If you die, your whole life will pass you by, they say

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Movie
German title If you die, your whole life will pass you by, they say
Original title Before I fall
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Ry Russo-Young
script Maria Maggenti
production Matthew Kaplan ,
Brian Robbins ,
Jonathan Shestack
music Adam Taylor
camera Michael Fimognari
cut Joe Landauer
occupation

If you die, your whole life will pass you by, they say it is a 2017 American film by director Ry Russo-Young and is based on the 2010 novel "Before I Fall" by Lauren Oliver . The film was released in the United States on March 3, 2017. The cinema release in Germany was on June 1, 2017.

action

Samantha and her friends Lindsay, Ally and Elody drive to school on the morning of “Cupid Day”, a kind of local Valentine's Day, where they are among the hottest girls. During the day they talk about Sam's plan to sleep with their boyfriend for the first time at the party in the evening, gossip and in her presence about the outsider Juliet and later prepare for the party.

Juliet also turns up there uninvited, insults the four girls out of anger about the bullying attacks and is rudely chased away by them. After this argument, the four of them want to drive home immediately, but a car accident occurs on the way back.

The next morning, Sam wakes up again on "Cupid Day" and everything goes like the day before. From now on she experiences this day again and again and she realizes that she is trapped in a time warp. She tries in vain to escape it by changing her behavior in certain situations. In doing so, she follows a pattern of coping with grief : First she denies reality, then she lets her anger run free and finally she surrenders to acceptance ; only when she sacrifices her life for that of the bullied Juliet, no new awakening follows.

reception

The film grossed approximately $ 12 million in the United States by the end of April 2017.

Reviews

Kai Mihm from epd Film criticizes that the film carries its "supposed profundity with deadly serious gestures". With this "grandiose gesture, the final message of sincerity and charity seems all the more trivial," and the entire film is "just as bumpy and pretentious [...] as its German title."

The review by the Catholic Film Service sums up that the film “captures the youthful emotional life quite aptly”, but the staging is exhausted “in a one-dimensional routine until all characters are purified”.

Daniel Kothenschulte of the Frankfurter Rundschau remarks that director Ry Russo-Young "very consciously" plays with the "irritation" of showing the "outright bitch as the protagonist of a high school film". "While the rituals of bullying are a central motif in the novel", the director with her staging "also made the rituals of the cinema the topic". The exaggerations to which young people tended to be captured “subtly and far removed from the caricature.” Among other things, through the choice of color and distanced image guidance, she opened up “an otherworldly perspective on the all too familiar”. For a seemingly formulaic youth film, this is a "demanding concept".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for When you die, your whole life will pass you by, they say . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for When you die, your whole life will pass you by, they say . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Before I Fall. In: Box Office Mojo . April 27, 2017, accessed September 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Kai Mihm: Review. In: epd film . Evangelical Press Service, 2017, accessed on September 20, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Brief review. 2017, accessed September 20, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Daniel Kothenschulte: And every day the goat terror greets you. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . 2017, accessed September 20, 2017 .