Trauma (film)

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Movie
German title Trauma
Original title trauma
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Marc Evans
script Richard Smith
production Nicky Kentish Barnes ,
Jonathan Cavendish
for Little Bird
music Alex Heffes
camera John Mathieson
cut Mags Arnold
occupation

Traumata is a 2004 British psychological thriller directed by Marc Evans .

action

Painter Ben wakes up from a coma in the hospital . He was in a car accident in which his wife Elisa was killed. On the day of his awakening, television reports on the violent death of singer Lauren Parris, with whom Elisa was friends. When Ben is released from the hospital, his wife has already been buried. Her family had a video recording of the funeral made for Ben.

Ben moves to a former hospital and gets a job with his friend, the restorer Tommy. He also makes the acquaintance of his new neighbor Charlotte, who is also the property manager. Since his death his psychiatrist has been visiting him regularly, who also looked after him shortly after the death of his parents. Back then, an ominous Charlotte became the mother substitute for Ben, who was also reading the novel Charlotte's Web , which he still carries with him - the book contains a photo of a child with an adult woman. The psychiatrist wants to know who Charlotte, whom Ben calls his aunt, really was, but Ben never gives an answer to that question.

Ben is soon sought out by Detective Jackson as the possible murderer of Lauren Parris. In fact, Ben made a collection of accounts of Lauren's death and also owns CDs of her. Jackson reveals to him that he is known as a stalker , but Ben can't remember anything before the accident. More and more things happen that he cannot classify. He suspects that he quarreled with his wife shortly before her death, but doesn't know why. His bred ants seem to be outside their terrarium more and more often , a picture of Elisa that he has painted on the wall is suddenly covered with black paint, and the photo album he looked at with Charlotte the day before is charred the next day. Ben thinks he can hear voices and see Elisa on the street. When a medium tells him that Elisa is still alive, he goes to see her sister. He wants to know more about his behavior towards Lauren from her and learns that he was never interested in her, but that he followed her friend Elisa obsessively. It soon becomes apparent that Elisa is still alive - she visits him and explains to him that she was not in the car in the accident because they had argued beforehand and he left her standing in the rain. They were also no longer together at the time of the accident because he would have been obsessive and at the same time always denied his own mistakes to himself. The recorded funeral service is an excerpt from Lauren's funeral.

Ben now directs his suspicions against Charlotte, in whom he believes an accomplice in the conspiracy against him. When she explains to him that she has a spider phobia , he first puts a plastic spider on her hand. She later comes to him to begin "phase 2" of the spider habituation. He goes with her to the basement of the apartment building where the hospital corpses used to be stored. After asking her to trust him, he lets a spider crawl into her mouth and then brutally kills Charlotte. Tommy finds Ben in his apartment, apparently speaking to his psychiatrist - but in reality there is a mirror on the chair.

A little later, Ben is in the psychiatric ward and learns on the news that Lauren's killer has been caught. Jackson is with him and explains to him that he would only have been considered as the murderer of Laurens because of a few characteristics, but that this has not already made him the murderer he is now. When asked that the victim was named Charlotte, Ben replied, "I know."

production

From April 2003, Traumata was filmed in Canary Wharf , London and the Isle of Man , among others . The film premiered on January 19, 2004 at the Sundance Film Festival and opened on September 17, 2004 in Great Britain. In Germany the film did not come to the cinema, but was released on January 26, 2006 directly on DVD.

criticism

For the film service , Traumata was a “mixture of thriller, horror and psychodrama, which in long shots focuses less on dialogues and action than on the atmosphere of the locations. However, neither the spatial fantasies nor the passable performance of the main actor can hide the outrageous story, the riddling of which is less exciting than rather confusing. "

Cinema called the film a "hallucinatory, oppressive psycho trip" in which "Colin Firth [...] as a deranged artist who in a car accident [is] convincing his wife and apparently also his mind."

Award

Frankie & Jonny received a BAFTA Interactive Award at the BAFTA Awards in 2005 for designing their website on trauma .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Trauma . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2005 (PDF; test number: 104 430 DVD).
  2. ↑ Traumas. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ See cinema.de
  4. ↑ See frankiandjonny.com