Two long hours, suitable for passing time when you are bored

Cathryn 2022-03-25 09:01:14

The heroine is an ordinary-looking Spanish girl who went to work in Germany alone. When she was bored, she went to nightclubs for entertainment. She met four young German youths, who were unemployed and gangsters. Hanging out on the street, and going to the roof to drink beer. After playing and messing around, they went back to the coffee shop where she worked part-time. When everyone was about to separate, a few gangsters received a task from an underworld elder brother who asked them to rob a bank. Because one of the gangsters drank too much and left early, the heroine went with the other three. The bank robbery went well, and then they went back to the nightclub to party. After coming out, he met the police, so he started to run away, and had a shootout with the police. One was arrested and the other was shot dead. The heroine and the punk he liked first hid in a family in a residential building, then used the baby of that house as a cover and escaped to a hotel. The punk was also shot just now and died in the hotel due to excessive blood loss. room. The heroine leaves the hotel with the money robbed from the bank. This all happened overnight.
The film probably wants to show that people's various decisions are affected by thoughts and emotions, and lead to unpredictable consequences. The heroine made her life completely out of control overnight because of a single thought. At the end of the film, the heroine does not know whether to abscond with the money or to surrender, which is a suspense.
The feature of this film is that one shot is taken to the end, but this is only the form, and the content is too long. It would probably be a little better if it could be simplified.
In the first half, the plot of those people playing and making trouble was really boring, and finally a little bit of robbing the bank, but after that, there was a lot of play in the nightclub, which was completely boring. If only 90% of the scenes of shopping, drinking, and having fun could be deleted.

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Extended Reading
  • Kristy 2022-03-20 09:02:11

    In one shot, it's technically powerful, and the sense of realism and horror created by handheld photography is impressive.

  • Norbert 2021-12-26 08:01:47

    Really. One mirror to the end. In Berlin under the dark, a somewhat dangerous story gradually evolved into a very dangerous one. Like Victoria and Sonne, good people are not good enough and bad people are not bad enough. Although the long-time shooting at close range makes my stomach a little discomfort, I still appreciate the director's ideas and courage.

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?