Unsane - Delivered
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German title | Unsane - Delivered |
Original title | Unsane |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2018 |
length | 98 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | Steven Soderbergh |
script |
Jonathan Bernstein , James Greer |
production | Joseph Malloch |
music | David Wilder Savage |
camera | Peter Andrews |
cut | Mary Ann Bernard |
occupation | |
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Unsane - Delivered (original title Unsane ) is a horror thriller by Steven Soderbergh , which premiered on February 21, 2018 in the competition (out of competition) of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival , in US cinemas on March 23, 2018 and on March 29, 2018 March 2018 in German cinemas. The focus of the plot is a former stalking victim (played by Claire Foy ) who is admitted to a psychiatric clinic against his will .
action
Sawyer Valentini moved from Boston to Pennsylvania , where she started working as a data analyst for a bank in a new city. After work, she makes one-night stands with men using dating apps. When she takes someone from a bar into her apartment at such a meeting, she shrinks from physical intimacy. It turns out that Sawyer was stalked for two years by a stalker named David Strine, whom she banned from contact. As a result of what happened, she suffered a neurotic disorder and thinks she can still see her tormentor.
Sawyer hopes to get better after seeing a psychiatrist at the Highland Creek Behavioral Therapy Clinic. After an initial meeting, in which she also gave information about having previously thought of suicide, she signed a document without knowledge that allowed the clinic to admit her for observation for 24 hours. Sawyer calls the police, but she is held against her will in a shared room with nine other patients. When she thinks she recognizes her former stalker in a male nurse, she beats him and is then put on medication. As a result, Sawyer has to remain in the clinic for seven more days for observation and is threatened with solitary confinement. She befriends Nate, a drug patient of the same age, who secretly lets her use his cell phone. Sawyer repeatedly comes into conflict with her bedmate Violet. Her mother Angela, who has rushed over from Boston, cannot do anything for her despite dealing with the authorities and contacting a lawyer.
It turns out that the identity of night shift nurse George Shaw was actually Sawyer's former stalker David. He kills Sawyer's mother and Nate, who was actually an undercover journalist who wanted to uncover the criminal machinations of the hospital management. David manages to have Sawyer transferred to solitary confinement. There he hopes to win her love. Instead, the desperate Sawyer suggests that he try intimacy with Violet to be sure of his deal with Sawyer. David follows her advice and puts the drugged Violet into the solitary cell. Through a trick, Sawyer gets hold of Violet's knife, which is always carried on his body, injures David and escapes from the cell. Angry David kills Violet and catches up with Sawyer. He knocks them down and hides them in the trunk of his car. While driving through the woods, Sawyer discovers her mother's body next to him. With the emergency release, she manages to open the trunk and jump out of the moving car. David notices her attempt to escape, overpowers her again and injures her ankle with a hammer. When David puts her in the woods, lies down next to her and again confesses his love for her, Sawyer comes to, stabs him in the eye with the pendant from her mother's necklace and cuts his throat with Violet's knife. By accidentally finding the corpse of the nurse or a secret notebook from Nate, the police also find out about David and the criminal machinations of the clinic management.
Six months later, Sawyer was eating with a work colleague in a restaurant when she thought she recognized her alleged tormentor at a table. She sets off with a knife to the person who does not turn out to be David. Sawyer then flees the restaurant in a panic.
production
Directed by Steven Soderbergh . In a conversation with Deutschlandfunk , he said that stories in which an individual tries to overthrow a system that is suppressing him fundamentally interested him.
The director shot mostly in secret and also acted as a cameraman. Instead of professional film cameras , the film was shot entirely with an iPhone . According to him, the reason for this rather unusual decision was simply curiosity. Soderbergh was already known in the past for relying on innovative camera technology. He mostly used digital cameras from Red, but these were high-quality products that were specially developed for professional filmmakers.
Actually, Soderbergh had wanted to bring the film out via a streaming service, but was then so convinced of the image quality of the iPhone that he wanted to bring it to the screen. Soderbergh says that he thus rendered independent of film studios and a form I created from the film business, in which it retains control of the marketing campaign: "When a film comes from me to the movies, then the system I for Logan Lucky established have. Let's see how long the Fox has liked that she doesn't have the US rights to my films. I approached it very opportunistically. "
One limitation of working with the iPhone was that the camera is very, very sensitive to vibrations, according to Soderbergh. Panning in different directions, such as from the camera carriage, would become a problem, which can be solved by building a small cage around the smartphone and then mounting it on a tripod. Sometimes he also turned settings with a smartphone holder and while sitting in a wheelchair. In an interview with Spiegel Online , his leading actress Claire Foy said about the effects on her work : “Everything went faster, the waiting times were shorter because not so much had to be set up and set up all the time. I found that really pleasant because it eliminated a lot of things that in conventional productions can lead to a little more distance between me as an actress and my game. Apart from that, a camera is a camera, no matter how big or small it is. "
The film premiered on February 21, 2018 as part of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival and was released in US cinemas and in UK cinemas on March 23, 2018. A start in Germany took place on March 29, 2018.
