Nobody (film)

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Movie
German title Nobody
Original title Nobody
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Shawn Linden
script Shawn Linden
production Robin Linden ,
Shawn Linden,
Jamie Thompson
music James Roberston
cut Matthew Hannam
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Nobody is a Canadian fictional film by director Shawn Linden from 2007. The film can best be classified as a mystery thriller , but also contains horror and crime thriller elements. Due to the gloomy atmosphere and intricate narrative style, it is partly reminiscent of a film noir .

action

The action is reproduced in individual film snippets, which at first cannot be classified in terms of time. The first scene takes place in a cabin . The gang boss Rolo Toles is visited by a stranger with a black face and threatened with a gun. From the conversation we learn that Rolo recently hired an accomplice named Clarence to kill an unknown man. The black-faced man poses as the killer Clarence hired. He claims to have carried out the job and demands his wages, a tied package on Rolos' table. The latter, on the other hand, refuses to give it to him because the hit man did not bring him the man's head as requested. The stranger, who calls himself Nobody , takes the package from him anyway and disappears.

Several scenes follow that are not directly related to the first one. Nobody is stalked or shot by a stranger. He escapes and goes to an hourly hotel , where he is immediately recognized by the hotelier. However, the stranger cannot remember any previous visit. In his hotel room he operates the pistol bullet himself out.

The first scene in the ship's cabin is repeated again, this time from a different perspective. Then the plot changes back to the hotel room, where nobody tries unsuccessfully to contact Clarence. In the latter's house, he finally finds him decapitated and lying on the floor. Just then the phone rings. Nobody picks up the phone and recognizes Rolo Toles on the other side, who takes him for Clarence and blames him for the allegedly unsuccessful contract killing.

The stranger goes to a cemetery, where he is suddenly shot by his unknown persecutor, falls into an open grave and shortly after comes alive again. He then goes to Rolo Toles' boat, sneaks past the guards and pauses in front of Rolo's cabin. When he suddenly overhears a conversation between Rolo and himself (first scene), he realizes that he is trapped in a time loop and that the foreign pursuer is himself. From that point on, the roles of the two strangers, who are actually the same person, alternate. The hunted becomes the pursuer and vice versa.

The stranger now experiences all the situations he has already experienced again, but this time as a persecutor and observer of himself. He gradually realizes that he is just a figure in a superhuman game. In another conversation with the gang boss, part of the confused and opaque plot is cleared up: Rolo Toles, who is himself unknowingly caught in this loop, has put the hit man on the unknown nobody , of whose existence he himself was not convinced. Both the executing contract killer and the killing target are made up of the stranger who was, in a sense, charged with the murder of himself. Since Rolo Toles himself does not know exactly who he is after, one must assume that his fear and antipathy towards the stranger stem only from his two surprise visits. These encounters only came about through the murder assignment, so there is no actual beginning of the loop action.

At the end the two strangers meet (again). In the role of the assassin, nobody shoots his second self, who falls dead in the grave and disappears a few seconds later. The loop continues immediately when the killer is shot in the same way by another nobody .

Between the individual scenes, an old and blind beggar woman can be seen murmuring confused things and putting small bones together to form a picture. Once she was given a coin by no one. In the very last scene of the film, she turns to the viewer and shows him her treasure, which grows by a coin with each loop, whereby the coins symbolize the souls of the murdered nobody .

Narrative

At the beginning, Nobody is very reminiscent of films like Memento due to the non-linear plot . Individual scenes can be linked to one another and brought into a chronological sequence by means of small hints. It soon becomes clear, however, that the events are based on surreal laws and, unlike Memento, are not causal . The action has neither a beginning nor an end and thus forms a closed circle.

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