Strange Days (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Strange days |
| Original title | Strange days |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 139 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kathryn Bigelow |
| script |
James Cameron , Jay Cocks |
| production | James Cameron, Steven-Charles Jaffe |
| music | Graeme Revell |
| camera | Matthew F. Leonetti |
| cut | Howard E. Smith |
| occupation | |
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Strange Days is a science fiction -Actionthriller the director Kathryn Bigelow from the year 1995 , from a screenplay by James Cameron and Jay Cocks , with Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett in the lead roles.
The dubbing company Hermes Synchron GmbH, Potsdam, was responsible for the German dubbing and Tobias Meister was responsible for the dialogue book and dialogue direction. The film opened in German cinemas on February 1, 1996.
action
The ex-police officer and antihero Lenny Nero earns his living as a dealer of banned so-called "clips". These are recordings of other people's experiences stored on a kind of MiniDisc : everything they see, hear and, above all, feel at the time of the recording is stored. These clips are recorded and retrieved with the help of a type of cable hat. This SQUID - headset transmits the electromagnetic signals of the brain ( magnetoencephalography ) to the data recorder. When playing, this clip acts as a kind of virtual reality for the user (called “wiretripping” or “replay” in the film). Nero deals with the clips like drugs. He gets them, for example, from criminals who filmed their adrenaline-filled break-in. With the ability to simulate a completely different reality, consuming these clips triggers a search effect.
Lenny's good friend, the bodyguard Mace (whom Lenny has long loved one-sidedly), is reluctant to see his business and tries to keep herself and her young son away from this technology and crime in general, which is not in the dark, fictional Los Angeles shortly before the turn of the millennium is easy. She worries about Lenny, who uses the clips to reminisce about his broken relationship with rock singer Faith. In his clips you can see the two of them rollerblading in the sunshine and later making love in a hotel room. But his real attempts to contact Faith again fail. She is now a successful singer and lets him down . Her producer and new partner Philo Gant doesn't like Lenny's advances either and chases him away.
When Lenny is sitting in a bar with his best friend Max, a private detective , his acquaintance, the noble whore Iris, suddenly appears. She is being followed and tries in vain to give Lenny a clip. Instead, she puts it in his car, where Lenny doesn't find it until much later. The clip recorded by Iris is explosive evidence as it shows the black political rapper Jeriko One (a Philo Gant contract artist) being executed by two racist white police officers in an arbitrary police operation. Iris, who escaped from the scene of the crime, is therefore pursued by the police as a witness to the murder.
A day later, Lenny was shown another clip showing the rape and murder of Iris. Lenny and his friends Max and Tick try to find Iris' killer. Because he suspects Philo, he tries to convince Faith to leave him. Since it is December 31, 1999, the city is about to celebrate the turn of the millennium. Lenny and Mace drive to Philo Gant's party where Faith and her band are performing. Lenny gives Mace the incriminating clip, who hands it over to the police chief who is also present. Meanwhile, on his worried search for Faith in her hotel suite, Lenny finds Philo with irreparable brain damage and another clip that proves that Iris' killer is his friend Max, who has also started an affair with Faith. Background: Philo Gant is addicted to the SQUID clips and has become extremely suspicious. Philo hired Max as Faith's bodyguard a month earlier - not really to protect her, but to watch over her. Philo also commissioned Max to murder Iris because he paid Iris to spy on the artist Jeriko One, who is under contract with him. Philo feared that Iris would tell the public that he was spying on his artists.
Max and Faith appear in the suite. It turns out that Max has made arrangements to blame Lenny for the murders of Iris and Philo. A fight ensues and Max falls to his death from the balcony. Lenny leaves Faith and starts looking for Mace. This has in the meantime been hunted by the murderers of Jeriko One. Outside, Mace manages to use quick surprise attacks to chain the two police officers to scaffolding with their own handcuffs. In the middle of the celebrating crowd in front of the hotel, it is decided which side the Los Angeles police are on: When the other police officers present beat Mace at the behest of their colleagues lying on the ground, the police chief suddenly appears in the fray and orders the two police officers to be arrested. One of the two then commits suicide, the other tries to shoot Mace - but Lenny, who has since become a hero, throws himself in between. The second murderer dies in a hail of bullets from his colleagues. Lenny is only slightly injured; shortly before saying goodbye again, he realizes his feelings and kisses Mace.
background
Occasionally, elements of the cyberpunk genre appear in the film . In particular, these are the basic dystopian mood and the virtual realities that make previously subjective recorded experiences and sensory impressions tangible. The overall constellation finds its real-historical forerunner in several aspects in LA in 1991 in the mistreatment of Rodney King by the local police, which later led to the most massive riots in the region.
The basic idea of the film, the recording of thoughts and experiences as well as their potential abuse, was also discussed in the 1982 project Brainstorm .
criticism
"A visual fireworks display and one of the most extraordinary New Year's Eve films in recent decades."
“A technically virtuoso utopia that addresses the increasing tendency of the visual media towards aggressive stimulation. But it is more and more overgrown by an everyday thriller story and thus itself slips into the speculative. "
"Stylish tech noir fantasy with - then as now - an illustrious ensemble"
Awards
1996 Angela Bassett as Best Actress with the Saturn Award excellent. Kathryn Bigelow received the award for Best Director . The film was nominated for another award in the categories of Best Actor ( Ralph Fiennes ), Best Science Fiction Film and Best Screenplay .
Web links
- Strange Days at theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Strange Days in the online film database
- Strange Days in the All Movie Guide (English)
- Strange Days atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Strange Days . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2009 (PDF; test number: 74 390 V).
- ^ Strange Days (1995) German synchronous card index . Retrieved February 6, 2018.
- ↑ A visual fireworks display. In: femundo.de . Retrieved December 30, 2017 .
- ^ Strange Days. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 31, 2016 .
- ^ Strange Days. In: Cinema . Hubert Burda Media , accessed on May 31, 2016 .