The Voices
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Voices |
| Original title | The Voices |
| Country of production | United States , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marjane Satrapi |
| script | Michael R. Perry |
| production |
Adi Shankar , Spencer Silna , Matthew Rhodes , Roy Lee |
| music | Oliver Bernet |
| camera | Maxime Alexandre |
| cut | Stéphane Roche |
| occupation | |
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The Voices is an American-German black comedy released in 2014 . Directed by Marjane Satrapi and the script is by Michael R. Perry . The main characters are Ryan Reynolds , Gemma Arterton , Anna Kendrick and Jacki Weaver . The film had its world premiere on January 19, 2014 at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival .
action
Jerry is an optimist who has paranoid schizophrenia and is therefore receiving psychotherapy. He works in a bathtub factory and lives alone in an apartment above a bowling alley. In his hallucinations he often has conversations with his dog Bosco and his cat Mr. Whiskers, which manipulate his thoughts and actions. The dog represents the good and conscientious side of his personality, while the cat represents the dark and instinctual side of his subconscious. One day his manager praises him for his work and chooses him to help organize a staff barbecue . While preparing, he meets Fiona, a British colleague from accounting, and asks her out on a date. Based on the mood of the moment, she agrees, but later regrets it and tries to avoid him. On the day of the date in a Chinese restaurant, she deliberately tells Jerry the date on his mailbox after work and goes to a karaoke party with a colleague. Jerry doesn't get the message in time and spends the evening alone and frustrated in the restaurant.
After the party, Fiona is unable to get home alone because her car and cellphone are broken. On the way back from the restaurant, Jerry accidentally finds her hitchhiking on the side of the road and offers to take her home. Out of a guilty conscience towards Jerry, she suggests making up for the missed date in a diner despite the late hour . Jerry agrees. The way there leads through a remote forest area. While driving, Jerry is so distracted by the attractive Fiona that he doesn't pay attention to the road, collides head-on with a roebuck and hits the animal with his head through the windshield of Jerry's pick-up truck. Fiona reacts hysterically at the sight of the bleeding animal. Jerry, however, believes the roebuck is speaking to him and asking him to release him from his pain and suffering. Believing he is doing something good, Jerry cuts the supposedly suffering animal in front of the terrified Fiona. Fiona then runs into the forest to escape him. Jerry follows her, fearing that she might get lost in the wilderness at night. She trips and he catches up with her. He also trips and accidentally injures her with the knife he is still holding in his hand. He apologizes for hurting her and kills her with a stab in the heart to relieve her from her suffering as well. Then he stabbed her body several times.
Back at his house, Bosco tells him to go to the police and confess how the incident came about. On the other hand, Mr. Whiskers tells him there is no disgrace to killing, but insists that Jerry should not report to the police and dispose of the body in order not to be identified as a murderer based on evidence. Jerry takes the corpse from the woods to his apartment, chops it up, packs the body parts in plastic cans and puts her severed head in his refrigerator. Fiona's head now begins to talk to him and forgives him for the act, but insists that he take his medication to stop his behavior. Jerry takes his pills and is troubled by childhood memories. When he wakes up that night, he no longer has hallucinations - his pets can no longer talk to him, his apartment is completely neglected and Fiona's head is cold and rotten. In a panic he washes down the pills in the sink, his hallucinations return and his life is as happy as before. Fiona tries to persuade Jerry to get her a friend because it is so lonely in the refrigerator. So he's supposed to kill someone else, but Jerry refuses at first. Finally, under increasing pressure from Mr. Whiskers and Fiona, he changes his attitude.
Jerry asks Lisa, Fiona's colleague, out on a date. He brings her to his abandoned parents' house to kill her there. There it becomes apparent that his mother was also mentally ill. When an ambulance was supposed to pick her up again at the psychiatric hospital, she tried in vain to cut her carotid artery with a piece of glass, which she couldn't do. She finally begged Jerry to help her and end her suffering, which he did and was then found completely disturbed by the police in the bedroom together with her body. Jerry starts to cry, Lisa wants to comfort him and kisses him. They go to her home and spend the night together. When Jerry returns home, Mr. Whiskers and Fiona continue to pressurize him to kill someone.
Lisa finds out Jerry's address and brings him a present. When Jerry accidentally locks himself out of the apartment and tries to get back in through a skylight, Lisa manages to open the door. She walks through his neglected apartment and finds the head of Fiona's body. Jerry is heartbroken that she's violating his privacy, but despite pressure from Mr. Whiskers, he refuses to kill her. Lisa suggests that we forget everything that has happened. After she locks herself in his bedroom while trying to escape from the apartment, he breaks the door open and throws her onto his bed while trying to escape. He accidentally breaks her thoracic spine and she can no longer move. Eventually he kills her too and dismembered her body. He puts her head in the refrigerator next to Fiona's head. Colleagues of the two women now notice that Fiona and Lisa have disappeared. When Alison, another colleague, goes to Jerry's house to ask if he knows where they are, he kills and dismembers them too.
Jerry admits his actions to his therapist Dr. Warren. She tries to call the police, but he takes her hostage to force her to help him. She can calm him down at first and shows understanding, which makes him feel better. In the meantime, two other work colleagues have started looking for the missing women. While John waits in the car, Dave breaks into Jerry's apartment and finds the remains of Lisa, Fiona, and Alison. Dave and John alert the police. Jerry returns with his hostage Dr. Warren back home. The house is now being surrounded by the police and access is being prepared. Jerry escapes through a ventilation shaft down into the bowling alley. This leads to a break in the gas line. Bosco and Mr. Whiskers are rescued and taken to a shelter, Dr. Warren is admitted to hospital. The police stopped access because of the gas leak, which ultimately caused a huge explosion. Jerry ultimately lies down to die in the bowling alley and suffocates from the smoke.
