Bastard (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bastard |
| Original title | Filth |
| Country of production | Scotland , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jon S. Baird |
| script | Jon S. Baird |
| production | Jon S. Baird, Christian Angermayer , Mark Amin , Will Clarke , Stephen Mao , Ken Marshall , James McAvoy , Jens Meurer , Celine Rattray , Trudie Styler |
| music | Clint Mansell |
| camera | Matthew Jensen |
| cut | Mark Eckersley |
| occupation | |
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Drecksau (original title: Filth , German dirt ) is a Scottish film from 2013 by Jon S. Baird . The film is based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh . James McAvoy plays the leading role . He plays an Edinburgh police officer with eccentric, bigoted behaviors and bipolar disorder.
The film opened on September 27, 2013 in Scotland and on October 4 in the rest of the UK and Ireland . The German theatrical release was on October 17, 2013.
action
Bruce Robertson is a corrupt Edinburgh cop who drinks and is addicted to cocaine. He abuses his job-related position of power for little games, intrigues with colleagues and sexual escapades. He even gets his only, somewhat naive friend Clifford into trouble again and again. He tries by all means to win the race for promotion against his colleagues. When his supervisor assigns him the case of the murder of a Japanese guest student, he sees his chance to make a name for himself. However, working on the case is visibly troubling him and he suffers from increasingly intense hallucinations.
It turns out that Robertson has bipolar disorder and dissociative identity disorder and accidentally killed his brother as a child. He was also abandoned by his wife, who forbade him to have any contact with their daughter. In order to be close to his wife, he wears her clothes in his spare time.
While walking through the streets in his wife's clothes, he gets into a fight with the gang responsible for the death of the guest student. Although he manages to overpower the leader and kill him, he is then picked up by his colleagues. Robertson not only misses his chance for promotion, but is even demoted to constable as a result of the events , while his colleague Ray Lennox is promoted to detective inspector.
The film ends with Clifford watching a tape on which Bruce apologizes for his actions. Bruce is preparing to commit suicide by hanging when he is interrupted by a woman and her child whom he can see indistinctly through the glass framing of his front door. Robertson, breaking through the fourth wall , turns directly to the audience and repeats his motto “The rules apply without ifs or buts!” One last time, whereupon the chair falls over under him.
criticism
International reviews
"A bulked-up James Mc Avoy dominates the screen in this razor-sharp Glasgow smile of a black comedy, packed with aberrant sex, hard drugs and maximum David Soul."
" A muscle-bound James McAvoy dominates the big screen in this razor-sharp black comedy packed with abnormal sex, hard drugs, and loud David Soul ."
"... Even when the film falls to pieces, McAvoy's bonkers brilliance will blow you away."
“ Even if the movie falls apart, McAvoy will blow you away with his brilliance. "
"Tapping into a rich literary-cinematic lineage that includes Bad Lieutenant and American Psycho, McAvoy portrays Robertson as both charismatic charmer and unreliable narrator, occasionally breaking the fourth wall to share a sick smile with the audience."
" James McAvoy draws on a rich literary and cinematic legacy that includes Bad Lieutenant and American Psycho, portraying Robertson as a charismatic charmer and unreliable narrator at the same time ... "
“This one starts at the level of lunacy and keeps on escalating. Next to Filth, "Trainspotting" looks as sedate as "The Polar Express."
“ This film starts at the insane level and doesn't stop escalating. Besides "Filth", "Trainspotting" is as calming as Der Polarexpress "
German-language reviews
“It seems almost endless to direct debutant Jon S. Baird, who also wrote the script, to string together the abuse of substances, bodies and emotions ... James McAvoy manages the change from intimidating to pathetic so convincingly that he does the initial Can compensate for discrepancies in his figure. When the irrepressible rage of destruction disappears from his bright blue eyes, one almost feels sorry for him. "
“The staging accelerates the surreal ambiguity of the original by constantly giving full throttle and letting the farce tip over into extreme drama, garnished with many horror scenarios and a crazy punchline, but without nuances to catch your breath. Thanks to the extraordinary actors around James McAvoy and Eddie Marsan, the tour de force keeps the balance between manic intoxication and total self-abandonment. "
“James McAvoy manages to arouse something like sympathy for the man through his stunning game. You'd have to hate him, but it is more of a pity that you feel for this lost soul, which is still capable of empathy in individual moments. Conclusion: A grotesque fairy tale, invented by the Scottish author Irvine Welch. James McAvoy is simply terrific in the role of the character pig! "
“... a fundamental challenge with this story - albeit a satire - is of course how to stage a main character without morality, sensitivity or heart in such a way that the audience does not treat him with sheer contempt or even indifference. The production with the cast of James McAvoy found the best remedy for this ... he also brilliantly avoids the danger of letting the overdrawn Bruce Robertson degenerate into a mere caricature. ... Failures, because they are artificial, on the other hand, the attempt to impose a humane or even good-natured side on Robertson through a few side threads of the story has the effect. You don't need any of that, because the inner turmoil and obvious self-exclusion with so much drugs and so much malice were completely sufficient to understand that the filth is also a poor pig. "
“James McAvoy acts like unleashed. Its caricature-like over-the-top game and the sometimes surreal images plunge the film into a feverish frenzy. This is furious at times, but also quite exhausting in the long run. Nevertheless, one cannot blame the director for a lack of consistency. When towards the end the inner tragedy of the character comes to the fore, it hardly arouses sympathy in the audience. "
German production
The German version was produced by TV + Synchron Berlin .
Web links
- Bastard in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Drecksau atrotten tomatoes(English)
- Official German website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for bastard . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2013 (PDF; test number: 140 451 V).
- ↑ Drecksau (I) (2013) - Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed September 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Review complete Empire online, (English)
- ↑ Review "Filth" , Rolling Stone online, (English)
- ↑ "Filth" film review , Hollywood Reporter , online, (English)
- ↑ Review "Filth" -Movie Time , online, (English)
- ↑ The movie Drecksau nach Irvine Welsh with James Mcavoy starts , Der Spiegel Online, accessed on September 16, 2014
- ^ Filmdienst , Filmdienst , accessed on September 15, 2014
- ↑ Cinema and DVD - Drecksau ( Memento from September 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Radio Bayern 3 , accessed on September 15, 2014
- ↑ Ein Macho im Elend , NZZ , accessed on September 13, 2014
- ↑ Film: Drecksau ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cinema , accessed September 15, 2014
