Captive (2015)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Captive |
| Original title | Captive |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jerry Jameson |
| script | Brian Bird |
| production |
Lucas Akoskin , Terry Botwick , Alex Garcia , David Oyelowo , Ken Wales , Katrina Wolfe |
| music | Lorne Balfe |
| camera | Luis David Sansans |
| cut | Melissa Kent |
| occupation | |
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Captive is an American crime - thriller from Jerry Jameson from the year 2015 . The film is based on the book An Unlikely Angel of Ashley Smith , which tells it from the true events in the year of 2005. It is about her encounter with Brian Gene Nichols , who escaped from a prison in Fulton County in Atlanta , Georgia in 2005 , during which he killed several people. The film was released in German cinemas on September 17, 2015 and launched one day later in the USA.
action
On March 11, 2005, rape accused Brian Nichols escaped from the Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta at his hearing. He shoots his judge and the court reporter Julie Brandau. Nichols hides with single mother Ashley Smith and takes her hostage. Ashley is a widow and meth addict but is currently in therapy. A spiritual self-help book that was given to her and from which she reads to the hostage-taker breaks the ice between the two. Ashley starts a conversation with her tormentor about the flawed decisions of her past and the meaning of life. Meanwhile, a hunt for the escaped man is underway in the state of Georgia , and Detective John Chestnut is also on the heels of the criminal.
background
Captive (German: Gefangene ) is a film adaptation of the autobiography Der Unexpected Angel (Original Unlikely Angel: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero ) by Ashley Smith. The spiritual self-help book that she mentions in her book and that is also used in the film is the Christian life guide Life with Vision (Original: The Purpose Driven Life ) by the Californian pastor Rick Warren , which has been translated into many languages and has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
production
occupation
Kate Mara and David Oyelowo starred in the film.
Kate Mara (2015)
David Oyelowo (2015)
Michael K. Williams (2012)
Leonor Varela (2010)
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Filming
Filming began on October 13, 2013 and took place in North Carolina .
reception
criticism
German film critics often recognize religious propaganda in the film and criticize the excessive "pinch of US pathos" which, especially in the end, portrays belief in God as a way out of misery and thus almost drowns the film in "kitsch colors". Marius Zekri remarks that the whole film, its design and the material itself are perhaps too American for German moviegoers and that the acclaimed leading actors, despite all their efforts, fail to make great or at least mediocre cinema out of captive . Zekri also criticizes “cheap effects instead of tension, weaknesses in terms of content and a lot of pathos at the end”, which turn the actually strong story captive into a “sleeping pill among thrillers”. Even if the captive did not turn out to be an action film, as was often hoped: “The filmmakers stay close to the real events. So they opt for a dark intimate play rather than action noise. ”It was also criticized that Rick Warren's Life with Vision was a bestseller before and that the film is even more advertised.
Web links
- Captive in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Captive at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Captive at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for captives . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2015 (PDF; test number: 154 271 K).
- ↑ Captive In: moviepilot.de. Retrieved August 21, 2015.
- ↑ Kate Mara and David Oyelowo in the hostage drama 'Captive' by Jerry Jameson ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Kino-zeit.de, August 20, 2015.
- ↑ The kidnapping drama “Captive” as an intensive chamber play In: Focus Online, September 14, 2015.
- ^ Marius Zekri: Captive ( Memento from October 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bayerischer Rundfunk Online, September 14, 2015.
- ↑ The kidnapping drama “Captive” as an intensive chamber play In: Focus Online, September 14, 2015.
- ^ Doris Kuhn: Missioning from the garbage can In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Online, September 16, 2015.
