The stranger in you

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Movie
German title The stranger in you
Original title The Brave One
Country of production USA , Australia
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 122 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Neil Jordan
script Roderick Taylor ,
Bruce A. Taylor ,
Cynthia Mort
production Susan Downey ,
Joel Silver
music Dario Marianelli
camera Philippe Rousselot
cut Tony Lawson
occupation

The Stranger In You (Original Title: The Brave One ) is a thriller by director Neil Jordan from 2007 with Jodie Foster in the lead role.

action

As the radio host of the show Street Walk , Erica Bain deals with the pulsating life of the city of New York . She leads a happy and contented life with her fiancé, the doctor David Kirmani, until she is the victim of a brutal crime in Central Park . David is murdered in a robbery carried out by three perpetrators , and she herself is seriously injured. These heal externally without major complications, but Erica is psychologically unstable and insecure from then on. The loss of her fiancé gives her a hard time. She fears the city she once loved. For Erica, New York is no longer the liveable place her radio show dealt with, but gloomy and dangerous.

By buying an illegal firearm, Erica tries to regain her lost security. Later she witnesses the murder of a saleswoman in a shop. Since the perpetrator noticed her presence in the shop, she shot the perpetrator in self-defense. She steals the tape from the surveillance camera and leaves the store undetected. In the evening she speaks on her dictation machine that she has discovered “a stranger” in herself.

The next day, she shot two attackers in the subway who threatened her with a knife. She later blames herself: she only had to show the gun to scare the men away. A day later, she frees the teenage prostitute Chloe, who has been trapped in his car for days by a taxi driver. Chloe is hit by the taxi driver after Erica kills him and he loses control of his car. When Chloe asked who she was, she replied: "I'm nobody".

Over time, a new feeling develops in Erica and the fear gradually disappears. The city's media will soon be reporting on the “dark avenging angel”. New York City Police Department officer Sean Mercer is due to investigate the matter. The first traces lead to Erica, with whom he befriends. He tells her about an organized crime boss he has been pursuing unsuccessfully for years. Erica ambushes him and kills him the following night.

She produces a radio broadcast about the "Angel of Revenge", whose deeds are praised by many of the audience. Mercer suspects that Erica is the Angel of Revenge and takes her to the hospital where Chloe was admitted. When Erica is recognized by the girl and she tells her to tell the truth, Chloe claims she saw "Nobody".

Mercer asks Erica to go to a police station confrontation to identify her fiancé David's killer. Although she recognizes the perpetrator, she claims that he was not there. She learns that the police have got hold of the alleged murderer because his girlfriend Shauna was arrested while trying to move Erica's ring, which the perpetrators had stolen during the attack, to a pawn shop.

Erica finally tracks down Shauna. She doesn't want to reveal her boyfriend's address, but later she sends Erica an MMS with the address and an apology. There is also a video attached to the MMS showing a scene that one of the three perpetrators who attacked Erica and David recorded during the crime. She forwards the video to Mercer via MMS and makes her way to the address. Mercer goes there too.

Erica kills two of the perpetrators. However, the third succeeds in overpowering them. When the situation seems hopeless for them, Mercer arrives and forces the perpetrator to lie down on the floor. Erica reaches for her gun to complete her revenge. Rather than dissuade her, however, Mercer recommends that she do so with a registered weapon and give her his own weapon. Erica shoots the killer. With her unregistered weapon, she shoots Mercer in the shoulder at his insistence, so it looks like the killer shot Mercer, so that Mercer had to put him down in self-defense. Finally, Mercer slips Erica's weapon to the dead man to attribute the murders to him and to perfect the deception.

