21 grams
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| German title | 21 grams | ||
| Original title | 21 grams | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2003 | ||
| length | 125 minutes | ||
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| Director | Alejandro González Iñárritu | ||
| script | Guillermo Arriaga | ||
| production |
Ted Hope , Robert Salerno |
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| music |
Dave Matthews , Gustavo Santaolalla |
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| camera | Rodrigo Prieto | ||
| cut | Stephen Mirrione | ||
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21 grams from 2003 is the second feature film by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu . It was created in close collaboration with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga . The title of the film refers to the alleged "weight of the soul" which the American doctor Duncan MacDougall determined in an experiment in 1907.
action
Like González Iñárritus and Arriaga's first film Amores Perros and the following Babel , 21 Gramm interweaves three storylines: that of Cristina Peck and her family (husband and two daughters) who died in a traffic accident, that of Jack Jordan, the driver who caused the accident and his family ( Wife and two children), and that of Paul Rivers, who is suffering from heart disease, who separates from his wife Mary after a heart transplant (which subsequently went badly) in order to live with Cristina, the widow of his heart donor who died in the accident. The scenes in the film are not edited in chronological order. In the following, the plot is largely reproduced chronologically:
Cristina Peck has overcome her drug addiction and leads a happy life with her husband and two young daughters. Jack Jordan, a former convict, lives with his wife and two young children in difficult social circumstances. His marriage is not without tension ( mainly due to his predestined religious attitude), but is characterized by mutual affection. He loses his job as a caddy in a golf club because members are bothered by his eye-catching prison tattoos, but he finds support in his strong faith. So he sees z. B. the raffle of a truck as a special grace of God. The mathematician Paul Rivers has a serious heart condition and is waiting for a transplant . His wife Mary, who had separated from him once before and had aborted a child from him without his knowledge, has returned to him because of his suffering. She really wants a child from him before he dies. However, the abortion caused gynecological damage, so that only an operation followed by artificial insemination offers a certain chance of pregnancy.
Jack Jordan causes an accident in which Cristina Peck's husband and her children are killed. Jordan initially committed a hit- and-run, but after a few hours he turned himself in to the police despite his wife's desperate protests. He's going back to prison. He feels betrayed by Jesus because, despite his conversion and loyalty to God, after his previous offenses, he had imposed this fate on him. After his release, Jordan reluctantly returns to his family, but eventually leaves because he feels guilty that he will have to lead a joyless existence for the rest of his life. He finds work on a construction site and moves into a shabby motel room.
Paul Rivers receives the heart from Cristina Peck's husband. After the successful transplant, he tries in vain to find out who saved his life. Rivers' marriage is over. In contrast to him, his wife still believes that pregnancy could be the solution to her problems. After two years, Rivers finds Cristina with the help of a detective, and he also learns the name of the person who caused the accident, Jack Jordan. Cristina is addicted to alcohol and ketamine again . Rivers tries to get closer to Cristina, initially with moderate success. But little by little, Cristina also seems to be interested in Rivers, and the two begin a desperate relationship. With him complications after the transplant become more and more noticeable, she cannot get over the death of her family.
The medical examinations after the accident had shown that a daughter could have been saved if Jordan had stayed at the scene and looked after her. Cristina believes she has to kill the driver involved in the accident, whom she has not yet cared about, and asks Rivers to kill him. Rivers gets a revolver and moves with Cristina to Jordan's motel. He sets this up on the way to work, but fails to shoot him. Rivers tells Jordan to leave without going back to the motel and tells Cristina in front of the motel that Jordan is dead. At night they are woken up by the noise outside the door. It is the guilty Jordan who has returned and now orders Rivers to kill him and end his misery. A scuffle breaks out and Rivers shoots Jordan, but only slightly injures him. While Cristina is hitting Jordan wildly with a floor lamp, Rivers, who can hardly breathe, tries to commit suicide and shoots himself in the chest. Cristina and Jordan drive the seriously injured man to the nearest hospital. There Jordan accuses himself of shooting Rivers and is arrested. Cristina wants to donate blood for Rivers, but this cannot be used due to her drug use. Through the blood tests, she also learns that Rivers is pregnant (the pregnancy of the soon-to-be-dying River, which his wife Mary tried to force, is now unwanted by Cristina). After the emergency operation, Rivers wakes up again in the intensive care unit, asks a few existential questions - the film begins and ends with this scene - and dies.
