Coma (film, 2019)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Coma |
| Original title | coma |
| Country of production | Russia |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nikita Argunov |
| script | Nikita Argunov Aleksey Gravitskiy Timofei Dekin |
| production |
Sarik Andreasyan Gevond Andreasyan Ruben Dishdishyan Armen Ananikyan , Nikolay Larionov Lenny Levi Robert Mosoyan Wladimir Polyakov |
| music | Ilya Andrus |
| camera | Sergey Dyshuk |
| occupation | |
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Coma (Original title: Koma ) is a 2019 Russian film by Nikita Argunov .
action
A young architect wakes up from a dream in his apartment , but quickly finds that his surroundings are incomplete. As he leaves the house , he sees that the same applies to the people around him and that the world is made up of incomplete fragments of buildings and places that are connected in unnatural ways. He realizes that he can influence the environment through his willpower. When the architect is attacked by a black creature, three people - Fly, Phantom and Pilot - come to his aid with weapons. Pilot sacrifices himself by luring the monster away from the group and blowing himself up, saving the rest of them. However, Phantom was injured on the hand by the creature.
The architect learns that, like his companions, he is really in a coma and that the world around them is made up of interconnected memories of the coma patients. The architect and the woman named Fly are drawn to each other. He follows her and Phantom to a human base that can only be reached via an old omnibus .
The people hide here from the creatures called "reapers" and blow up the ever new access routes. You are looking for a safe “ island ” that the “reapers” cannot reach. Their leader is Yan, who has been around the longest and has woken up from a coma once before. He selects those coma patients who he thinks have special abilities that the group could use and who, like the architect, will be brought to the group. The architect is assigned an empty room that will soon be filled with his memories from the real world.
In the dream, the architect remembers working for a religious sect , a hospital and his stay there, as well as a car accident . When he wakes up, these memories grow from the back wall of his room. Phantom is surprised that the newcomer has such memories and warns him to enter the dream in front of his room. He sees it as a competitor to Fly and subjects it to a test, but the architect shows no suitability for combat.
When a group of people with special skills, led by Phantoms, set out to look for explosives in the coma world , the architect initially stayed with the ordinary workers. He learns from Yan that time in a coma is 100 times slower than in the real world. Yan asks the architect to challenge his special skills and orders him to join the squad.
On the way, map expert Link explains to the architect that he thinks one's dreams are the key to waking up. The architect also learns that the "Reaper" can transform the people of the coma world into creatures of their own kind. The squad moves to a factory site that is protected by reminded guards. Phantom provokes a battle, which is won by the troops, but Link accuses him of having lured the "Reaper". The troops reached a hangar with a submarine . They want to take the torpedo , which promises them a large supply of explosives, but several "Reaper" approach and Phantom orders to withdraw, while Gnom is to distract the "Reaper". The architect doesn't stick to it and when the torpedo is in free fall he manages to build a slide with his mind . The troops can escape with the torpedo.
Back at the base everyone is made aware of the architect's special ability and Yan decides that it should be the architect who should build the urgently needed safe “island” for people. The next day everyone wants to go to find the location for the safe "island". Yan transfers the leadership to Link, as he accuses Phantom of having lured the "Reaper" out of ruthlessness. When the architect wanted to try his skills alone during the night , he initially failed, but after a hint from Fly he was able to remember an earlier of his designs and to use it. Fly is impressed by his memories, remembers the past and both begin a love affair .
When Spirit senses the presence of the "Reaper" on the way, the group splits up to find a safe way. The architect, whose name “Viktor” Fly now knows, is attacked by a “Reaper”, but is saved by Tank. It turns out that Phantom intentionally used the architect as a decoy for the "Reaper". Since his injury, he has transformed into one of them, who now attack the group. When he tries to explain himself, Yan shoots him.
On the run from the "reapers", the architect begins to wake up from his coma. He remembers that he, Viktor, and his girlfriend, who appears in a coma as Fly, were on their way to a sect for which he was supposed to build a new city. This sect, led by Yan, is located in the hospital building. There he learned that the sect was keeping coma patients alive in the basement and that he should build the coma city for these people. He fled, but he and his girlfriend had an accident while driving and fell into a coma. He is now waking up on the sect's comastation. On the wall of the station is a photograph of the temple of Abu Simbel and Yan explains that the pharaohs already knew the world of the coma. Yan wants to give all followers of his sect a new life in a coma. Viktor wants to leave the place immediately, but Yan points out that his girlfriend is still in a coma and that as soon as a "reaper" takes possession of a patient, the brain tissue becomes necrosis . He promises Viktor to let everyone go if he builds the city for him in a coma and asserts that there is a back door in the coma. Viktor reluctantly agrees and is put into a coma again.
