Harry Brown (film)

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Movie
German title Harry Brown
Original title Harry Brown
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Daniel Barber
script Gary Young
production Matthew Vaughn ,
Kris Thykier ,
Matthew Brown ,
Keith Bell
music Martin Phipps ,
Ruth Barrett ,
Pete Tong ,
Paul Rogers
camera Martin calm
cut Joe Walker
occupation

Harry Brown is director Daniel Barber's debut feature film from 2009 . The British Action - Crime - Drama with Michael Caine , Emily Mortimer , Jack O'Connell and Liam Cunningham in the lead roles is named after the main character Harry Brown (Caine).

In the story, Harry Brown, a widower and Northern Ireland veteran , gets caught in the orbit of youth and drug delinquency in a problem area in south London . After the violent death of his friend Leonard Attwell, the pensioner practices vigilante justice and persecutes his friend's murderers.

action

The film begins with a gang admission ritual in which a young man from a prefabricated housing estate in South London is incited to take drugs and use a weapon. Riding a motorcycle with an accomplice, he shoots a young mother and ultimately kills her. While on the run, he was hit by a truck and killed. The whole scene was filmed with a cell phone camera from the perpetrators' point of view.

Harry Brown, a former Royal Marines veteran and Northern Ireland veteran, tries to stay out of his violent neighborhood. He visits his wife, who is in a coma in the hospital, and spends the rest of his days in a pub playing chess with his best friend Leonard. The two friends watch Sid, the landlord, supplement his income with bribes from drug traffickers Kenny and Stretch.

In the middle of the night, Harry receives a phone call to inform him that his wife is dying. Instead of being able to take the shortest route to the hospital through an underpass, Harry has to take a detour because the underpass is occupied by teenage gang members. Harry arrives late to the hospital and only finds an empty bed instead of his wife.

After the funeral, Leonard confides to Harry that he is being bullied by teenagers and shows him an old bayonet that he carries with him to defend himself. Harry wants to bring his friend to his senses and take him to the police. He doesn't want to know anything about it, says that he has already been to the police and that they do not want to or cannot help him. Later that day, Leonard awoke to smoke from a fire in his apartment. Somebody had pushed something burning through his mail slot.

The next day Harry receives a visit from the police officers Frampton and Hicock, who inform him that Leonard was murdered that night. In the course of the investigation, members of a local gang, including their leader Noel Winters, are arrested. During interrogation, the suspects refuse to testify and are released again.

After Leonard's funeral, Harry gets drunk in Sid's pub and is mugged by a junkie from Noel's gang on his way home. When Harry sees the attacker's knife, he can fall back on his military training, so that he turns the knife of the attacker against him and kills him in the scuffle.

The policewoman Frampton visits Harry again the next morning. She informs him that the perpetrators are likely to receive less prosecution and only face charges of manslaughter in the course of self-defense, since Leonard was killed with his own bayonet.

At this point, Harry decides to take the law into his own hands. He follows drug dealer Kenny from Sid's Pub to a shabby factory floor to get a gun. Inside the dealers' hideout, Harry sees a cannabis plantation and an abused girl who is suffering from a drug overdose on the sofa, while a movie showing the girl's abuse by Stretch is playing in the background. Shocked, Harry asks Stretch to call an ambulance for the girl. Provoked, Stretch threatens Harry and shoots randomly across the room. Harry kills the two dealers before taking a bag of handguns and money and burning the hiding place down. Then he takes the girl to a hospital, where he leaves her with £ 1,000, but donates most of the money to a church.

While watching Noel's gang, Harry kills another drug dealer and kidnaps a member of the gang, Marky. He tortures Marky and takes a cell phone film from him about the murder of his friend Leonard. This proves the merciless murder of the gang members. Then Harry uses Marky as bait to get at Noel and the second main culprit of the murder. In a shootout, Marky and the second main culprit are shot, while Noel manages to escape. In pursuit of the fugitive, Harry collapses with emphysema and is taken to a hospital.

Convinced that the latest murders are part of a gang war, Police Director Childs orders a major raid, ignoring Detective Frampton, who believes Harry Brown is the prime suspect in the previous murders. The arrival of the police in the problem areas led to a massive backlash from local residents, which culminated in a riot.

Harry escapes from the hospital and searches for Noel in the chaos of the riot. When Frampton and Hicock hear of Harry's disappearance from the hospital, they make their way to the trouble center to stop Harry. There is a car accident in which the officers are injured. Harry helps them retire to Sid's pub and learns from Frampton that Sid is Noel's uncle. When Harry tries to confront Sid, he discovers Noel, but because of his emphysema, Harry is no longer able to confront his friend's killer. Sid disarms him and beats him up.

Detective Frampton is calling for reinforcements when Noel and his uncle Sid reappear in the taproom with Harry. Sid suffocates Detective Hicock, and Noel begins strangling Detective Frampton when Harry mobilizes his remaining strength and shoots Noel. When Sid threatens to shoot Harry, he is gunned down by the police reinforcements requested.

After the uprising was put down, Police Director Childs honored the police officers Frampton and the late Hicock for their work. When asked by the press, he denies any involvement or presence of vigilante or vigilante justice in the entire investigation. The last scene shows Harry deliberately taking the shortcut through the empty pedestrian underpass.

background

Harry Brown premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival .

The film was mainly filmed in Heygate Estate, a former prefabricated housing estate in the London borough of Walworth , which was demolished between 2011 and 2014.

reception

Reviews

“As a provocative big city western in the midst of urban dreariness, Daniel Barber's feature film debut (supplemented by interviews) takes a sobering snapshot of the prevailing social conditions on the island - relentlessly and without black and white painting. Conclusion: shocking study of violence and counter-violence. "

“Feature film debutant Daniel Barber staged his hard mix of vigilante thriller and drama in the tradition of works like Ein Mann sucht rot or Gran Torino . Located in a socially problematic district where the population has to suffer from the harassment and violence of criminal youth gangs, Barber found in Michael Caine the ideal cast for the role of the old naval fighter who no longer wants to come to terms with the conditions in his neighborhood . How Caine transforms from a shaky chess lover to a merciless lone fighter is a bit far-fetched, but once again the character actor knows how to convince. It doesn't really matter if the final is a bit improbable. "

"The story, written for the outstanding main actor, tells a common avenger story, but uses the genre to reflect the collapse of London's social structures, the decay of neighborhoods, increasing street violence and loneliness in old age."

Awards

Michael Caine was nominated for the 2010 Empire Award for Best Actor; it won Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release to Harry Brown . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 408 V).
  2. ^ Trivia of the Internet Movie Database , accessed October 8, 2010.
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