Eye for an Eye (2013)

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Movie
German title eye to eye
Original title Out of the furnace
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Scott Cooper
script Brad Ingelsby ,
Scott Cooper
production Michael Costigan ,
Leonardo DiCaprio ,
Ryan Kavanaugh ,
Jennifer Davisson Killoran ,
Ridley Scott ,
Tony Scott
music Dickon Hinchliffe
camera Masanobu Takayanagi
cut David Rosenbloom
occupation

Eye for an eye (in the original Out of the Furnace ) is an American film drama by Scott Cooper from the year 2013 .

action

The film begins at the time of the primaries for the presidential election in the United States in 2008 with a brutal attack by the antagonist Harlan DeGroat on a helpful visitor in a drive-in movie .

Iraq veteran Rodney and his brother Russell Baze care for their bedridden father, but can barely provide for their own living. Russell works at the local steel mill to secretly use the money to pay off his brother's debts and enable his girlfriend Lena to have a good life. However, because Russell is drunk in a devastating traffic accident, he has to serve a longer sentence.

When Russell is released, the father is dead and Lena is pregnant by her new boyfriend. Because of his debts, his brother Rodney allowed himself to be coerced into illegal street boxing matches by the shady bookmaker John Petty. Rodney urges the bookmaker to get him one last fight in a remote Appalachian village before he - following his brother's advice - tries to find a legal job. John Petty initially refuses, but is finally persuaded by Rodney. In the lead up to the fight, John introduces Rodney to the drug addict and violent Harlan DeGroat. It turns out that John himself has debts to DeGroat and wants to get rid of them by manipulating the fight. It is agreed that Rodney should lose the fight, which Rodney does despite initial difficulties. After the fight, DeGroat demands money from John regardless of the agreement he kept. However, he has no more money with him, which is why he and Rodney stopped on the drive home and are shot by DeGroat.

The fact comes to light when John accidentally called a friend on his cell phone and his mailbox recorded the conversations and John's death. From Russell's point of view, there is still hope of finding his brother alive, as only the shot at John can be heard on the mailbox. The policeman Barnes, who is the new boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend Lena, tells him about the current status of the investigation and has to admit to Russell that his hands are largely tied due to different areas of responsibility. Russell feels abandoned and goes on a search for his brother and the alleged perpetrators together with his uncle Red.

By researching John's environment, they track down DeGroat, who is now also wanted by the police. You go to the Appalachians and find DeGroat's house. However, the two are discovered by a patrol car, which was ordered by Barnes to either arrest them for their own protection or to accompany them to the state border. Back home one morning, Russell learns from the chief that a hunting dog has found Rodney's body in New Jersey .

Russell finds DeGroat's phone number in John's office and lures him into an ambush by pretending to be John's successor, who would pay his debts if he showed up to get the money. The attack on DeGroat fails, however, and he manages to flee towards the steelworks. Here comes the showdown between Russell and DeGroat: Russell shoots the now unarmed DeGroat with a hunting rifle in the leg and in the stomach. The shots cause a deployment of Barnes, who drives to the steel mill and tries with drawn gun to dissuade Russell from killing DeGroat. Russell kills DeGroat with a headshot without Barnes intervention.

In the final scene, Russell is sitting alone at the dining table in his parents' house.

Reviews

"Christian Bale delivers one of the strongest performances of his career, but the unnecessarily slow narrated plot unfortunately cannot keep up with the consistently fantastic actors."

- Christoph Petersen on Filmstarts .de

“A questionable revenge story that seems to have fallen out of time, which is not content with the genre specifications, but broadly expanded to include a milieu study, contemporary diagnosis, workers' film and war returnees drama without being able to cope with all of this in terms of staging or dramaturgic. The top-class film also has no relation to the questionable outcome. "

- Filmdienst .de

“In many ways, 'Eye for an Eye' is reminiscent of 'Those who go through Hell': the consistently grandiose actors, a gray working-class city as the setting, the joyless mood and the desperation of the characters. Well-being cinema is different. But if you are fascinated by dark topics, then this is the place for you. "

- Cinema .de

background

The film premiered at the AFI Film Festival on November 9, 2013. After various other screenings at international film festivals, it was first shown in selected cinemas in New York City and Los Angeles on December 4, 2013 , before moving to North America nationwide two days later hit the cinemas. The film started in Germany on April 3, 2014.

Trivia

At the beginning, the film The Midnight Meat Train is shown in the drive-in cinema .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Approval certificate for an eye for an eye . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2014 (PDF; test number: 143 879 K).
  2. Age rating for an eye for an eye . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ An eye for an eye on Filmstarts.de
  4. ↑ An eye for an eye on Filmdienst.de
  5. ↑ An eye for an eye on Cinema.de