Killer Joe (film)

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Movie
German title Killer joe
Original title Killer joe
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK unchecked
SPIO / JK : no serious danger to young people
Rod
Director William Friedkin
script Tracy Letts
production Nicolas Chartier
Scott binders
music Tyler Bates
camera Caleb Deschanel
cut Darrin Navarro
occupation

Killer Joe is an American drama movie from 2011 . The film, directed by William Friedkin , is based on the play of the same name by Tracy Letts , who also wrote the script for the film adaptation.

action

Chris is heavily indebted to a drug lord after his mother used the drugs hidden in her house to work on her car. He decides she has to die so he can get her life insurance. To the best of his knowledge, this is issued to his sister Dottie, who is mentally retarded because of the abuse by her mother and therefore lives with his father Ansel and his wife Sharla. Together with Ansel, he hires Killer Joe, a police officer who has a second leg as a contract killer . However, they can't afford the upfront fee, whereupon Killer Joe demands the virgin Dottie as an advance payment, at least until he's received his fee.

Joe kills Chris and Dottie's mother, making it look like a drunk accident. However, when Ansel and Sharla want to cash in the life insurance after the funeral, they discover that the beneficiary is not Dottie, but Rex, the mother's partner. It was he who gave Chris the wrong information, probably in the hope that he would get rid of the mother. Chris, who has meanwhile been badly damaged by the drug lord, panics because he can now neither pay him nor Joe. He therefore plans to flee to South America with Dottie.

Joe visits Sharla and Ansel. He brutally forces Sharla to admit that she was having an affair with Rex and that she was behind the plan with the life insurance. Dottie, who refused to go with Chris without speaking to Joe one last time, and Chris join them. Joe wants to take Dottie with him, whereupon a fight breaks out between Chris and Joe over a gun. Dottie can usurp them, shooting Chris and fatally injuring Ansel. Then she points the gun at Joe and confesses that he is pregnant. Joe looks enthusiastic and happy about this news and approaches Dottie minimally. Dottie puts her finger on the trigger. The movie ends.

background

The film premiered at the 2011 Venice International Film Festival . He made his North American debut at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival .

In the United States, Killer Joe was rated NC-17 . An appeal was unsuccessful and Friedkin refused to cut the criticized scenes. The film was then released on July 27, 2012 for audiences 17 and over. In the United Kingdom , the film is only available from 18. In Germany, as in the USA, there were problems with the age rating. With the SPIO / JK release, the film was therefore not seriously endangering young people . Killer Joe was indexed on April 30, 2013.

criticism

In the New York Times , Manohla Dargis wrote that director Friedkin, despite his proven talent for moving images of violence, does not find his rhythm here, with which the film shifts from realism to surrealistic exploitation and creates the feeling that what is happening on the screen has the upper hand retained over the direction instead of the other way around. On the occasion of a performance at the Berlin Fantasy Filmfest it was said that Friedkin "torments them (= the actors) to a crude juxtaposition of overacting and provinciality, dares a show with rape scenes and humiliation practices, throws the audience into a delirious frenzy"

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The William Friedkin Interview: Part 1 - Good vs. Evil, 'Killer Joe' and the MPAA
  2. ↑ Killer Joe on the British Board of Film Classification
  3. ^ Review in the NY Times
  4. ↑ criticism from Joris J .