2018s score adds its own sinister touch even over images that feel innocuous. It\u2019s a well-crafted thriller building to a fantastic final line of dialogue \u2014 seriously, it almost rivals \u201cBecause you were home\u201d from The Strangers<\/em> (2008) \u2014 but as with every other element that delivers it\u2019s held back by what the script asks of viewers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s the worst that can happen?\u201d asks someone in Speak No Evil<\/em>, and we know all too well what the answer is going to be. The poor Danish couple aren\u2019t as savvy, though, and while their earlier choices can be forgiven it soon crosses a line (or eight) into silliness. It tests your patience, but it\u2019s their journey into hell, not yours, and it\u2019s one fueled by their choices, actions, and inactions. The horror genre is filled with characters making the same mistakes, but here it\u2019s the point \u2014 kindness without common sense is unwise, stupid, and just might land you in real trouble. So yeah, tell someone to fuck off next time they push your buttons\u2026 you might just live longer.<\/p>\n
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\n            Rob Hunter has been writing for Film School Rejects since before you were born, which is weird seeing as he’s so damn young. He’s our Chief Film Critic and Associate Editor and lists ‘Broadcast News<\/a>’ as his favorite film of all time. Feel free to say hi if you see him on Twitter @FakeRobHunter<\/a>.        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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