Viktor wakes up in his apartment again, but this time with his memories. Back at the group Fly, Link, Spirit and Tank, he reveals to the group about the construct of the Koma world. He builds the city that Yan wanted. Confronted with their real existence by Yan, the people disagree on whether they want to return or not. Viktor and his girlfriend had already split up in reality. Yan advises them that their knowledge poses a threat and that he had instructed the real world medics to turn off the oxygen so everyone would die at that moment. Due to the slower passage of time in the coma world, they would have about 15 minutes left.
The architect is aware that they have to find the back door to wake up to. He rushes with Fly and Link to his room in the base, where they enter his dream. It is the cult hospital, but the memory is incomplete and flawed. While looking for the back door, Viktor recognizes the temple of Abu Simbel, the photograph of which is hanging on the wall in the basement of the hospital, but Link dies. Yan is already there and the architect tries to turn him off, but fails because Yan stimulated his brain before going into the coma. When Viktor and his girlfriend start the process of dying, Yan is caught by a "reaper" who reveals himself to be a phantom and lets go of the other two. Viktor can wake up from the coma through the back door. He immediately removed the intubation from his girlfriend, who barely survived. Both flee while the carers see on a monitor that Yan's brain, who is still in a coma, is dying.
Back home, Viktor and his girlfriend see on television that all criminal charges against the cult have been dropped. Viktor tells his girlfriend that he has been accepted for an important position. At the same time he looks at the sect's business card.
production
The budget was four million dollars.
The director saw his role models in Star Wars , Blade Runner , Terminator , Aliens - The Return and Back to the Future . As co-writer of the script, he was inspired by Robert A. Heinlein , Philip K. Dick , Ray Bradbury and Harry Harrison . In contrast, references to Doctor Strange are accidental.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Viktor / architect | Rinal Mukhametov | Valentin Stilu |
| phantom | Anton Pampushnyy | Tommy Morgenstern |
| Yan | Konstantin Nikolajewitsch Lavronenko | Frank Röth |
| tank | Vilen Babichev | Marco Kroeger |
| Cable | Leonid Timtsunik | Tobias Lelle |
| Fly | Lyubov Aksyonova | Alice Bauer |
| gnome | Rostislav Gulbis | Christoph Banks |
| link | Milos Bikovic | David Turba |
| Spirit | Polina Kuzminskaya | Sonja Spuhl |
| assistant | Sergei Gilev | Viktor Neumann |
reception
Lutz Granert saw a connection to Inception by Christopher Nolan and Matrix der Wachowskis :
“'Coma' scores above all with its impressive appearance. Because the world consists of incoherent memories, streets from New York, China or Venice as well as an underwater scene with a submarine at tilted angles are literally just a stone's throw away from each other and linked in a network reminiscent of synapses. These places are part of a parallel world in which all coma patients on earth end up and which, in addition to memories, also feeds on the empty spaces and incompleteness of human memory. Where Christopher Nolan surreally deformed Paris in 'Inception' and thus penetrated deeper and deeper into his dream worlds, Nikita Argunov now lets his protagonists and with them the audience discover new fantastic scenes again and again - until Viktor suddenly froze in front of you in the middle of the clouds Airplane stands. [...]
'Matrix' sends its regards in various places: Above all, the love story between the potential savior Viktor, who can create entire (dream) cities with the mere idea of building plans, and the martial Fly shows clear parallels to the romance between Neo and Trinity , but is much clumsier and less touching. [...]
At some point you have seen enough of the fascinating worlds of memory - and beneath a half-hearted criticism of religion there is no false bottom, no socio-political undertone. A bit of humor and a little more depth would have done 'Coma' a lot, especially when squinting at the role models across the pond. "
Falk Straub also saw the role models, but missed a socially critical level:
“Breathtaking views - somewhere between Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010) and Juan Solanas' Upside Down (2013). Like Nolan and Solanas, Argunov is not that particular about logic. Together with his co-authors Timofei Dekin and Aleksey Gravitskiy, he catapults us into a world whose abstruse laws have to accept if you want to have fun with the plot. [...]
All of this looks primarily dazzling, for example when a submarine is floating in the air or an airplane hangs motionless in the sky.
We are looking in vain for a political or socially critical level, which in science fiction likes to hide under the surface. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for COMA . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Coma. In: Geek Germany. April 13, 2020, accessed June 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Volker Schönenberger: Coma (2019) - Inverted World. In: The Night of Living Texts. April 8, 2020, accessed June 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Coma. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on June 6, 2020 .
- ^ Lutz Granert: Critique of the Filmstarts editorial team. In: film starts . Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Falk Straub: COMA (2019). A film review by Falk Straub. In: cinema time. Retrieved June 10, 2020 .