A weird bird
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A weird bird |
| Original title | Frauds |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stephan Elliott |
| script | Stephan Elliott |
| production |
Andrena Finlay Stuart Quin |
| music | Guy Gross |
| camera | Geoff Burton |
| cut |
Brian Kavanagh Jill Savitt Frans Vandenburg |
| occupation | |
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A weird bird (alternative title: Frauds - A murderous impostor , original title: Frauds ) is an Australian black comedy from 1993. It is one of two films in which the musician Phil Collins plays the leading role.
action
At the end of a visit to his friend Jonathan and his wife Beth, Michael states that he cannot use two opera tickets. This has been agreed between him and Jonathan; During the opera visit, Michael is supposed to pretend a break-in for the two of them so that Jonathan can report damage to the insurance company and get money. But Beth forgets the appointment, comes home and meets the masked Michael, whom she shoots with a crossbow. Beth is acquitted in court.
The insurance agent Roland Copping visits the couple. In addition to property damage, a valuable silver cutlery box was allegedly stolen, which the accomplice who was heard driving away from the neighbor (it was Jonathan) is said to have taken away. After Copping hands over a silver fork, he watches as Jonathan later checks the presence of the cutlery in his shed and knows that the break-in was bogus. Copping has his silence about the insurance fraud paid for with a lot of money, the cutlery box and a car of the two. With two choices, he generally lets one die decide what he is doing and plays tricks on passers-by in front of his house. Its interior consists of a huge, children's room-like facility with numerous game mechanical effects. Jonathan visits the house in Copping's absence, pursues him and finds out that he has a paralyzed brother in a nursing home.
A little later there is a showdown between Jonathan and Copping in the house. Both threaten each other with murders of their relatives. Beth is tied to a chair at the beginning of a slide. A circular saw blade is turning in an opening in the slide. Jonathan fastened the wheelchair with Coppings brother over the swimming pool. The death machines are triggered, but both of them were bluffing . The circular saw sinks before Beth slides over it and there is a doll in the wheelchair. The film ends with Coppings laughing out loud.
criticism
The lexicon of the international film judges: "Staging remarkable, stylistically but too indecisive mixture of black comedy and exciting thriller, which feeds mainly on the excellent leading actor".
Web links
- An oblique bird in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ A strange bird. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 5, 2017 .