LenaLove
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| Original title | LenaLove |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian Gaag |
| script | Florian Gaag |
| music | Richard Ruzicka |
| camera | Christian Rein |
| cut | Kai Schröter |
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LenaLove is a German thriller that was produced by ZDF as part of the series Das kleine Fernsehspiel . The main theme of the film is cyberbullying among young people and its effects.
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The 16-year-old Lena lives with her single mother Pia in an urban suburb, her former best friend Nicole lives with her parents Judith, an author of guidebooks for couples, and Axel, a dance trainer, directly opposite. Pia and Axel have an affair that Lena knows about. The new role of Nicole's best friend is now Stella, the two of them openly show this on the social network. Stella often gossips about Lena, who is increasingly withdrawing and immersing herself in social networks. Here she receives comfort and encouragement from a certain Noah. Meanwhile, Lena befriends classmate Tim, an artistically gifted but petty criminal, at school. When a romance begins between the two of them, Lena catches Tim kissing Nicole at a party initiated by Stella. Lena is pissed off and feels exploited. In her anger, she burns a term paper she wrote for Nicole to improve her school performance. She also deletes Nicole from her friends list. When the police checked Tim for drug possession the next day at school and arrested him, Stella and Nicole seem to realize that Lena had previously reported him to the school principal. Lena dares to confide in Noah again, tells him that Nicole is left and that her father is sleeping with her mother.
Judith stares at her cell phone in horror. She is Noah and through the chat with Lena learns that she is being cheated on. This has further effects, so she advises a friend Judith to separate from her husband Bernd, which in turn endangers the important dance competition of Axel's Dream Team, as both should dance here. Lena changes her account name to LenaLove and decorates it with a seductively provocative photo. Noah gets in touch with her again. But this time it is not Judith who is behind it, but her daughter Nicole and Stella, who have found the access data. You are now playing a bad game with Lena, persuading Tim to take part and pretending to be Noah. But Tim is not enthusiastic about the two girls' games and leaves the house. At school he asks her to delete Noah's profile, but Stella has it in her hand because she has video footage of Tim selling drugs at the party. Lena tries to come to terms with Nicole to some extent. But when Nicole learns that Lena will step in for Judith at the dance competition and dance with Bernd, she feels offended.
The dance competition is coming up, everyone is tense. In the locker room, Nicole can put pieces of sugar in Lena's thermos without being noticed, which Stella has previously drizzled with a substance. While dancing, Lena suddenly has terrifying hallucinations and collapses, Stella films everything and immediately puts it online. Due to the missed final, Axel says that he no longer plans with Bernd for the next season. Lena later, still plagued by hallucinations, receives a link from Noah to the dance video on a page entitled World of Shame. There are hateful comments there, Lena is on the verge of collapse. But Stella wants to go further. They make it look as if Tim wants to meet Lena, using a fake account of Lena to arrange a meeting with a man on a dating portal in order to film this again. Lena is harassed by this man, but can pull herself away and runs away through the night. Because of her hallucination, she falls into the water at a weir. Her cell phone is found, Lena has disappeared.
When the affected families find out about this, Nicole reveals herself to her parents and tells them about the continued use of the Noah account and their actions. Axel would like to go to the police, Judith, however, sees her career as an author at risk if this gets to the media. The word Noah was smeared on both Nicole and Stella's parents' house. Tim goes to Stella and pretends to have deleted everything. He steals her cell phone and takes it with him to the caravan in which he lives. Now the viewer learns that Tim pulled the delusional Lena out of the water and took care of her here. You want to go to Lena's mother later. Meanwhile, Axel and Nicole have gone to the police anyway, and in the evening the family sits at the table in a forgiving way. Through the panorama window you can see the headlights of a van that crashes into the house a moment later. A fire is lit. Lena and Tim hear this and are able to save the family from the house, the driver of the van was Bernd. When the police arrive, who are still looking for Tim about Lena's disappearance, the two of them flee.
Stella is walking across the school yard when she sees an oversized wall graffiti on one of the buildings. On this she can be seen as she is in the clutches of creatures. All the other students have just received videos on their cell phones that expose the atrocities of her. Tim must have pulled it from Stella's cell phone and sent it. The last scene shows Lena and Tim, hugging and enjoying the view over the rooftops of the city.
background
The film celebrated its cinema premiere on September 22, 2016.
reception
The lexicon of international films judges: “The visually and acoustically pimped-up youth film negotiates the topics of cyber-bullying and abuse of social networks with its overloaded character constellation, changing from a mystery to a psychological thriller and the protagonist's horror trip with the subplot of a popular bestseller author. "
Harald Mühlbeyer thinks the film is incredibly overloaded and the story is confused. "Unfortunately, LenaLove is not much deeper than an overly long soap episode."
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) , on the other hand, gave the film the rating of “extremely valuable” and sees LenaLove as “an extremely powerful film that deals with topics relevant to the target group and points out dangers without raising a forefinger. Exciting, challenging and highly relevant. "
Web links
- Lena Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for LenaLove . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2015 (PDF; test number: 156 041 K).
- ↑ LenaLove. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Harald Mühlbeyer: LenaLove (2016): Teenage Wasteland. Cinema time, accessed August 13, 2020.
- ↑ German Film and Media Assessment (FBW): LenaLove FBW, accessed on August 13, 2020.