Shell (2012)

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Movie
German title Shell
Original title Shell
Country of production Scotland
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 86 minutes
Rod
Director Scott Graham
script Scott Graham
production David Smith ,
Margaret Matheson
camera Yoliswa gardened
cut Rachel Tunnard
occupation

Shell is an independent film and drama of Scott Graham from the year 2012 . He describes a father-daughter relationship "on the brink of incest ". The work is an adaptation of an earlier work that Graham published under the same name in 2007.

action

17-year-old Shell lives in the Scottish Highlands with her father Pete . He runs a small gas station on a street with little traffic . He earns a few extra pounds by repairs to vehicles involved in an accident . Shell's mother left the family many years ago and so the daughter took over the household. She cooks for her father, does laundry and takes care of him when he has an epileptic fit.

Otherwise their life together is rather meager and not very varied. A truck thunders by in the morning and wakes them up. Pete then works on the vehicles while Shell serves the petrol station's few customers. One of them is Hugh, who occasionally comes to the area to see his children after separating from his wife. One day he gives the teenager a pair of jeans. When Shell tries her on, he chases after her and harasses her; Shell resists, and Hugh hurries out of the gas station. The only contact with people of the same age is Adam, who works in the neighboring sawmill and occasionally helps out in his mother's pub .

In the barren landscape, father and daughter are on their own. Shell and Pete struggle daily with their feelings for each other, always on the verge of crossing borders. Pete knows that he has to distance himself from his growing daughter, especially as she is becoming more and more like his wife. One evening in winter, the heating in the small apartment went out. He initially reacts gruffly when Shell comes to bed with him to warm up. Finally he agrees and enjoys the togetherness. Shell's relationship with Adam is no less complicated. Although the two sleep together from time to time, Shell does not find any satisfaction in this. One day Adam comes to the gas station and tells them that he has been fired. Tools were stolen in the sawmill and he was suspected. He asks to work for Pete. In the long term he wanted to build “something of his own” anyway, but Pete turned him down.

One day a young mother stops at the gas station and asks that her little daughter can use the toilet. When Shell discovers that the girl has lost her doll in the gas station, she runs after the car and is able to give her the doll back. Then she lies down in the highlands and looks dreamily at the sky. Pete looks for his daughter, but finds her. He has another epileptic fit and is found by Shell on their return. During the seizure, he bites Shell's hand. She calms him down, puts him to bed and when they are both there they kiss.

Pete wakes up at night to see Shell and the injuries on her hand. He realizes that he can't go on living like this. He gets up and throws himself in front of a passing truck. After the ambulance and the police leave again, Shell is alone with Adam in the gas station. He tries to comfort her. For the first time, a truck stops at the gas station. Shell refueled the vehicle, climbed into the car with the driver and drove with him.

criticism

The TV movie sees the "monumental, brittle landscape," a reflection of the "monotony" of the protagonists. As a result, the liberation act at the end of the film "all the stronger". The Swiss cinema portal “the other film” sees the work as “a troubled and stirring chamber play” as well as a touching, disturbing, but also “occasionally disturbing” film. The Hörzu expressed similarly positive and describes the film as a "one wehklagendes piece of dark poetry." She thinks the film is overall a success.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shell , website on arte.tv, accessed on January 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ Shell , TV Spielfilm website, accessed on January 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ Shell , Portal the other film, accessed January 21, 2018.
  4. ↑ Shell , Hörzu website, accessed on January 21, 2018.