Push (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Push |
| Country of production | United States , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul McGuigan |
| script | David Bourla |
| production |
Bruce Davey William Vince Glenn Williamson |
| music | Neil Davidge |
| camera | Peter Sova |
| cut | Nicolas Trembasiewicz |
| occupation | |
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Push is a 2009 science fiction thriller directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Chris Evans , Dakota Fanning and Camilla Belle . The film is about a group of people who are endowed with supernatural powers and are hunted by the government in order to militarily exploit their superpowers.
action
As once the National Socialists , the governments of the world are trying to turn people with special talents into soldiers.
These talents include the following skills:
- Seers can see the future. Even so, this future can change.
- Movers move things with the help of telekinesis . You can protect yourself and others with a pressure shield.
- Pushers can instill memories and feelings in others to do whatever they want.
- Hemophiliacs emit high-frequency acoustic vibrations that can destroy blood vessels and other people's sense of balance.
- Snoopers can tell where people are when they smell or touch things that the people they are looking for have previously owned.
- Converters can make things look different for a short period of time, but they only create illusions.
- Erasers can permanently erase a person's memory or certain memories.
- Shadows are able to hide people from snoopers.
- Healers can heal severe injuries in others and restore damaged cells. However, you can give them back their pain later.
The American organization that tries to strengthen its military through experiments with people of exceptional skills is the so-called division. She once killed the father of the mover Nick. Since then, Nick has found his way through illegal gambling and hides in Hong Kong . There he is finally found by 13-year-old Cassie Holmes, a seer who can paint the future. She makes Nick look for a woman and suitcase who, according to her visions, can change the future of the gifted.
When they find the woman, she turns out to be Nick's ex-girlfriend, Kira, who is a pusher. She is the first to survive an injection of a strength-enhancing agent, a Division experiment. After this injection, she managed to escape from the division. That's why the division is determined to find them and has snoopers and seers looking for them everywhere. She is also looking for the triad with the help of a seer and two hemophiliacs.
Nick manages to escape with Kira and Cassie, but the Division and Triad stay on their heels. He turns to his old friend "Hook", a converter, and the shade Pinky Stein. Because Pop Girl, the seer of the triad, is always on their heels, Nick has an idea. He writes letters to all of his friends in which he assigns them certain tasks, and then finally a final letter to himself. He then has a eraser erase his memory. From now on, the seer is no longer able to anticipate her steps.
Kira, who needs a vital drug from the division, is now surrendering it. Agent Carver - also a pusher - convinces her that she has voluntarily submitted to the procedure and that she is also an agent of the division. Meanwhile, the others find the suitcase that contains the tonic. With the help of the letters and Hook's special powers, they confuse the triad and the division.
In the final battle, the triad and most of the division agents are killed. Nick tries to convince Kira that she knows and loves him. She doesn't believe him, which is why he injects himself. The division believes he is dead and the drug lost, but Cassie swapped the drug for soy sauce , so Nick survived the injection. They consider using the agent as a medium of exchange to force Cassie's mother out of the division's hands.
In the end, Kira finds one of Nick's envelopes in her purse. It contains a photo that proves that she once loved him. It also says "kill him". Kira pushes Carver with orders to kill himself.
synchronization
| actor | speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| Scott Michael Campbell | Rainer Fritzsche | Agent Holden |
| Corey Stoll | Matti Klemm | Agent Mack |
| Dakota Fanning | Laura Elßel | Cassie Holmes |
| Ming-na Wen | Silke Matthias | Emily Hu |
| Djimon Hounsou | Erich Rauker | Henry Carver |
| Cliff Curtis | Tobias Kluckert | Hook Waters |
| Camilla Belle | Anne Helm | Kira Hollis |
| Chris Evans | Dennis Schmidt-Foss | Nick Gant |
| Joel Gretsch | Bernd Vollbrecht | Nick's father |
| Maggie Siff | Antje von der Ahe | Teresa Stowe |
| Neil Jackson | Bernhard Völger | Victor Budarin |
background
The film was shot in Hong Kong . The budget of the film was 38 million US dollars estimated. On January 29, 2009, the film celebrated its world premiere in California . The film was released in Germany on DVD and Blu-ray Disc with an FSK-16 rating on October 2, 2009 by Universum Film GmbH . Overall, US revenue was over $ 31.8 million.
Channing Tatum was originally intended to play the lead role . This was eventually given to Chris Evans, who caught the director's eye in the 2007 science fiction film Sunshine . Inspired by the film Casablanca , Hong Kong was chosen as the location because, according to the director, this is Casablanca's contemporary counterpart , a place where fugitives could hide. As further inspiration for the film, in particular the attempt to make people with supernatural abilities work for the military, US American projects of the Defense Intelligence Agency were used, above all the Stargate project for remote viewing . There are other similarities with experiments by Russian and American scientists from the Cold War era . In order to be able to capture as authentic a picture as possible during the recordings in the streets of Hong Kong, the film recordings of the scenes on the open street were made in guerrilla style , whereby, among other things, hidden cameras were filmed from delivery vans and many scenes were taken as one take . Although Camilla Belle in the role of Kira is kidnapped in a scene on the street and no clearly visible film crew could infer a film set , none of the passers-by reacted to help the actress.
A comic mini-series was released that tells the story that precedes the film. These comics, written by Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman with illustrations by Bruno Redondo , were published by Wildstorm .
Reviews
“If you talk quickly, you better get away. Scottish director Paul McGuigan understood this long ago. [..] And actually everything works with his B-Movie "Push" that you can no longer see in the overpriced, polished blockbuster mainstream. [..] With an imposing joy in playing, McGuigan spreads his story, more important than what is to him the how. Without a lot of computer effects, with great stunt work and pyrotechnics, impressively photographed (camera: Peter Sova) and with a pretty ensemble, “Push” is a small, angular genre film with an occasionally pleasantly nasty undertone. Above all, it's one without much talk. "
"In" Push "human abysses open up as the oppressively realistic idea of psychological manipulation and mind control is played out."
"The characters and the gloomy atmosphere comfort the familiar story elements."
"Well-equipped science fiction thriller with many special effects that the weak script and the cumbersome plot construction cannot cover up."
Awards
The film was nominated for a Golden Reel Award from Motion Picture Sound Editors in the category Best Sound Editing - Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film .
Web links
- Official website
- Push in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Push. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
- ↑ a b Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Internet Movie Database : Background information
- ^ Federation of American Scientists : STAR GATE [Controlled Remote Viewing].
- ↑ Handwork instead of computer power in Berliner Zeitung of October 8, 2009
- ^ Filmkritik Kino.de
- ^ Film review Cinema
- ↑ Push. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Nominations and Awards in the Internet Movie Database