Split (film)

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Movie
German title Split
Original title Split
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director M. Night Shyamalan
script M. Night Shyamalan
production Jason Blum ,
M. Night Shyamalan,
Marc Bienstock
music West Dylan Thordson
camera Mike Gioulakis
cut Luke Franco Ciarrocchi
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Unbreakable - Unbreakable

Successor  →
Glass

Split is an American psychological thriller from 2016 . Directed by M. Night Shyamalan , who also wrote the script and acted as co-producer. The film premiered on September 26, 2016 at Fantastic Fest in Austin , Texas . The film opened in US cinemas on January 20, 2017. It started in Germany on January 26, 2017.

The film turned out to be a stand-alone sequel to Unbreakable from 2000 after its release . Characters from both films meet in the sequel Glass , directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

action

The life of the two girls Claire and Marcia, who grew up in well-protected circumstances, turns into a nightmare when they are kidnapped by a sinister man after Claire's birthday party in her father's car. There is also the outsider Casey, who only invited Claire out of pity and was persuaded by Claire's father to let him drive her home. The girls are drugged and wake up in a basement room. The kidnapper Kevin turns out to be a person with dissociative identity disorder . It houses 23 different personalities that alternately determine its behavior. His therapist Dr. Karen Fletcher believes that people with this disorder can make physical changes with the change in personality and is fascinated by her abilities. Only one of Kevin's personalities is diabetic and dependent on insulin. Dr. Fletcher receives emails from some of Kevin's personalities asking for help. At their sessions he appears as Barry , a friendly young man who enjoys creating fashion drawings. When Fletcher asked if something had happened, he did not answer.

The kidnapper shows himself to the girls as Dennis , Patricia or as a nine-year-old boy Hedwig . Dennis , who has obsessive-compulsive hygiene-related disorder, tells them to take off some dirty clothes and talks about sacrificing the girls to the beast . After trying to escape, Claire and Marcia are housed separately in other rooms. Casey tries in vain to move Hedwig to allow them to escape. It turns out that Kevin also lives in the windowless basement. Hedwig shows Casey his nursery and proudly presents her with a radio. She tries to get help with it and reaches a man who thinks it is just a joke.

The personality of Dennis is also revealed to Dr. Fletcher. They talk about the beast , a superhuman, animal-like figure that is downright adored by Dennis and Patricia and is said to be on a train, as Kevin's father once disappeared on a train. She is the 24th personality and is led by Dr. At first, however, Fletcher was considered a mere fantasy figure. After a few more help emails, Dr. Fletcher to Kevin and discovers one of the kidnapped girls, whereupon she herself is drugged and locked up.

Kevin looks for a train in a train station and transforms into the terrifying beast with superior physical abilities. When he comes back, he kills Dr. Fletcher, Claire and Marcia. Dr. But Fletcher was still able to write Kevin's full name - Kevin Wendell Crumb -, which is a trigger for him , on a piece of paper that Casey finds. She addresses the beast by this name, whereupon it transforms itself back into Kevin for a short time. After hearing what he did, he tells Casey to shoot him and tells her where a shotgun and ammunition are kept. However, he becomes a beast again and pursues Casey. Casey, who learned to hunt as a child, tries to shoot the beast, but it appears to be invulnerable. When the beast sees the scars Casey has on her body, she is spared by her. Because only girls who know no suffering were intended as victims, but not "wounded" personalities with whom Kevin can identify. Casey is discovered and rescued by an employee of the zoo, in whose technical area the basement is located and where Kevin works.

In the last scene with Casey, a policewoman announces that her uncle, who has also been her guardian since her father's death, will pick her up and asks if she is ready. Since flashbacks throughout the film indicated that her uncle had been sexually abusing her since childhood, this question takes on a double dimension: from the start, the film tells the story of a victim of violence who had learned to behave towards the perpetrator through acting good behavior survive, but at the same time became aware of their own situation in the course of the action and may now be ready to no longer accept the abuse by their uncle.

Kevin is not caught. Some of his alter egos talk about revealing the beast's special powers to the world .

In a short final scene, several guests in a restaurant watch a TV report about the kidnapping of the girls and Kevin's actions. The perpetrator is referred to in the media as "The Horde". A woman points out the parallels with other crimes that were planned by a man in a wheelchair 15 years ago, but whose name she can no longer remember. The guest next to her with the name tag Dunn reminds her that the wheelchair user is a certain “Mr. Glass ”was.

production

After the hit horror film The Visit (2015), Shyamalan worked again with producer Jason Blum . Initially, Phoenix was under discussion for the role of Kevin Joaquin . Ultimately, James McAvoy was signed for the title role.

Filming took place in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , on a budget between $ 5 million and $ 10 million as of November 2015 . Post-shooting was done in June 2016. According to Shyamalan, Split is his longest film.

reception

English language reviews

In the United States and the United Kingdom, critics were positive about the film after it premiered in September 2016. Even after the performance at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles , the critics were praiseworthy. 77 percent of the 295 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes are benevolent and the Metacritic metascore is 62. The critical consensus at Rotten Tomatoes was: “ Split serves in several roles as a dramatic tour de force for James McAvoy - and a successful return for M. Night Shyamalan in gripping form. ”The audience ratings in the Internet Movie Database were positive with 7.4 out of 10 points (as of April 10, 2017).

