Why the hell dub?
It’s beyond me how anyone can enjoy watching films dubbed or with voice-overs. It’s an absolute travesty, as far as I’m concerned. Whether you understand the language of the film or not, isn’t there something pleasant and endearing about watching a foreign film in its original language? Of course, I say this from the perspective of an English-speaker, so by foreign film I mean anything not originally in English. From the perspective of a non-native speaker, I don’t know if The Dark Knight or the Avengers constitute ‘foreign’ films (I would say no), but let’s just say any film in a language not your own for the purposes of this little rant. The other day I went to a local cinema – Zhovten for my local readers – which sometimes shows films in the original language. We were there to see ‘Future Shorts’, 6 short films totaling 81 minutes, from 6 different countries: Poland, Brazil, South Korea, Denmark/Sweden (1 film) and 2 from America. It was advertised as being in the original l...