The Katja family lives in the Turkish immigrant community in Hamburg. A sudden explosion claimed the lives of Katja's husband and her daughter. As the investigation unfolded, investigators slowly discovered that the explosion was the work of a young German couple who held an ultra-nationalist stance. The court scene is the biggest highlight of the film. However, due to insufficient evidence, the young couple was acquitted and Katja has since embarked on a road of revenge.
From "The Other Side of Life", Fatih Akin began to pay attention to the creation of immigration themes. "Out of thin air" is a combination of the revival of the extreme right in Europe in recent years, through two bombings to counter Control stereotypes that confuse immigrants with terrorists.
The film first questioned the use of legal shells by far-right organizations to cover up the essence of their neo-Nazism. The far-right organization that the young couple who committed the explosion once joined has now become a legal political party. Fatih Akin’s films question the legitimacy of this type of political party. In recent years, extreme right forces have emerged in Europe, and most of these parties are legal, such as the National Democratic Party in Germany and the National Front in France. The film uses the terrorist bombing carried out by the young couple to compare the legal existence of the far-right organization as a time bomb, showing the harm caused by this appeasement policy. In the following court scenes, the Katjas' past involvement in drug trafficking made them a killer in the hands of young couple lawyers. The police found drugs in Katja's home, and Katja also admitted that he had taken drugs. It was Katja's drug abuse experience that became the focus of debate in the court scene that allowed the young couple to be acquitted. Here, what can cause us to reflect is the unequal treatment faced by the immigrant group as a disadvantaged party before the justice. The last scene shows the process of Katja's revenge. On the beach in Greece, she walks to the young couple's RV alone carrying a bomb and detonates it. The pressure of the first two acts finally broke out here.
Katja's counterattack is actually the use of violence to counter violence in the face of hatred and violence, while the rigid judicial system and media stereotypes are the last straw that overwhelms Katja's sanity. At the beginning of the film, the explosion at Katja's home was once interpreted as a terrorist attack by terrorists with immigration status, and such TV images were undoubtedly a secondary injury to Katja, who had lost his family. The two explosions in the film illustrate the horror of "hatred". The first explosion was due to the hatred of the extreme right towards the immigrant group, while the second explosion was a counterattack to the accumulated hatred. There are no terrorists in the movie. The two explosions were due to hatred, and it happened to be the purpose of the terrorist group to create this kind of hatred and tearing between ethnic groups. What the film shows is the result that a society caught in ethnic hatred will suffer. The two explosions are a warning to the current European society. Compared with the terrorists themselves, what is more terrifying is "hate". This is the director's concern about Europe at the moment, and it is also the choice that European people need to face.
"Coming Out of Nowhere" puts "humanitarian" in the highest position. It confronts the immigrant group itself to reflect on Europe, which is facing the refugee crisis and terrorist threats.
Originally published by Phoenix Entertainment http://ent.ifeng.com/a/20170528/42944692_0.shtml
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