Disturbia (film)

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Movie
German title Disturbia
Original title Disturbia
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director DJ Caruso
script Carl Ellsworth
Christopher B. Landon
production Jackie Marcus
Joe Medjuck
E. Bennett Walsh
music Geoff Zanelli
camera Rogier Stoffers
cut Jim Page
occupation

Disturbia is an American thriller from director DJ Caruso and starring Shia LaBeouf from 2007. The plot of the film is a reinterpretation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 The Window to the Courtyard .

action

17-year-old Kale goes on a fishing trip with his father. On the way home, the car has a serious traffic accident in which Kale's father is killed. A year later, Kale's school performance fell. The situation escalates when Kale hits his Spanish teacher in the face with his fist, who asks him what his father would think of his academic performance.

For this act, the underage Kale is punished with three months of house arrest during the summer holidays and receives an electronic ankle cuff that gives him a range of around 30 meters in and around his parents' house. First he tries to pass the time with video games and music. However, when his mother terminates his online accounts for his game console and music downloads, Kale turns to other pursuits.

After the attractive Ashley has moved into the neighboring house, Kale increasingly begins to spy on his neighbors with binoculars. He receives support from his school friend Ronnie. Ashley notices the observation and confronts the two of them. She befriends the two teenagers. Kale and Ashley develop feelings for each other. When Kale hears on the news about a serial killer from Texas who left numerous woman corpses in the partition walls of the house he last lived in and is hanging around in a blue damaged 1960 Ford Mustang , he suspects his neighbor Robert Turner, whose Mustang the is the same color and is also damaged.

After mysterious sightings and various nightly video recordings, the three young people are sure that Turner must be the culprit. After Ronnie broke into Turner's car to get the radio frequency for the door opener in the vehicle for the garage door of the neighbor, in whose garage they suspect a corpse, he forgets his cell phone in the car. Ronnie then tries to get it back with Kale's help. However, this is caught by Turner and chased by him through his house. Kale then leaves the permitted area of ​​his ankle cuffs to rush to his friend's aid. The police are alerted by his activated ankle cuff and arrive with several vehicles. After a cursory search of Turner's house, nothing unusual was found. In the sack in which the three youths suspected a corpse is only a dead deer, which Turner claims to have hit, but has not yet been able to bury it.

Ronnie is gone for hours until he ventures out of Kale's closet, where he has hidden from the police to avoid being charged with trespassing. While Kale's mother tries to apologize to Turner to prevent him from filing a complaint against her convicted son, Kale discovers the body of a woman in the background on the video that Ronnie filmed in Turner's house while he was on the run. Meanwhile, Turner knocks down Kale's mother and then shows up at Kale's house, where he overpowers Ronnie and ties Kale up. Ashley, who appears surprisingly, manages to temporarily turn off her opponent Turner together with Kale and to remove Kale's bonds. Kale then goes to the house next door to look for his mother, while Ashley calls the police.

In the process, Kale comes across a preparation room and a kind of dungeon in which all the corpses of the serial killer lie. Kale finds his mother and later kills Turner when he tries to kill him and his mother. Due to his courageous and committed intervention, Kale is prematurely released from his electronic ankle cuff due to good leadership. In the final sequence you see Kale and Ashley kissing on the sofa by Ronnie.

background

Due to the similarity of the plot to the film Das Fenster zum Hof from 1954, which is based on the 1942 published short story It Had to Be Murder by crime novelist Cornell Woolrich , the filmmakers were sued for copyright infringement in 2008 . In 2010 the case went to court and was ultimately rejected by the US District Court, as reported by The Guardian, among others. The reason is only a superficial similarity between Woolrich's short story and the film by DJ Caruso. Disturbia would have a whole bunch of storylines not featured in the short story. In addition, the basic atmosphere of both works is completely different. Here the judges mainly cited the interpretation of Christopher Landon's Disturbia script as a teenage story. Another lawsuit by the Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust against Studio Universal, which has secured all rights to Alfred Hitchcock's works in the past, also failed.

