Gerry (film)
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| Original title | Gerry |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Gus Van Sant |
| script | Gus Van Sant, Casey Affleck , Matt Damon |
| production | Dany Wolf |
| music | Arvo Pärt |
| camera | Harris Savides |
| cut | Gus Van Sant, Casey Affleck, Matt Damon |
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Gerry is an American experimental film of director Gus Van Sant from the year of 2002.
action
The film begins with a car ride: two boys, both named Gerry, drive into an unspecified semi - arid desert landscape, park their car and go to see “that thing” at the end of the wilderness trail. At the beginning of their hike, the two other hikers notice. After some walking, talking and an improvised race, the two agree about their mutual disinterest in the further hike and decide to turn around again, but go back another way. In doing so, they get lost and are henceforth completely left to their own devices without water , food or a map .
The more the two try to work together to orientate themselves and to follow their steps, the more the two get on at the same time, increasingly irritable. As you walk through the desert for several days, the landscape becomes more and more arid. Finally, on the last day of their hike, mostly in silence, the two of them break down while running in a Death Valley- like landscape due to exhaustion and dehydration . The weaker of the two (Affleck) gives himself up to his fate with the last words: "I say goodbye" and asks the other, with fleeting movements, to redeem him. Whereupon the other finally strangles him in an ambiguous scene . He then lays himself down to die , but instead wakes up an indefinite time later with engine noises in his ear . On the horizon drive cars on a street over. He survives by hitchhiking with a family.
background
The film was shot in a semi-improvised style with a small crew in Argentina , Death Valley and the Utah Salt Flats and is dedicated to the memory of the American writer Ken Kesey .
The average length of the total of only about one hundred takes in the film is about seventy seconds. The film played at production costs of an estimated 3.5 million US dollars a about 236,000 US dollars in the cinemas of the United States.
The film is based on a true story. In July 1999, Raffi Kodikian and David Coughlin went on a cross-country hike and got lost on a day hike in Rattlesnake Canyon, part of Carlsbad Caverns National Park . Kodikian killed Coughlin after days without food and water. Although he claimed to have killed his friend out of grace, he was convicted of second-degree murder (equivalent to manslaughter in a less serious case under German criminal law). He spent 16 months in prison.
The film is a joint effort by the director Van Sant and the two actors Affleck and Damon, who contributed to the script and editing.
In an interview, Van Sant is skeptical about the idea that the two Gerrys should be seen as one person.
The German synchronization was created in Berlin . In the film, Casey Affleck is voiced by Fabian Harloff , and Matt Damon by Jan-David Rönfeldt .
criticism
“What they initially classify as a late adolescent adventure and begin with campfire romance and stories of suspense develops into an existential drama in which people talk about God and the world, being lost and being. A radical departure from the structures of narrative cinema, which - also visually - shows the nothingness of humans in the face of the dangerous beauty of nature and represents the supposedly saving retreat to the intellect as a dead end. The bulky film is reminiscent of Beckett's waiting for Godot in its absurd plot and structure . "
Awards
Gus Van Sant won the Toronto International Film Festival's Visions Award in 2002 . Van Sant as director and Harris Savides for cinematography were nominated for the Independent Spirit Award in 2003 . Savides won the New York Film Critics Circle Award in 2003 .
Web links
- Gerry in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Gerry atrotten tomatoes(English)
- Gerry atMetacritic(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/books/two-went-out-one-came-back.html
- ↑ Interview with Gus Van Sant (English) in Slant Magazine, 2003
- ↑ Gerry. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Gerry. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 26, 2017 .