Over time, Erica loses her regained security more and more, and she doesn't know whether she herself has become what she actually wanted to fight. In the final scene, she returns to the place where everything started with the robbery. Her voice declares that there is no return to her previous life or to the person she once was - the stranger remains in her.

background

  • The original script writers are Roderick Taylor and his son Bruce A. Taylor. The script for the film was then written with Cynthia Mort.
  • Jodie Foster personally suggested Neil Jordan to direct, and the producers immediately agreed.
  • For Neil Jordan, an important element in the preparatory phase was to find suitable New York locations that were previously unknown in films in order to paint an unfamiliar picture of the city.
  • The audience sees the story primarily through the eyes of the main character Erica Bain, so that her feelings can be better expressed.
  • The film had its world premiere on September 6, 2007 at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival . It celebrated its German premiere in Berlin on September 13th and was shown in German cinemas on September 27th.
  • On the opening weekend, the film topped the US box office chart with grossing US $ 13.5 million. In total, it grossed around 70 million US dollars in cinemas worldwide, including around 36.8 million US dollars in the USA.

Film music

  • You Don't Know Me - Elvis Presley
  • Answer - Sarah McLachlan
  • I Can't Get Next To You - Al Green
  • Burning On Both Ends - Willie Singleton
  • Black Betty - Ram Jam
  • Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya - Dr. John
  • We Get Money Around Here - B Smoove
  • Everybody Can You Feel The Vibe - Blade and Brezza
  • Hits From The Bong - Cypress Hill
  • Ven Aqui Mama - Sergio Veneno
  • The Illest - Immortal Technique , Jean Grae and Pumpkinhead

criticism

Michael Rechtsshaffen wrote in The Hollywood Reporter on August 30, 2007 that viewers inevitably think of the movie Taxi Driver . The "powerful" portrayal of Jodie Foster gives her a good chance of receiving awards. The direction by Neil Jordan is "carefully considered".

Roger Ebert pulls in his review in the Chicago Sun-Times on 13 September 2007 comparisons to other "revenge movies" ( revenge movies ) as the Death Wish series with Charles Bronson and the recently tarnished Death Sentence - death sentence with Kevin Bacon . He writes: Neil Jordan's “Characters do not deliberately deceive, but are pushed into their roles by their lives and find no way out. Often you can feel their desperate desire to make a confession. This psychological suspense is what makes 'The Brave One' so fascinating. "

Birgit Glombitza also compared The Stranger in You in Die Zeit with other revenge films, but came to the conclusion that with this film “the avenging film has now clearly reached its lowest point”: as “morally questionable urban confrontation therapy”.

Rajko Burchardt from Manifest - Das Filmmagazin writes: “The further murders as an act of self-retaliation are never questioned. [...] Whether a robbery in the liquor store or a rabble in the subway - the film follows a constant moral line, sympathies should always lie with the battered presenter, without looking for causes in social and / or political institutions. "He criticized the end of the film in particular:" The end of the film is really uncomfortable, almost grotesque, when Terrence Howard, as a good-natured policeman who himself is detached from Justitia, hands the weepy Foster the gun in order to finally shoot the gangleader . "

The lexicon of the international film judges: "A film of revenge, forced into an intellectual cloak, flimsy asserting the moral necessity of vigilante justice, which superficially and negligently engages in its populist thesis."

Awards

  • Jodie Foster was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and received an Audience Award nomination at the Irish Film and Television Awards in 2008.
  • The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “particularly valuable”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the stranger in you . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2007 (PDF; test number: 111 474 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for The Stranger In You . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2007 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wwws.warnerbros.de
  4. ↑ boxofficeguru.com , accessed February 2, 2008
  5. ↑ boxofficemojo.com
  6. ↑ Film review by Michael Rechtshaffen, accessed on September 17, 2007 ( Memento from August 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ "His characters are not deliberately deceptive, but have been pushed into their roles by their lives and don't see a way out. Often you sense in them a desperate urge to confess. That kind of psychological suspense is what makes" The Brave One "spellbinding." See rogerebert.suntimes.com , accessed September 17, 2007
  8. ^ “Jodie sees red”, DIE ZEIT, September 27, 2007 No. 40, accessed on September 28, 2007
  9. ↑ http://www.dasmanifest.com/01/fremdeindir.php
  10. ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9
  11. ^ Irish Film and Television Awards: 2008. Internet Movie Database , accessed September 1, 2013 .
  12. ↑ The stranger in you on fbw-filmbeval.com