Chat room (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Chat room |
| Original title | Chat room |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hideo Nakata |
| script | Enda Walsh |
| production | Laura Hastings-Smith , Alison Owen |
| music | Kenji Kawai |
| camera | Benoît Delhomme |
| cut | Masahiro Hirakubo |
| occupation | |
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Chat Room is a British thriller by director Hideo Nakata from the year 2010. The international premiere took place at the Film Festival in Cannes in 2010 instead.
action
The son of a wealthy family and the son of a children's author, William opens a chat room called Chelsea Teens! . Soon Eva, Jim, Emily and Mo start talking to William and making friends. What they don't know, however, is that William is pathologically jealous of his successful brother, who is the model for the protagonist of his mother's books. He was being treated by a psychologist for several suicide attempts.
In the chat room he appears helpful and friendly. But it soon becomes clear how manipulative he is. He instigates Emily to fake attacks on the family so that the family can get closer and give them the more attention they long for.
Mo, who has fallen in love with his friend's 11-year-old sister, asks William for advice because he believes he is considered a pedophile. He follows William's advice to confide in his friend and endangers their friendship.
For Eva, he hacks into a model database in order to manipulate the data of a former friend, which breaks her neck professionally.
Following a suicide video by an Asian girl, William takes a liking to the violence again, but instead of turning it on himself, he looks for other victims.
He discovers a dubious chat room called Ultimo Quarto (dt. The last room ), in which a boy is made ready by 20 elderly people until he finally kills himself. William himself does not take part. He stands in a corner and enjoys the spectacle.
As the five friends talk about more intimate things, they learn that Jim is taking antidepressants because his father abandoned him at the London Zoo as a child. At that moment, William realizes his chance to direct his lust for violence on Jim. He persuades him to get off the antidepressants on his own and confronts him in an extreme way with his past in order to make him commit suicide. William even gets Jim a gun for it.
When Eva, Emily and Mo try to talk Jim out of his suicidal intentions, it seems too late because William hacked into their PCs too. Only in reality can they help Jim now.
When Jim tries to kill himself with a gun in a toilet, Eva walks into the chat room and doesn't get him to pull the trigger. On the way home, Jim is tracked down and followed by William. When he caught up with him, he tried to convince him to shoot himself. But then Eva, Emily and Mo arrive with his friend who has helped them get into the chat. They called the police, but before they arrest William, he jumps in front of a train. The film ends with William walking down the virtual corridor of the chat rooms with the lights going out. Before the last light goes out, William says "now".
Reviews
“The visually strong, but rather weak thriller, entices with a current topic about the dark side of the Internet and its dangers. Basically attractive, the implementation fails due to pauses in tension and stereotypes that cannot be masked by the appealing exterior. "
Special
As a narrative device, the chat room is shown in the film as a real room in which the protagonists meet and sit in a circle of chairs and talk face to face.
production
The film was shot in early 2010 at Shepperton Studios in Shepperton , England . Some of the outdoor shots were shot in the London borough of Camden and its Primrose Hill borough. The film is based on a script by Enda Walsh , who wrote the play of the same name.
Web links
- Chat room in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate of the FSK (PDF), accessed on June 13, 2014
- ↑ Film review for Chatroom on Filmfutter.com. Retrieved November 15, 2013 .