Tattoo (film)
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| Original title | Tattoo |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , English , Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Robert Schwentke |
| script | Robert Schwentke |
| production | Jan Hinter , Roman Kuhn |
| music | Martin Todsharow |
| camera | Jan Fehse |
| cut | Peter Przygodda |
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Tattoo [tə'tu:] is a German thriller by Robert Schwentke from 2002 .
action
At the beginning you see a naked woman from behind, walking across a dark street with a badly injured back. She dies in a collision with a bus coming off a side street.
A criminal case then begins with the two Commissioners Minks and Schrader. The young Schrader, who has just completed his training in the police school, has experience with the red light district and the drug scene . The experienced colleague Minks uses this information to blackmail Schrader. If he doesn't work with him on the homicide squad, his career will end prematurely. Minks urgently needs access to a world that is alien to him, because there is a serial killer who is after unusual prey: the psychopath looks for victims with large tattoos . After killing them, he peeled off the decorated skin and sold it to collectors.
During the research, the commissioners find more and more mutilated bodies. Schrader is distracted from the investigation when he meets the attractive Maya, a victim's girlfriend. Minks, on the other hand, is worried about his teenage daughter Marie, who left him over two years ago after his wife's death. He fears that she has gotten into the drug scene.
Schrader succeeds in locating Marie and learns that the reason for her disappearance was the overwhelming need to protect her father, which she was no longer able to cope with. At the same time, it is slowly becoming clear that the killer is apparently a collector of rare tattoos. This tip comes from another collector, Frank Schoubya, who, among other things, buys tattoos from junkie Stefan to preserve and hang them up. Schrader begins a relationship with Maya, who, it turns out, is also extensively tattooed and is the last work of art by the best Japanese tattoo artist before he committed suicide.
Schrader succeeds in finding the person who carried out the murders. This reveals to Schrader that he was commissioned to carry out the murders. When Schrader draws his gun to prevent him from escaping, the killer pulls the gun toward him and pulls the trigger, making it look like Schrader shot him in the mouth.
On the same day, Minks got a small package delivered to the police station that contained a small flap of skin with a tattooed devil, a car key and a parking ticket. Schrader recognizes Marie's tattoo. Minks goes to the parking garage and opens a suitcase in Marie's car. He then drives his car and the suitcase in which the body of his daughter is probably in a lonely place and shoots himself.
Schrader is now trying harder to find the real criminal. He puts Maya on the internet as bait and offers the tattoo of the first victim for sale. However, the action does not go as planned: a colleague dies, the tattoo is stolen and Maya, who was under police protection, disappears without a trace.
Schrader learns from his colleague that Maya is suspected of killing the Japanese tattoo artist in New York. It seems that she is behind all the murders in Germany. She was the friend of the tattoo artist and apparently couldn't stand how he lost interest in her as soon as her tattoo, his masterpiece, was finished. Despite the burning of the tattoo collection, Schrader tries in vain to find out more from the lawyer Schoubya.
Finally, Maya is seen sitting in a café, looking at the waiter's tattoo in the style of her ex-boyfriend who was killed. After the first part of the credits you can see Schrader getting Maya's tattoo the traditional way.
Trivia
- The idea of a murderer dealing with tattoos can already be found in a short story by Roald Dahl .
- The tattoo on Joe Bausch's body resembles the color woodcut The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai
Reviews
"A crude crime thriller, interspersed with drastic splatter effects, which spells out its deep black scenario thoroughly and describes an inhumane and radically desolate world without morality and orientation."
“ Tattoo , on the other hand, tends towards the hardcore version of anatomy , a monochrome, hopeless and uncompromising nightmare without blond Gretchen and without light at the end of the tunnel, a gloomy, disturbing night without morning. With this debut, Robert Schwentke should have set the bar unusually high for his next film. "
“Like a mixture of The Silence of the Lambs and Seven , Tattoo comes there. Dark, mysterious and inexplicable in terms of motifs. However, the “German counterpart” actually doesn't manage to build up the tension of the Hollywood models in any scene. In addition, the "disgust factor" has been set a bit high here; you look at it and prefer to get away. And so the film runs in the sand after a good half hour - or in the dark ... It's a pity, because there are good beginnings ... "
Awards
- 2002: Nomination for Golden Camera
- 2002: Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in silver at the Sweden Fantastic Film Festival
- 2003: International Fantasy Film Award from Fantasporto
Web links
- Tattoo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tattoo at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for tattoo . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2003 (PDF; test number: 89 892 V).
- ^ Tattoo in the Lexicon of International Films
- ^ Criticism on filmstarts.de
- ^ Criticism on moviemaster.de