Bosco and Mr. Whiskers meet in a white void. They admit that despite their conflicting beliefs, they liked each other before going their separate ways. Jerry appears and meets his parents, Lisa, Fiona, Alison and Jesus. They dance and sing together.
synchronization
| Role name | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jerry Hickfang | Ryan Reynolds | Dennis Schmidt-Foss |
| Fiona | Gemma Arterton | Maria Koschny |
| Lisa | Anna Kendrick | Anne Helm |
| Dr. Warren | Jacki Weaver | Katarina Tomaschewsky |
| Sheriff Weinbacher | Stanley Townsend | Marco Kroeger |
production
Filming began in April 2013 and took place in the Babelsberg studio in Potsdam , as well as at various locations in Berlin and Brandenburg. The Voices is a co-production between Mandalay Vision, 1984 Private Defense Contractors, Vertigo Entertainment and Studio Babelsberg. It is Satrapi's second collaboration with Babelsberg after the critically acclaimed Chicken with Plums starring Isabella Rossellini . The film was funded by the German Film Funding Fund (DFFF) , the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Film Funding Agency (FFA) .
On March 5, 2014 Lions Gate Entertainment acquired the marketing rights for the film for the US market. The film was released on February 6, 2015 via video-on-demand and in a few selected independent cinemas. He brought in 5000 USD on the opening weekend .
criticism
The Voices has received mixed reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes , the movie received a 75% score based on 87 votes, with an average rating of 6.6 / 10. Individual comments on the site note that " The Voices Ryan Reynolds offers high-performance performance - and unconventional pleasure for black comedy fans." Metacritic determined a metascore of 58/100 based on 24 reviews.
Oliver Kaever, film critic of the time , sees the Iranian exile Marjane Satrapi, who was once celebrated for Persepolis , with her comedy "The Voices" "painfully clear at the bottom of her artistic career". "As bizarre as the story may sound, so lame and contourless, the film turned out to be terribly banal and good."
Andreas Platthaus from the FAZ criticizes the script, which is responsible for a possible career setback for the two female stars Gemma Arterton and Anna Kendrick . “Marjane Satrapi staged all of this with the knowledge of a director who knows trick technique inside out. But unfortunately she has also mastered the art of film financing, which in Europe consists of one basic rule: Germany has the most public money. So the film was shot in Babelsberg and the surrounding area, and the way Central German forests and factories appear here as an American province is satirical in itself. The actors have no chance against these completely unsuccessful decorations, in which the production design sometimes planted an English-language sign, although they are all English speakers. "
The editorial team of Cinema , on the other hand, gave the highest rating and wrote: "Anyone who has a weakness for the weird fantasies of Terry Gilliam or the surreal plot constructions of Jean-Pierre Jeunet will enjoy the morbid humor of" The Voices "."
The television magazine Prisma said: “Thanks to high-class TV series, people now trust audiences to deal with morally ambivalent characters. Such a figure waits for the moviegoers in "The Voices" [...] Satrapi does not limit himself to the genre standard of grotesque murders, but illuminates the tragic side as well as the comic - it is still bloody. Lead actor Ryan Reynolds - often scolded - delivers a one-man show that will be remembered for a long time. "
The film service judged: “A grotesque with horror elements that thrives on the comical-gruesome contrast between the brutality of the psychopath and his naive, ignorant worldview. Despite all the innuendo of the production, the winking game with horror remains an ambivalent matter. "
Awards and nominations
- 2014: L'Etrange Festival , Grand Prix of the Festival and Audience Award.
- 2015: Festival International du Film Fantastique de Gérardmer , “Audience Award” and “Jury Award”.
Web links
- The Voices in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Voices at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The Voices at Metacritic (English)
- The Voices in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Voices . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 138 K).
- ↑ Sundance 2014: World Cinema Dramatic Competition . Retrieved May 5, 2014.
- ^ The Voices. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on February 5, 2015 .
- ↑ Ryan Reynolds takes a break from filming in Germany to grab dinner with co-star Gemma Arterton . In: dailymail.co.uk , April 22, 2013. Retrieved July 15, 2013.
- ^ Studio Babelsberg AG: Successful premiere of THE VOICES in Berlin studiobabelsberg.com on April 22, 2015, accessed on February 10, 2017
- ^ Lionsgate Acquires Sundance Pic 'The Voices' . In: deadline.com , March 5, 2014. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Voices-The#tab=summary
- ^ The Voices . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved February 5, 2015.
- ^ The Voices . In: Metacritic . Retrieved February 5, 2015.
- ↑ Oliver Kaever: Pictures of the funny serial killer ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Die Zeit, April 29, 2015, accessed on July 29, 2017
- ^ Andreas Platthaus: Voices concert of the wordless in: Frankfurter Allgemeine, April 29, 2014, accessed on July 29, 2017
- ^ The Voices on Cinema.de, accessed on July 29, 2017
- ^ The Voices on Prisma.de, accessed on July 29, 2017
- ^ The Voices on Filmdienst.de, accessed on July 29, 2017
- ↑ ScreenAnarchy ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ IMDb