The film title Disturbia is a made-up word, formed as a suitcase word from disturb ( English "disturb, worry ") and suburbia ( English "suburb"). Since the film's plot is located in a suburb and there very disturbing (ger .: disturbing are) observations made this term sums up the movie content coincidently. Disturbia is also the plural of the Latin word disturbium, which means prevention or disruption.

Steven Spielberg, who was involved in the production of the film through DreamWorks SKG, was impressed by Shia LaBeouf's 2003 performance in The Secret of Green Lake , which is why he suggested him for the lead role in the film. Because of the collaboration with him in Disturbia , Spielberg was convinced that he could cast him in Transformers and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull .

The film was shot entirely in California , on various locations and at Paramount Studios . The houses of Kale and Mr. Turner, who appear to be facing each other in the film, are actually in two different cities.

Many product placements were made in the film aimed at the predominantly young target group. In addition to a specific mobile phone manufacturer and a hardware and software manufacturer, the emblems of special beverage manufacturers can be specifically seen. An LCD television, an HD camcorder and various consoles are also used. Furthermore, sports shoes can be seen in close-up. A large poster of a skateboard company hanging on the ceiling is also clearly presented.

Production costs were estimated at around $ 20 million. The film grossed around US $ 117 million in cinemas around the world, around US $ 80 million of that in the United States.

It was released in theaters in the USA on April 13, 2007 and in Germany on September 20, 2007.

On Kale's desktop you can read “Let Me Free” (Eng .: “Let me free”).

Reviews

James Berardinelli describes Disturbia as a "nice little crime thriller". According to his film review , the actors do not have the same screen presence as James Stewart , Grace Kelly and Raymond Burr , the actors from " The Window to the Courtyard ".

Christoph Petersen von Filmstarts notes that the film represents a “crude genre mix” - sometimes comedy , sometimes romance - and consciously influences the viewer in different ways through cleverly used stylistic devices. With his “playful style” he is “a lot of fun”.

According to the Lexicon of International Films, “the film cannot create a coherent arc of suspense in spite of decent acting performances; Shock elements do not hide logical breaks. The coupling of the well-known crime plot with the mourning work for the dead father is attractive. "

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

Film music

The "Disturbia: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" for the film was released by Lakeshore Records on March 4, 2007 and includes the following titles:

  1. Nada Surf - Always Love
  2. This World Fair - Don't Make Me Wait
  3. Guster - One Man Wrecking Machine
  4. Louque - Whoa Now
  5. Love Stink - Gangsta Boogie
  6. Buckcherry - Next To You
  7. Afroman - Because I Got High
  8. Noiseshaper - We Love Reggae
  9. The Summer Skinny - The Great American Napkin
  10. Priscilla Ahn - Dream
  11. Minnie Riperton - Lovin 'You
  12. Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine

In addition, the following titles can be heard in the film, but they are not included on the soundtrack:

Furthermore, the following score by Geoff Zanelli and Bruce Fowler was also released on Lakeshore Records on July 10, 2007 :

  1. Disturbia - 7:02
  2. Fishing - 3:52
  3. Poofoot - 1:15
  4. Voyeurism - 2:35
  5. Every Killer Lives Next Door to Someone - 3:35
  6. I Like to Play - 1:46
  7. Stealth Ranie - 5:10
  8. Walking Ashley Home - 2:01
  9. The Club Girl - 2:47
  10. Stalking a Killer - 7:15
  11. The Basement Graveyard - 8:50

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Disturbia . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2007 (PDF; test number: 109 634 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Disturbia . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/09/is-disturbia-a.html
  4. ↑ http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0486822/locations
  5. ↑ http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0486822/business
  6. ↑ http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0486822/releaseinfo
  7. ^ Reelviews.net: film review , James Berardinelli , April 13, 2007
  8. ^ Film review , film starts , Christoph Petersen
  9. ↑ Disturbia. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  10. ↑ a b soundtrackinfo.com