Mall: Wrong Time, Wrong Place
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Mall: Wrong Time, Wrong Place Running with the Wolves |
| Original title | Mall |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joe Hahn |
| script |
Sam Bisbee , Vincent D'Onofrio , Joe Vinciguerra |
| production | Vincent D'Onofrio, Joe Hahn, Sam Maydew |
| music |
Alec Puro , Chester Bennington , Dave Farrell , Joe Hahn, Mike Shinoda |
| camera | Richard Henkels |
| cut | Igor Kovalik |
| occupation | |
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Mall: Wrong Time, Wrong Place ( Mall , German DVD title also Running with the Wolves ) is an American drama from 2014 . The film is based on the novel of the same name by Eric Bogosian , who did not write the script. The director is disc jockey Joe Hahn , who works for the rock band Linkin Park and who has also directed most of the band's video clips. Mall is his first full-length feature film. He produced it together with Joe Vinciguerra and his friend Vincent D'Onofrio , who also starred in the film. 'Mall' is about a rampage in a shopping mall through which several unconnected people come into contact with each other.
action
The drug addict Malcolm (nickname: Mal) shoots his mother, sets her poor trailer on fire and drives to the shopping center (English: Mall) that gives the film its name.
In the parking lot of this mall, a student, Jeff, is basking on a small patch of lawn and is ordered by the police to leave the lawn. Jeff then goes to the mall with Adelle, whom he worships, and describes the following four main characters in the film: Donna, a bored housewife, Barry, a boutique owner, Michael, a security guard, and Danny, a married businessman who worked in the Film is only called a "pervert". In addition, the novel Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse plays a role in Jeff's worldview as a counter-model to these people. Jeff and Adelle now meet with two other students, Shel and Beckett, the latter offering Jeff Ecstasy .
In the next scene, Danny is arrested by the security staff because he had watched Donna in a locker room and was therefore considered a voyeur. Shel and Beckett set out to watch this arrest.
Mal has now shown up at the mall and broken into Barry, his former employer. He shoots him with his submachine gun for dismissing him for embezzlement. He also shoots some police officers, escapes outside and shoots the police officers who arrested Danny. Danny remains handcuffed in the police car. Panic breaks out in the mall and everyone rushes out screaming. The only one who follows Mal is Michael, who hurts Mal too.
Around the same time, Jeff Adelle confesses his love, but Adelle replies that he is a bore. Now the ecstasy pill is also working for Jeff, he feels like a werewolf and walks through the corridors of the shopping center, unimpressed by the panic around him. While Adelle approaches the defenseless Danny in the police car in order to humiliate him and rape him straight away, Shel and Beckett walk through the meanwhile empty shopping center and smash countless windows.
Jeff arrives at a bar outside the mall and meets Donna, the bored and sex-hungry housewife. After a failed seduction of another man, she turns to Jeff and goes with him to a motel, where they sleep together. Then Jeff wants to read her some of the Steppenwolf novel, but she goes home and Jeff returns to the mall. On the way he meets Mal who tells him to shoot him, but he doesn't. He walks on and sees the semi-unconscious Danny in the car who has been tormented by Adelle, frees him and finally drives him home.
background
Mall was shot in Eagle Rock , an eastern part of Los Angeles . The recordings in the mall lasted 18 days.
Joe Hahn first came into contact with the script, which had already been written, before reading the novel by Bogosian. He sees the main difference between the two texts in the importance of the main character Jeff, who relates the various characters in the script.
James Frecheville was originally intended for the role of Jeff, but he seemed too old to the director for the role, and Frecheville himself campaigned for the role of Mal.
Intentions
When asked what the movie 'Mall was aiming at, the director replied:
“It's about 5 people who connect through Jeff. From his perspective. They are all pathetic people. Jeff learns from their experiences. They are all brought together by a crystal meth addict. "
In another interview, John Hahn emphasizes the emptiness of these people who visit the mall.
“[It's] about seeing people for who they are, and especially the emptiness they feel, because that's what causes everything that exists in their lives. On the one hand, I like this aspect, but I also want to know how these people connect. How this emptiness leads to behavior, and how this behavior influences other people. "
criticism
The reviews are mostly negative, with the lack of drawing of the characters in the foreground, as well as the lack of clarity about the intentions of the film.
“Mall wants to tell an exciting story, but fails because sometimes useless characters come together, the dialogues are poor and the story branches are hardly meaningfully completed. So the film is sometimes exciting, but on the other hand it just babbles along. After all, the musical director and Linkin Park DJ Joe Hahn provides the work with a satisfactory background. "
“The basic idea of Mall is not new, but it is not bad either - but the implementation is only of limited use. Such a film lives from its characters and their comprehensibility. However, the film does not manage to tailor a background story for its characters that consists of more than two sentences and goes beyond stereotypical clichés. "
“Linkin Park DJ Joe Hahn's debut on neglected teenagers and frustrated adults has a certain pull. Ultimately, however, the story and the characters remain paper-thin. "
“The biggest problem with Hahn's film is that it is incredibly difficult to judge whether the film glorifies or condemns the violence done to innocent people. [...] As it may now be: Mall is an angry statement to consumerist America without offering a solution. "
In contrast to these superficial reviews, Mark Hughes tries an interpretation that aims more at the mental states of the main character Jeff and understands the film as a psychological event in his imagination:
“You can think of Mall as a low-budget thriller about people fleeing a rampage and then you might be satisfied. But it's more profitable when you include the deeper layers of the story and the many references to B-movie theaters and old-school psychedelic theater. "
Web links
- Mall: Wrong Time, Wrong Place at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certification of release for mall: Wrong Time, Wrong Place . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2014 (PDF; test number: 145 443 V).
- ↑ Interview: Linkin Park's Joe Hahn On His Directorial Debut Film, 'Mall' . Retrieved January 11, 2019.
- ↑ a b c Interview Alina Nguyen with Joe Hahn . Retrieved January 11, 2019.
- ↑ https://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/interview-linkin-parks-joe-hahn-on-his-directorial-debut-film-mall
- ↑ https://outnow.ch/Movies/2014/Mall/Review/
- ↑ http://sofahelden.com/index/artikel/Mall-Wrong-Time-Wrong-Place/6731
- ↑ https://www.cinema.de/film/mall-wrong-time-wrong-place,6257818.html
- ↑ http://www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/mall/
- ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2014/10/26/review-mall-combines-grindhouse-horror-with-mindbending-psychological-twists/#71c8889a783a