Derailed

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Movie
German title Derailed
Original title Derailed
Country of production USA , UK
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Mikael Håfström
script Stuart Beattie
production Lorenzo di Bonaventura
music Ed Shearmur
camera Peter Biziou
cut Peter Boyle
occupation

The US film adaptation of the psychological thriller ofthe same nameby James Siegel under the direction of Swedish director Mikael Håfström from 2005 has derailed .

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For the family man and advertising man Charles Schine, life is well-ordered. However, his daughter is seriously ill with diabetes mellitus and his relationship with his wife has cooled noticeably over the years.

One day he met the attractive bank employee Lucinda Harris on the train when she was helping him out with money for a ticket. She is also married and has a daughter. There are signs of an affair and they end up in a cheap hotel. But as the two are undressing, they are suddenly disturbed: the gangster Philippe LaRoche has broken into the room, takes the wallet, knocks Charles down and rapes Lucinda several times. When Charles tries to contact the police afterwards, Lucinda stops him.

LaRoche then extorted US $ 20,000 from Charles so that Charles' wife would not find out . He then visits Lucinda at her place of work in order to convince her again to call in the police. Lucinda refuses this again; Under no circumstances does she want her husband to find out about the affair and thus for her to lose her daughter. She even tells Charles that she had an abortion. Charles takes the amount from a company account and brings it in a bag to the meeting point, where he is shown to LaRoche by a helper.

A few months later, LaRoche's next demand comes: either Charles pays him $ 100,000 or he kills Lucinda. The family savings of this amount are, however, required for the treatment of the seriously ill daughter. Lacking his own experience in dealing with criminals, he turns to the previously convicted janitorial assistant Winston, who wants to intimidate LaRoche with an unloaded pistol. This fails, LaRoche shoots Winston and Charles is forced to hand over the family savings to him. For this he is ordered to Lucinda's city apartment, where Lucinda is in the power of LaRoche and his assistants. Again he brings the money in a briefcase.

He wants to visit Lucinda again at her place of work, but finds there that he was not dealing with the real Lucinda Harris. Jane, her real name, was only employed temporarily as a temporary worker. The apartment in which the money was handed over is currently being re-let. He learns that Jane and LaRoche lived in it together before. When he investigates more closely, Charles finds that it was all a nifty trap. Jane and LaRoche are partners and already have another victim on hand. Charles confesses everything to his wife.

As a result, Charles oversees Jane's activities and rents a room in said hotel. When Jane shows up with her new victim, he recognizes LaRoche's assistant in a hotel employee. He ambushes LaRoche and knocks him down from behind while breaking into the hotel room. In the room he explains the situation to the new victim. There is a shooting with two pistols because the assistant joins them, and apparently only Charles survives. He can escape unnoticed into the next room, where he is only heard as an ear witness. The police have the safe in the hotel lobby opened, which gives Charles his briefcase, which still contains his money, as he can identify himself as the owner with the help of the briefcase tag.

After discovering the misappropriation of the money in his company , Charles is sentenced only to community service as a teacher in a prison because of the immediate repayment. It is no coincidence that his choice of prison comes from the one in which the drawn but still living LaRoche is imprisoned. Charles kills him in the laundry with a knife he brought with him to prison and can represent the whole thing as self-defense . However, the investigating Detective Church is not convinced.

Further information

  • At a production cost of around $ 22 million, the film grossed $ 36 million in US theaters.
  • The film was shot in Chicago , which is where the story takes place. The prison recordings come from the Joliet Correctional Center in Joliet, which was closed in 2002 . Another location was London .

Reviews

  • The Hamburger Abendblatt saw an "exciting film" and compared the plot with the works of Alfred Hitchcock . Director Mikael Håfström has “a fine sense for the mechanisms of power and cruelty”.
  • The world praised Vincent Cassel in the role of the villain, but criticized the finale of the film and the postscript. The director would try to ingratiate himself with America.
  • film-dienst , 4/2006: “One-dimensionally developed thriller that hardly creates tension or produces surprises. He conjures up the moral fortress of the bourgeois nuclear family and combative virtues that lead to a reactionary vigilante mentality. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for derailed . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2006 (PDF; test number: 105 060 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for derailed . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ cf. Behrens, Volker: “Gradually getting off track”. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 23, 2006, No. 46/2006, p. 7.
  4. ↑ cf. Krekeler, Elmar; Hermann, Max: "Never miss a train". In: Die Welt , February 23, 2003, No. 46/2006, p. 29.
  5. ↑ Derailed. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used