Havoc (film)

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Movie
German title Havoc
Original title Havoc
Country of production USA , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Barbara Kopple
script Stephen Gaghan
Jessica Kaplan
production Stewart Hall
John Morrissey
Jack F. Murphy
music Cliff Martinez
camera Kramer Morgenthau
cut Nancy Baker
occupation

Havoc , also known as Kick or KICK - We are totally f * cking bored , is an American - German drama from 2005 . Directed by Barbara Kopple , the screenplay was written by Stephen Gaghan .

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Allison Lang lived as a teenager in an upscale LA neighborhood and was a member of a hip-hop gang. The gang beats each other out of boredom and runs away when the police arrive. An acquaintance of Allison made a documentary about her and recorded the beatings and other scenes later. Since the leader of the gang Allison has a relationship with wants to experience more, they drive to the East Side of LA. This part of the city is a kind of slum, in which mostly non-whites live, prostitutes stand on the roadside and are dealt with drugs. The gang leader, Toby, buys drugs from one of the gangsters who appeals to them. Since he did not get enough grams, he goes after the dealer and confronts him. He then unpacks his cannon and holds it to his head. Toby pees his pants. The teenagers get away with a shock.

Allison meets with her friends regularly and is the bravest of them. She persuades them to go to the East Side to see the gangsters. After initial suspicion, the dealer, Hector, invites her to a party. Some time later, Allison and Hector happen to meet in a shop and she accompanies him to the East Side. There they are arrested by the police. A few days after they're free, Allison and her friend Emily visit Hector and his gang again. After drinking some alcohol, Allison tells Hector that they want to join the gang. He demands a test of courage in the form of sexual intercourse with him and his buddies. As they begin to undress, Allison becomes uncomfortable and breaks off. Emily seems to like it and she stays. When Emily is taken by two at the same time, she starts screaming. Allison then drives her home. Emily reports Hector to the police for rape. When he is arrested, his buddies plan to "silence" the two girls, but get lost. In the meantime, Emily's friends make their way armed to Hector's house, where they only find women who frighten them. Allison has now gone to Emily's home and tells her parents that they had volunteered to have sex, whereupon Emily half-heartedly tries to take her own life. When the gangsters and gang are on their way back, they meet at an intersection and a shot is fired. The film ends with a flashback in which Allison says that everything is meaningless and just "extremely boring" to them.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film is a " hip-hop-heavy youth drama that tells with quick cuts of disorientation and life weariness and indirectly poses the question of the responsibility of parents who are concerned with themselves ". He refers " to the present, but the gang and generation conflict depicted has preoccupied American cinema since the 1950s ".

Wally Hammond wrote in Time Out London on October 25, 2005 that the film was " strangely conventional " and that its brilliance illuminates the emptiness of the script. Anne Hathaway shows that, in the name of art, she is ready to bare her breasts; Bijou Phillips play more convincingly.

Awards

Anne Hathaway received the DVD Exclusive Award in 2006 . The film was nominated for the 2006 Cinema Audio Society Award for sound editing .

backgrounds

The film was shot in Los Angeles in Santa Monica and in Altadena ( California turned). Its production amounted to an estimated 9 million US dollars . The twice- Oscar- winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple made her feature film debut with Havoc .

The world premiere took place on June 26, 2005 at a festival in Munich . A screening at the Chicago International Film Festival followed on October 8, 2005 . While the film was released in theaters in some countries, such as Russia and Mexico , in many, such as the United States and Germany, it was released direct to DVD.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Havoc in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on November 28, 2007
  2. ^ Wally Hammond Film Review, accessed November 28, 2007
  3. ^ Filming locations for Havoc, accessed November 28, 2007
  4. ^ Box office / business for Havoc, accessed November 28, 2007
  5. ↑ Havoc premiere dates, accessed November 28, 2007