Cristina returns home and prepares for a new life with Rivers' child. Jordan is released and goes back to his family.
background
Production costs were estimated at $ 20 million. The film grossed around $ 60 million in cinemas worldwide, including $ 16 million in the United States.
synchronization
The synchronization was produced at Deutsche Synchron Film in Berlin. The dialogue book was written by Frank Schröder and the dialogue was directed by Marianne Groß .
| role | actor | speaker |
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| Cristina Peck | Naomi Watts | Irina von Bentheim |
| Paul Rivers | Sean Penn | Tobias Master |
| Jack Jordan | Benicio Del Toro | Torsten Michaelis |
| Alan | Kevin Chapman | Reinhard Scheunemann |
| Ana | Catherine Dent | Heike Schroetter |
| Brown | Paul Calderón | Hans-Jürgen Wolf |
| County sheriff | Lew Temple | Eberhard Prüter |
| Cristina's father | Jerry Chipman | Klaus Jepsen |
| Dr. Jones | Tom Irwin | Helmut Gauss |
| Dr. Molina | Roberto Medina | Bodo Wolf |
| Dr. Rothberg | Denis O'Hare | Jan Spitzer |
| gynecologist | John Rubinstein | Reinhard Kuhnert |
| Lucio | Carlo Alban | Frank Schröder |
| Marianne Jordan | Melissa Leo | Evelyn Marron |
| Mary Rivers | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Nana Spier |
| Michael | Danny Huston | Bernd Schramm |
| Nick | Nick Nichols | Björn Schalla |
| Reverend John | Eddie Marsan | Detlef Bierstedt |
| Trish | Annie Corley | Marianne Gross |
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James Berardinelli described the film on ReelViews as "highly recommended". He particularly praised the performances by Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio Del Toro.
"A sophisticatedly constructed, grippingly filmed drama with brilliant actors that calls for thought about how the dead and death affect the living."
Awards
The film, which received many awards, was nominated for the European Film Award as best non-European film. Numerous acting awards include nominations at the 2004 Academy Awards for Benicio Del Toro for Best Supporting Actor and Naomi Watts for Best Female Leading Role . Despite very good reviews, Sean Penn did not receive an Oscar nomination because, according to Oscar rules, an actor in the same category can only be nominated for one film in one year. His role in Mystic River , for which he was then even awarded, was given priority over the one in 21 grams .
The film received five BAFTA Award nominations in 2004 , including for Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio Del Toro. Sean Penn won the 2004 Golden Satellite Award ; Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga were nominated for the Golden Satellite Award. The film won the Independent Spirit Award (special award) in 2004 and was nominated for the César film award in 2005.
Sean Penn and Naomi Watts won the 2004 Florida Film Critics Circle Award . Sean Penn won the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award in 2004, Naomi Watts won the 2004 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award and the Online Film Critics Society Award .
The German Filmbewertungsstelle FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title “Particularly valuable”.
Psychostasis
- For an explanation of the title 21 grams, see the section Experiments on Scientific Psychostasia in the article Psychostasia .
Web links
- 21 grams in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- 21 grams atrotten tomatoes(English)
- Review of 21 grams at Filmstarts.de
- Official English website for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for 21 grams . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2003 (PDF; test number: 96 389 K).
- ↑ Age rating for 21 grams . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ 21 Grams (2003) - Box Office Mojo. Accessed August 31, 2019 .
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | 21 grams. Retrieved September 13, 2017 .
- ↑ a b gr at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed February 28, 2015
- ↑ a b [1] at Metacritic , accessed on February 28, 2015
- ↑ 21 grams in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ Review by James Berardinelli
- ↑ 21 grams. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Rule Six: Special Rules for the Acting Awards in the Academy Award Rules on oscars.org