Human Nature - The Crown of Creation
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Human Nature - The Crown of Creation |
| Original title | Human Nature |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michel Gondry |
| script | Charlie Kaufman |
| production |
Anthony Bregman , Ted Hope , Spike Jonze , Charlie Kaufman |
| music | Graeme Revell |
| camera | Tim Maurice-Jones |
| cut | Russell Icke |
| occupation | |
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Human Nature - The Crown of Creation (original title: Human Nature ) is the first full-length feature film by director Michel Gondry , who was previously known primarily for his music videos . The comedy , released in 2001, is the second film adaptation of a screenplay by Charlie Kaufman after Being John Malkovich , but could not build on its success.
action
The story is told by the three main characters Lila, Nathan and Puff. Lila is on a police interrogation, Puff is at a public hearing in Congress, and Nathan is in the afterlife.
Lila has suffered from exceptionally thick body hair since puberty and decides to live in the great outdoors, where she will not be judged by her appearance. At the age of 30, she returns to civilization out of longing for a man and wants to have the hair removed. However, until the lengthy treatment is completed, she has to shave daily. She meets the lonely psychologist Dr. Nathan Bronfman, but doesn't tell him their secret. The two fall in love and move in together.
Because of his strict upbringing, Nathan is so convinced of the importance of table manners that he tries to teach mice them in his laboratory. On a hike, he and Lila meet a feral person. Since he has never had contact with people in his life, except with his father, who thought he was a monkey, he cannot speak and behaves like a wild animal. Nathan sees him as the perfect test object for his experiments and takes him to his laboratory, where he is given the name Puff by Nathan's assistant, Gabrielle. Lila doesn't think it's right to civilize the man against his will, but can't convince Nathan of the opposite.
Nathan learns about Lila's body hair and starts an affair with Gabrielle in shock. Puff observes their act of love from his Plexiglas cell and from now on decides to cooperate in order to get a chance to live out his sexuality. He quickly learns to speak and to behave appropriately in all situations.
Since Nathan cannot choose between the two women, Gabrielle leaves the project. To win back Nathan's love, Lila decides to help him with his experiment. Puff is now allowed to leave the laboratory, but he has to wear a collar that Nathan uses to shock him with electric batons if he behaves incorrectly. Nathan finally leaves Lila and reunites with Gabrielle. They introduce Puff to science, who reacts enthusiastically, and Gabrielle begins to be drawn to Puff.
Lila completes her body depilation, gains new self-confidence and then kidnaps Puff. With the help of the collar, she trains him to behave naturally again. The two live together in the great outdoors. Nathan tracks them down and confesses his love to Lila again, whereupon Puff shoots him. Lila decides to take on the murder if Puff tells his story in front of Congress. Puff agrees. Lila goes to jail. After his speech, Puff, accompanied by the media, makes his way back into the forest. When the reporters disappear, Gabrielle picks him up in her car and they drive away.
reception
The film reached around 146,000 moviegoers in France and grossed $ 700,000 in the United States , which is just over 100,000. The film reached 42,000 visitors in Switzerland and around 5,000 in Germany. Apparently the film did not come into cinemas in Austria.
Reviews
The reviews of Human Nature are rather mixed. Silvia Hallensleben from Tagesspiegel wrote that Human Nature has “ many wonderful twists in store to surprise and delight mainstream bored moviegoers .” The film is “ cinema with stubbornness between Clockwork Orange and Bambi ”. However, Andreas Busche notes in an issue of the taz that the film only plays through " the closest possibilities of this very promising basic idea ". Even Daniel Kothenschulte by the Frankfurter Rundschau described the film as " the weakest of the Kaufman-films ". Human Nature is a “ somewhat hard-working and witty report to a (film) academy . "
Awards
In 2002, the production team received the High Hopes Award at the Munich Film Festival . The National Board of Review gave Charlie Kaufman the NBR Award for Best Screenplay that same year. He received this for the three films Human Nature, Adaptation - The Orchid Thief and Confessions - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which were released relatively soon .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lumiere - database of film attendance figures in Europe (page accessed on May 20, 2008)
- ↑ Box Office Mojo (accessed May 20, 2008)
- ↑ Filmförderungsanstalt - film hit list 2004
- ↑ Internet Movie Database: Human Nature - Premiere Dates (accessed May 20, 2008)
- ↑ Silvia Hallensleben: "I'm in the forest", Tagesspiegel from June 10, 2004. [1] (Accessed November 26, 2014)
- ↑ Andreas Busche: "Let me be your chimpanzee", daily newspaper from June 10, 2004 [2] (accessed on April 16, 2008)
- ↑ quoted from - ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , updated May 3, 2005, accessed April 16, 2008