Hollywood Reporter's John DeForce believed that at the end of the film, Shyamalan combined the subjects with more finesse than usual, using meaningful visual effects. The twist at the end is heavy and special ( doozy ). And the Guardian said, for example, Shyamalan's work was a "masterful mixture of Hitchcock , horror and therapy sessions". For Peter Debruge of the industry journal Variety , Split is a welcome return to old form for Shyamalan and a worthy thematic expansion of his earlier films. He also praised the acting performance of James McAvoy and spoke in this context of "the role of his life". Richard Roeper wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that Split was a "cool, creepy, bold and absurd" movie that proves that Shyamalan has still not lost a lot of plot tricks up its sleeve and its mastery as a director. The film critic James Berardinelli, however, described Shyamalan's work as one of his worst films. The narrative is "choppy" and the film is full of horror movie clichés.

German-language reviews

In the German-speaking countries, too, the reviews were mostly positive. Sidney Schering described the Shyamalan's “by far the most macabre, but also the most consistent directorial work” in the Odds Meter Split . In the last third of the film, the director succeeds "once again in uniting a wide variety of genre influences into a whole". Furthermore, Split is a "highly exciting, clever game" and James McAvoy is "spectacularly good". And for Andrey Arnold from DiePresse the film captivates with “masterful suspense scenes”, even if the script has some weaknesses. The highlight of Split is the performance of McAvoy. He gives each of his roles a "distinctive profile" and would have received a nomination for the acting Oscar in "a less staid world [...]." In the specialist magazine Filmdienst , Jörg Gerle was of the opinion that Shyamalan's work was a "brilliantly designed psychodrama" that was convincing due to its "formal skill" and "the impressive art of representation". And the conclusion of the film magazine Cinema was: “Mixture of kidnapping drama and subtle horror film, elegantly staged and extremely exciting”. Jenni Zylka said on Spiegel Online that the film was "a real horror genre". She also praised McAvoy's acting. And in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , David Steinitz praised Shyamalan's production with the "spectacular twists and turns". It is so good because the director's cinematic art is fed “from the tradition of B-film”, where “dramaturgical laws of mainstream film” do not apply. Steinitz criticized the quality of the German dubbed version.

The German film and media rating gave the film the rating “particularly valuable” and spoke of a new “grandiose masterpiece” Shyamalan: “Split takes the main motifs of his previous films and condenses them into a captivating and at times nerve-wracking story . The play with the supernatural in his films takes a back seat, thematically pushing the director into a new dimension. His name now finally has to be mentioned in a row with the names of Wes Craven or David Cronenberg , the great innovators of the genre in American independent cinema. Like his role models, he also stages a highly topical social parable. SPLIT holds up the mirror to a liberal, narcissistic society that is overwhelmed by taming the wolf in humans. "

Criticism from those affected

The American psychologist Michelle Stevens, who has a dissociative identity disorder herself , criticizes the director in an open letter. In the bad Hollywood tradition, Shyamalan uses a disorder that many people suffer from in order to turn it into gruesome entertainment. By portraying these people as dangerous monsters, he insults countless sick people and exposes them to cruel and completely unjustified prejudice. Other authors have also called the portrayal of the disorder within the film "exaggerated and fictionalized". A statistical analysis could not find a connection between dissociative identity disorder and criminal behavior. The international specialist society ISSTD fears that the film will contribute to further stigmatization .

success

In the USA, Split landed at number one on the US box office chart on its opening weekend with a grossing of around 40.1 million US dollars and was thus well ahead of the further restart xXx: The Return of Xander Cage , which made around 20 million US dollars . Could bring in US dollars. Shyamalan had the fifth best film release in January. With box office earnings of 25.7 million US dollars, Split was able to maintain its top position in US cinemas on the second weekend. The film stayed at number one on the charts for the third weekend as well, with revenues of $ 14.5 million. This makes Split Shyamalan's first film since The Sixth Sense (1999), which stayed at the top of the US box office for three consecutive weeks.

In Germany, too, Shyamalan's film reached first place in the cinema charts with around 270,000 visitors on its opening weekend with 407 copies. In the week from January 30th to February 5th, Split remained at the top of the German charts and now had a total of around 620,000 viewers. Up to May 7th, the film had 1,213,847 visitors in Germany, which brought in around 8.32 million euros.

As of June 13, 2017, the global box office totaled US $ 277 million, including US $ 138.7 million from the United States.

synchronization

The synchronization was carried out by RC Production Kunze & Wunder GmbH & Co. KG in Berlin. Klaus Bickert wrote the dialogue book , while Sven Hasper took over the dialogue direction.

Awards

Anya Taylor-Joy was nominated for the London Critics' Circle Film Award in 2017 for her role as Best Young British Actress . Split also received a nomination for best film at the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards 2017. At the Saturn Awards 2017, Shyamalan's film was also nominated for best thriller and Betty Buckley for best supporting actress. James McAvoy was nominated for Best Actor at the 2017 MTV Movie Awards . The film received a Golden Trailer Award in the “Best Thriller Poster” category.

Sequels

A sequel entitled Glass was announced for 2019 in April 2017 . Shyamalan will be directing again. The film is intended to combine and continue the films Split and Unbreakable - Unbreakable beyond what has been suggested so far. Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson will be seen in their former roles.

The resulting trilogy thus falls into a coherent film universe, which M. Night Shyamalan dubbed “Eastrail 177 Universe”. Shyamalan chose this name because of the train accident that occurred at the beginning of Unbreakable , in which not only Bruce Willis' character David Dunn was made aware of her powers, but also the father of James McAvoy's character Kevin Wendell Crumb was killed. (In Split , all that is said is that Kevin's father "left" him on this train.)

Shyamalan has so far left unanswered whether there will be further parts within this film universe.

Web links

Individual evidence

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