Watch O Som ao Redor 2012 123movies, Full Movie Online – Life in a middle-class neighborhood in present day Recife, Brazil, takes an unexpected turn after the arrival of an independent private security firm. The presence of these men brings a sense of safety and a good deal of anxiety to a culture which runs on fear. Meanwhile, Bia, married and mother of two, must find a way to deal with the constant barking and howling of her neighbor’s dog. A slice of ‘Braziliana’, a reflection on history, violence and noise..
Plot: Life in a middle-class neighbourhood in present day Recife, Brazil, takes an unexpected turn after the arrival of an independent private security firm. The presence of these men brings a sense of safety and a good deal of anxiety to a culture which runs on fear. Meanwhile, Bia, married and mother of two, must find a way to deal with the constant barking and howling of her neighbour’s dog. A slice of ‘Braziliana’, a reflection on history, violence and noise.
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The existential ennui of Antonioni and the paranoia of David Lynch
Sounds punctuate the neighborhood in Kleber Filho’s exhilarating Neighboring Sounds: a dog barks incessantly, street vendors blast their stereos, the noise of TVs reverberate through the streets, a vacuum cleaner rumbles, a washing machine vibrates, and a car sideswipes another. Neighboring Sounds employs a wealth of cinematography and sound to chronicle the anxiety that permeates a middle-class street in Recife, Brazil’s fifth largest city. Winner of the FIPRECI Prize at the Rotterdam Film Festival and four major awards at the Gramado Film Festival in Brazil, the film appears to be a typical crime drama but becomes a mix of the existential ennui of Antonioni and the paranoia of David Lynch.Antonioni’s own characterization of his 1960 masterpiece, L’Avventura, is a good fit for Filho’s first feature, “Nothing,” he said,” appears as it should in a world where nothing is certain. The only thing certain is the existence of a secret violence that makes everything uncertain.” Unlike many Brazilian films, this is not about favelas or drugs, but about the uneasy divide between a growing middle-class and their help living side-by-side in a crowded urban setting. Scenes are framed behind fences and grated doors to suggest maximum isolation, a suggestion that in today’s Brazilian urban areas, a melting pot is built out of necessity, not of choice.
The film opens with a montage of black and white photos of workers in a sugarcane plantation peering into the camera with tools raised, and sweat accumulating on their faces from slaving in the fields in the heat of the day. The weary faces suddenly melt into the shot of a young girl on rollerblades in a parking lot surrounded by tall white-walled condos. Like Lucretia Martel’s La Cienaga, Neighboring Sounds unfolds in a series of small incidents that convey an atmosphere of encroaching claustrophobia. Pointing to the local power structures that rule the streets, the block is run by the local “don,” Francisco (W. J. Solha), a wealthy landlord with a questionable past. João (Gustavo Jahn), Francisco’s grandson, is a real estate agent for the family who has established a promising relationship with Sofia (Irma Brown).
Accumulated incidents shape the film’s message. João and Sofia are caught naked in their living room by the arriving housemaid Maria (Mauricéa Conceicão) who makes light of the incident, engaging in conversation with João and Sofia in the confining space of his kitchen. Bia (Maeve Jinkins), another nearby resident trying to raise two small children, is consumed by managing her domestic help, organizing English and Mandarin lessons for her young children, while drugging the neighbor’s dog, amusing herself by smoking pot delivered to her by a drug-dealing water delivery man, and masturbating to the whir of the washing machine. Meanwhile, Sofia tells João that her CD player has been stolen from her car and asks for help to get it returned.
João immediately suspects his cousin Dinho (Yuri Holanda), a layabout who is used to getting what he wants and reacts aggressively when confronted. Sparked by the car theft and other recent incidents on the block, João hires a security patrol manned by Clodoaldo (Irandhir Santos) to oversee the neighborhood’s safety. Though the residents of the block are relatively well off, they need more and more security but even then, do not feel safe in a country where there is a large disparity between rich and poor. The security patrol is ostensibly there to ensure the neighbor’s safety, but accomplishes the very opposite when their true motives are revealed. As the accumulation of tension explodes in an illuminating burst of sound, the world ends not with a whimper but with a bang.
A complicted Recife for success….
To me, this is the film other people must have seen when they saw “Parasite.”Sure we visit a foreign land, with all too familiar takes on haves and have-nots. That said there are distinctly Brazilian flavors here, which I’m sure I didn’t catch, but added to sense of insecurity.
My introduction to Kleber Mendonça Filho went so well, I pretty much ran through his catalogue in a week. I like how his films don’t necessarily lay out all the plot tiles in a tidy row. He works in dream sequences better than most (and the sounds accompanying that scene in particular were perfectly haunting.). An odd homage to John Carpenter here, but it made more sense when I watched his most recent film.
Family and society dynamics laid out, but not in such heavy handed (hello “Parasite”) fashion. A spin on who watches the watchmen as well.
Anyways, more people should watch KMF imho.
Original Language pt
Runtime 2 hr 11 min (131 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Drama, Thriller
Director Kleber Mendonça Filho
Writer Kleber Mendonça Filho
Actors Ana Rita Gurgel, Caio Almeida, Maeve Jinkings
Country Brazil
Awards 38 wins & 23 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital (Dolby 5.1)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1, 2.39:1 (screen ratio)
Camera Aaton Penelope, Zeiss Super Speed and Angenieux HR Lenses, Arriflex Cameras (some scenes), Canon EOS 5D Mark II (some shots)
Laboratory FotoKem Laboratory, Burbank (CA), USA (post-production), Megacolor, Brazil (film processing)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm, Video (HD)
Cinematographic Process Canon H264 (1080p/24) (source format) (some shots), CinemaScope, Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (source format) (some scenes), Techniscope (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm, Digital