Third star

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Movie
Original title Third star
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 92 minutes
Rod
Director Hattie Dalton
script Vaughan Sivell
production Kelly Broad, Vaughan Sivell
music Stephen Hilton
camera Carlos Catalan
cut Peter Christelis
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Third Star is a British film directed by Hattie Dalton. The film premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in June 2010 and was released on DVD in the UK on May 20, 2011.

content

After celebrating his 29th birthday, James, a young man suffering from cancer, takes his three best friends Davy, Bill and Miles on one last hike to his favorite beach on Barafundle Bay .

Davy is a kind, loyal, and responsible man who has been unemployed for a long time and who helps James' family take care of James. Bill is high-spirited and adventurous and everyone is hoping that he will finally break up with his girlfriend who is constantly suppressing him. Miles is a handsome, intellectual man who eventually became a businessman and he is the son of a successful writer who also died of cancer when Miles was a child. James and Miles' friendship was very close and often bordered on rivalry, especially when it came to writing. James is already too weak to walk, so most of the time he sits in a special vehicle during the hike and not only needs a lot of help from his friends, but also morphine and other medication to endure his chronic pain and other symptoms. He has already resigned himself to the fact that he is about to die and, like a child, enjoys all the little things that the trip offers them. His lack of strength and the increasing ailments bring out his bitterness, which arises from the knowledge that his life will be over before he has even had time to make something of it.

As they wander across the uneven and isolated coastline, the young men fool around to offer James the time of his life. You will also meet a wide variety of strange people and situations and are confronted with a number of problems and accidents (including the loss of important luggage and, ultimately, James' vehicle). Your nerves and patience are tested by James' tantrums: some on purpose and some because of the pain he is enduring. Davy feels humiliated by James' observations; Bill tells them that his girlfriend is pregnant and that he can't leave her because of it, even though he knows they don't go together; Miles counters James' tantrums with brutal honesty. At some point, James and Miles reveal the secrets they had from each other: James had found, read and copied the manuscript Miles had finished years ago without telling anyone, and has been jealous of him since, but also impressed with his talent. Miles had stayed away from James lately because he couldn't deal with his best friend's illness and imminent death. He also sleeps with James' married sister, and she and their children will move in with Miles in the future (a secret Miles never wanted to tell James).

On the night they finally arrive at Barafundle Bay, James explains to his friends the real purpose of this trip: He had planned from the outset that he would drown himself here in the sea while he was still alive and before the pain of the Illness completely gripped his life. He asks his friends to allow him and tell everyone that they woke up early in the morning and found his body in the water. Horrified by the thought, they refuse, but after losing James' morphine and seeing him struggle with the pain, they change their minds. The next morning James swims out with his friends and at some point Miles helps him drown himself near the shore and brings his body back to the beach.

The film ends with a comment from James: “ So I raise a morphine toast to you all, and, if you should happen to remember it's the anniversary of my birth, remember that you were loved by me and that you made my life a happy one. And there's no tragedy in that. ”(“ And so I have a morphine toast to all of you and, if you should remember that it is the anniversary of my birth, remember that I loved you and that you made my life happy there is nothing tragic about it. ")

criticism

“On the one hand, [Hattie Dalton] shows the irrepressible joie de vivre and vitality of these four young men, who never drift into the striking or silly, but rather infect the viewer, only to keep coming back to the essential questions of our existence. In doing so, she proceeds extremely carefully, suggests, never judges and is not afraid to let contradictions stand. With Benedict Cumberbatch […] as well as JJ Feild, Tom Burke and Adam Robertson as his friends, she has found four actors who give their roles just the right amount of sensitivity, and with Carlos Catalán a cameraman who reflects the intention of this film with its unique Images and landscape shots are excellently supported. "

- Top video news

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Third Star . Top video news. Publisher: Children's and Youth Film Center on behalf of the BMFSFJ .