Pathology - everyone has a secret

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Movie
German title Pathology - everyone has a secret
Original title Pathology
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Marc Schölermann
script Mark Neveldine ,
Brian Taylor
production Mark Neveldine
music Johannes Kobilke ,
Robb Williamson
camera Ekkehart Pollack
cut Todd E. Miller
occupation

Pathology - Everyone Has a Secret is an American thriller by Marc Schölermann from 2008.

action

Ted Gray, an up-and-coming doctor from a good family, comes to Philadelphia as an outstanding graduate from Harvard University , where he participates in a renowned pathology course from Dr. Quentin Morris attends. During the first autopsies , he impressed his colleagues with detailed analyzes of the cause of death.

But when his young colleague Jake Gallo introduces him to a secret group, Ted gradually realizes how cruel his colleagues are. After a nightly excursion to a seedy building, the man they met lies in the morgue the following day. Ted now learns that Jake's group is enjoying a macabre game. The young pathologists practice the perfect murder. If you want to win, you have to murder your victim in such a way that your colleagues cannot unravel the cause of death.

Ted gets deeper and deeper into a dark world of violence, drugs and sex. Soon he committed his first murder and gained recognition in the group. Then it is Juliette Bath's turn. She tells Ted that she was molested by her pedophile father as a child . Together they kill the supposed father by filling his lungs with liquid nitrogen . But a little later, Ted learns that the story was a lie. In reality, they are innocent victims.

After the Christmas break, Ted's fiancée Gwen Williamson comes to Philadelphia with him. She knows nothing about the murderous activities in the underground and is not supposed to find out about it. The situation becomes even more complicated for Ted because Jake does not want to let him out of the group and Juliette continues to prefer to satisfy her sexual needs with him rather than Jake. Jake falls into a blood frenzy and punishes this infidelity by choosing Juliette as the next murder victim. Ted stays away from the autopsy despite being told to do so, whereupon the others decide to dispose of him. However, he had previously opened a gas tap in the basement, and a meth pipe caused an explosion.

When Ted arrives at the scene of the accident the next morning, he realizes that Jake survived and is now targeting Gwen. When Ted arrives at his apartment, his fiancée is already dead. He persuades Dr. Morris to do the autopsy himself. He analyzes the murder, but writes an arrhythmia as a diagnosis in the report . After the investigation, Jake overwhelms him with the delusion that he has successfully deceived Ted and that he can now complete his revenge. But then he is by his colleague Ben from behind with ether anesthetized and Ted kills him just as Jake had previously murdered Gwen: with a concealed potassium chloride -Injection and slow-acting nitroglycerin .

background

So that the first trailer didn't seem too brutal, some corpses were presented without any visible organs and a sex scene was digitally edited. Some of the actors took part in real autopsies to prepare for their roles.

In the opening scene, the macabre pathologists re-enact a famous film scene with the corpses .

reception

The kino.de critic recommends the film "Friends of crime scene photos and fans of" House "who want to delve deeper into the human anatomy". Sascha Westphal from filmstarts.de sees the "cynical [n] thriller [..] a bitterly angry reckoning with all American doctor series" that breaks all taboos. “However, Schölermann soon loses sight of the story and characters.” The reviewer from cinema.de criticized this deficiency with the statement: “For him, the staging was more important than the question of why a staid elite student turns into an unscrupulous killer disgusting body worlds, garnished with wild sex. "Bernd Zywietz from cinefacts.de sees" the basic rules or at least standards of dramaturgy "as fulfilled; Overall, the film is a "bloodless, bloody [...] work" because of the poor representation of the protagonists.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Pathology - Everyone Has a Secret . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 693 K).
  2. ↑ IMDB Trivia
  3. ↑ IMDB Trivia
  4. ^ Pathology review. kino.de, accessed on April 28, 2012 .
  5. ^ Sascha Westphal: criticism of the FILMSTARTS.de editorial team. filmstarts.de, accessed on April 28, 2012 .
  6. ^ Pathology. cinema.de, accessed on April 28, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Bernd Zywietz: Pathology - film criticism. cinefacts.de, accessed on April 28, 2012 .