Victoria--A Suspenseful Film with Twists and Turns

Elmo 2022-08-05 09:38:47

Victoria, a young Spanish woman, dances by herself through a Berlin club. When she decides to leave, she is met at the exit by four young men who call themselves Sonne, Boxer, Blinker, and Foot. The four Berliners and Victoria get along well and try to keep each other entertained. Sonne und Victoria are drawn to each other and leave the group at the first opportunity. But her lovely flirting is cut short by the other gang, because the night is far from over for these lads: in order to make amends, they must complete a large transaction. And, because one of them is incapacitated, she decides that Victoria will fill in as the driver. However, once the game begins, it abruptly ends.

Following his own script, director Sebastian Schipper tells the story of an extraordinary night that unfolds on the streets of Germany's capital. Platzieren Along with the kühnen descent, one looks out from the roof of a high-rise building over the city, wanders through deserted streets, and hides in remote backwoods. In the meantime, seemingly unrelated events coalesce into a dramatic tour de force.

Overall, Victoria is a fantastically exciting film that promises an adrenaline rush to the audience. The first half-hour of the film may be misleading, perhaps because a character full of cliches and dialogue to Fremdschämen is typical of the genre. The initially seemingly peinliche and kitschige characterization of the main characters is soon overshadowed by the increasing tension and the rapid pace of the events. What the story emphasizes at the end is the feeling of strangeness in an anonymous city. The Berliner Ghetto-Jungs appear to be a clear example of the aimlessness and isolation of young people in today's Europe.


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Victoria quotes

  • Victoria: I've been... I've been... I don't know the name, how you say that... I've been... in the conservatory, you know... I was in the conservatory. and I cannot continue in the conservatory because I'm not good enough, or something like that

    Sonne: Because they're stupid, or what?

    Victoria: No, it's okay. I prefer that.

    Sonne: No, really... Because it's amazing. It's like. You know, I...

    Victoria: No, it's not amazing... I don't know. I've been sixteen and a half years practicing playing the piano. every day, like seven hours every day. Seven is the maximum. You cannot play more, because you're gonna hurt your arms. And it's a really hard life, because you have no... you have no life. You have no friends. Well, the friends are like the other guys that are in the conservatory... but they are not your friends really. They're like your enemies. Because they are fighting for your dream too.

    Sonne: But was it your dream... to play?

    Victoria: Not any more.No. Because it's... You are... You... You can became a bad... I don't know. I was just thinking, for my friends, they should fail in their exams... because then I would have, like, more opportunities for me! Our teacher said to us that. just the 90% of us, we are wasting our time. It's really difficult to become a real piano player. And it's better like this. You know, when I was 12, I can remember, I was like an old lady... just playing always the fucking piano.

  • Sonne: What is this shit? What is this shit? Boxer, what is this shit, man?