Powder (film)

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Movie
German title Powder
Original title Powder
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1995
length 111 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Victor Salva
script Victor Salva
production Roger Birnbaum ,
Daniel Grodnik
music Jerry Goldsmith
camera Jerzy Zieliński
cut Dennis M. Hill
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Powder is a 1995 American film starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Mary Steenburgen and Jeff Goldblum. The film is about the limits of human ability and the hope that one day humanity will catch up with technology again. The film opened in German cinemas on June 6, 1996.

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Powder was born with albinism after his mother was struck by lightning while pregnant . It lacks the color pigments in the skin and sometimes the hair. The mother did not survive this birth. The father does not recognize him as his son, and so Powder grows up with his grandparents. He never leaves their house, however. Yet he reads a great many books, all of which he knows by heart. When the grandparents died, Powder was discovered by the police. The local school principal (played by Mary Steenburgen ) takes powder into her high school. It is soon discovered that he is gifted. However, due to his appearance and shy behavior, his classmates do not accept him, but rather disregard him. Powder also emits an energy that either switches off electrical devices such as televisions and radios or makes them go crazy. He also has other special skills. He can resuscitate a person with cardiac arrest with a kind of electric shock , he can also convey feelings of animals to people and read their thoughts. He also has telepathic skills.

Powder observes the deputy, who neither accepts nor understands him, when he kills a deer on a hunt during the closed season . Powder touches the dying animal on its wound and with the other hand touches the hunter to let him feel the death throes of the deer. He is so shaken by this painful experience that he vows never to take up arms again.

Powder does not feel comfortable in his new surroundings and decides to return to his grandparents' house. When the sheriff finds him there and wants to take him away, he runs into a gathering thunderstorm. He is struck by lightning, his body lights up like a lamp and disappears in the distance.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on movie-reviews.colossus.net that the film offers too many "easy answers" and manipulates viewers. He praised the portrayal of Sean Patrick Flanery, who plays a character with whom you can "sympathize" and "identify".

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on October 27, 1995 that powder was a film in which interesting ideas were not sufficiently realized.

Dustin Van Hoeven from De Telegraaf wrote: “A film about a person who is undoubtedly supposed to be brilliant, but still damages his surroundings, and that with lightning and telepathy? Who in the film is actually the bad guy? "

Ken Hanke of MOUNTAIN XPRESS wrote that the film was nothing more than a lousy copy of an episode of the X-Files .

Don West of L'Express wrote: “Powder is one of the worst mystery films I've ever seen. Surely a disturbed sect had a hand in it. "

Martin John of Metallic Magazine wrote: "The film has good sides, but as a movie it is undoubtedly too confusing, a pure psycho-drama ..."

Awards

Sean Patrick Flanery was nominated for the MTV Movie Award in 1996. Victor Salva won a prize at the French Festival de Gérardmer - Fantastic'Arts in 1996 .

Remarks

The film grossed approximately $ 31 million worldwide .

American audiences responded with protests and boycotts when it became known that Powder's screenwriter and director Victor Salva had been in jail for molesting a child.

2006 is a Bollywood remake of Powder called ALAG - He's Different ... He came out alone .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Berardinelli: [preview.reelviews.net/movies/p/powder.html Powder A Film Review by James Berardinelli] ( English ) http: //preview.reelviews.net.+ Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  2. ↑ Roger Ebert: Review Powder ( English ) rogerebert.com. October 27, 1995. Retrieved September 22, 2019.