Carriers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Carriers |
| Original title | Carriers |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Àlex Pastor , David Pastor |
| script | Àlex Pastor, David Pastor |
| production |
Ray Angelic , Anthony Bregman , Robert Velo |
| music | Peter Nashel |
| camera | Benoît Debie |
| cut | Craig McKay |
| occupation | |
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Carriers is an American end -of-time film from 2009. It was directed by Spanish brothers Àlex and David Pastor , who also wrote the script.
The film celebrated its German premiere on August 18, 2009 as part of the 23rd Fantasy Film Festival . The official German theatrical release was on October 1st, 2009.
action
A highly contagious virus kills large parts of the population. Humanity is facing the transition from civil togetherness to post-apocalyptic anomie . The two brothers Danny and Brian try together with Brian's girlfriend Bobby and Danny's shy school friend Kate to make their way to the west coast of the United States in a Mercedes. The remote destination, where the brothers spent carefree youth, is intended to serve as a safe refuge. The four adolescents act according to rules that they have drawn up themselves: mouth and nose protection , constant disinfection and the understanding that infected people are inevitably doomed to die and must be left behind, are intended to minimize the risk of an infectious disease.
On the way, they come across a worried father who wants to take his already infected little daughter to a nearby hospital ward. Although Brian urges his fellow travelers to suppress their interpersonal feelings, the others try to help them both. The first tensions within the group become apparent. Nevertheless, the two people seeking help are given a ride by increasing their own security measures again. Young people's compassion, however, ends fatally. Bobby becomes infected - and initially hides the incident. While the two fellow travelers are left to their fate in a no longer functioning hospital ward, the four young people continue their journey.
On their onward journey they come across a remote hotel. The four spontaneously decide to relax, not realizing that the place is already home to an armed group of men. When they drive away the four friends a little later, as they meanwhile identify Bobby as infected, the group breaks up completely. Bobby is kicked out of the community by Brian with a heavy heart. As they continue their journey, the three of them stop an oncoming car to get gasoline. When the two inmates refuse, Brian unceremoniously draws the pistol and a shootout breaks out, in which the two women die and Brian is wounded. A little later, Danny tries to take care of Brian's wound and realizes that Brian has also become infected.
During a night's rest, Danny takes the gun from the weakened Brian and tries to escape with Kate. Brian still has the car keys, however, and makes it clear to Danny that he doesn't want to be left alone. Danny sees no other solution than to shoot his brother, also to save him suffering. In an open ending, Danny and Kate finally arrive at the Pacific West Coast, with Danny remembering their childhood vacation there with his brother.
Reviews
Carriers describes Film-Zeit as "a gripping and threatening end-time scenario" that fits "perfectly between psychological art house and lavishly produced mainstream thrill". Jörg Gerle said in the film service that the film lacks the drama of a pandemic, that the situation is still “in the green” despite the disaster, which gives the film an “involuntary comedy”.
Rob Nelson wrote for Variety that Carriers was spreading a bleak vision of post-pandemic fear with terrifying success. However, the narrative abbreviations made the film look a bit pale in places.
Similar to Simon Crook for the British magazine Empire : The actors portray the tension in the group well, but the film lacks a sense of the catastrophe: “There is a film here that portrays mass extinction so comfortably that it even stops along the way, to play golf. "It was a" grumpy, engaging end-of-the-world horror drama, maybe a little too narrow-gauge apocalypse. "
Web links
- Carriers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official English website
- Carriers at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions PG-13 theatrical version - FSK 16 / R-Rated by Carriers at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ CARRIERS. (No longer available online.) Www.film-zeit.de, archived from the original on May 30, 2015 ; Retrieved February 21, 2010 . 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.
- ^ Jörg Gerle: Carriers. (No longer available online.) In: film-dienst . Archived from the original on October 13, 2009 ; Retrieved February 21, 2010 . 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.
- ^ Rob Nelson: Carriers. (No longer available online.) In: Variety . September 7, 2009, archived from the original on March 6, 2010 ; accessed on February 21, 2010 (English). 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.
- ↑ Simon Crook: Carriers. In: Empire . Retrieved February 21, 2010 .
