Really understand a few details of this movie... (Updated on October 17)

Ibrahim 2022-01-09 08:02:17

First of all, the important filming location of this movie, the restaurant, is right in front of my house. Although I don’t know Fatih Akin, he, a native Hamburger, used a few tricks to push all kinds of burgers to the world. It is really precious.

-The younger brother played by Moritz Bleibtreu, every sentence must be "digga". This is a mantra of a local Hamburger, there is no special meaning, it is to add this digga to every sentence to ensure that you will immediately become a complete little ruffian... …

-The old classmate Neumann met when the protagonist was rushing to eat when he heard that the protagonist’s restaurant was in Wilhelmsburg. There were two reasons:
First, Wilhelmsburg was located north of the Elbe (the river that runs through Hamburg). Hamburgers think of it as a gathering place for foreigners, social assistance recipients and other casual people, and their reputation is very bad.
Second, Wilhelmsburg has begun to gentrify on a large scale in recent years, and as a new urban area has been exposed in major media. Although the location of the site is extremely central, the land price is still abnormally low. It is definitely a piece of fat in the eyes of these real estate agents.

-In Hamburg, as long as the house on the water is not cheap, this explains that the actor on the roof of Shuibagirl’s house asks her if she is uniquely rich. The house of the Lady of the Water is in the Speicherstadt (Speicherstadt) that Hamburg has been proud of for hundreds of years. After the widespread use of containers, these warehouses gradually lost their original functions. The Hamburg city government rented out these idle warehouses, and most of them were transformed into studios for artists, offices for small and medium-sized enterprises, and so on.

Fatih Akin seemed to always think about water when selecting scenes...
1. The old man called Socrates had been polishing his ship
2. He rushed to eat towards the Elbe
3. The warehouse city was built in On the water
4. It is raining at the funeral
5. The man’s girlfriend Nadine’s home lives by the Alster Lake, one of the wealthy districts of Hamburg

-About 1 hour and 18 minutes, Anna dragged the disabled male lead through an "alley", which is where I shop on weekends. On the left is Marktkauf, the largest supermarket in Wilhelmsburg, and on the right is Rossmann. Compare North Germany A large grocery chain supermarket.

-Around 1 hour and 21 minutes, the place where the male protagonist drives a forklift is called Großmarkt, which is a wholesale distribution center for Hamburg vegetables and flowers. The characteristic is its wavy architecture.

-The male lead’s old classmate’s office is located in HafenCity, a new urban district in Hamburg. It was transformed from an abandoned warehouse and may be the most expensive place in Hamburg.

-From the skating rink where the musicians work, you can see Hamburg’s iconic St. Michael’s Church.

-Good people are poor people, foreigners, bad people are rich people, Germans...

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Soul Kitchen quotes

  • Lucia Faust: Goethe said: "Colors are light's monument and misery." That is because Van Gogh get crazy and cut himself ear. Do you understand?

    Illias Kazantsakis: Of course, sure. I know.

    Lucia Faust: Good then.

  • Sokrates: Give me a glass of wine you stranger bastard.

    Shayn Weiss: I love you too, Sokrates.

    Sokrates: Ya, ya, ya.