reception
Age rating
In Germany the film is FSK 16 . The statement of reasons for the release states: “The film is characterized by an oppressive atmosphere and contains several, sometimes drastic, scenes of violence. However, these do not seem sensational and are not played out for their own sake. Young people from the age of 16 are able to understand the events as part of the nightmarish thriller story and to maintain a reasonable distance. "
Reviews and grossing results
The film received rather positive ratings from 80 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics .
Martin Schwickert of the Augsburger Allgemeine says that based on classics like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Steven Soderbergh is creating an atmospherically dense thriller that focuses on the well-capitalized health system and makes the subject of sexual violence perceptible in an oppressive way. Thus, Unsane is docking closely with the current “ #MeToo ” debate, says Schwickert. Peter Travers from Rolling Stone also speaks of Soderbergh's B-Movie of a thriller for the “#MeToo” generation: “ Claire Foy 's image-shattering performance is something you don't want to miss. Prepare to be wowed. "
Sarah Kugler from Tagesspiegel explains that, after Side Effects from 2013 in the film , Soderbergh again deals with the social effects of the health system. He could only have focused on Sawyer's story, because their vacillations between appearance and reality, playing with truth and madness would have been enough for an exciting psychological thriller, but that apparently wasn't enough for the scriptwriters Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer , so Kugler, why They also added a story about an investigative journalist who wants to uncover insurance fraud: "As a psychological thriller plus a revelatory story, Unsane seems too intentional, the moral club too big." Most annoying, however, is that the director resolves the question about Sawyer's state of mind far too early , says Kugler, because, unlike in Side Effects , in which the characters remain obscure until the end, it quickly becomes clear what the meek groom George , played by Joshua Leonard , is up to. Soderbergh directs his gaze on him too obviously: “The temporary change of perspective doesn't take away the tension from the film. Because there is still the power play between the two. "
About the feeling of not being able to escape the horror, says Sascha Westphal in the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , this is reinforced by the rough aesthetics of the iPhone camera: “The constant tension is reflected in every gesture and every look from Claire Foy. She is constantly electrified and armored with an aggressiveness that scares you, but also pulls Sawyer's spell. [...] Sawyer Valentini slides deeper and deeper into madness. There is no hold for them, so ultimately the viewer also loses all security. As a result, the socially critical subtext of the film, which for a long time appears to be a kind of lifeline, has to dissolve more and more. ”According to Westphal, it is precisely through the breaks within the film and the excesses that Soderbergh succeeds in congenially depicting the current reality in the United States continues, and in the end there are no longer any certainties in Donald Trump's America.
The film's worldwide revenue from theatrical screenings has so far been $ 14.3 million. The film recorded 114,590 visitors in Germany.
Awards
- Award in the Best Thriller category
Web links
- Unsane - delivered in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website for the film by Bleeckerstreet Media (English)
- Unsane - Delivered on Berlinale.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Unsane - Delivered . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 177327 / K).
- ↑ a b c d Steven Soderbergh in conversation with Sigrid Fischer: "Unsane": Soderbergh raves about the image quality of his mobile phone film In: Deutschlandfunk, March 27, 2018.
- ↑ Director Steven Soderbergh secretly shot new thriller 'Unsane' entirely on Apple's iPhone. In: AppleInsider. Retrieved January 23, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ https://www.trendsderzukunft.de/unsane-ausgel Bäumen-warum-dieser-film-komplett-mit-dem-iphone-gedrehen-wurde /
- ↑ Claire Foy in an interview with Patrick Heidmann on the gender pay gap: "Women who make demands were considered bitchy" In: Spiegel Online, March 27, 2018.
- ↑ Press releases for the 68th Berlinale competition ( memento of the original from January 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: berlinale.de, January 22, 2018.
- ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
- ^ Reason for release for Unsane - Delivered In: Voluntary self-control of the film industry. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
- ↑ Unsane In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
- ↑ Martin Schwickert: Filmed on the iPhone and shown at the Berlinale In: Augsburger Allgemeine, February 22, 2018.
- ↑ https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/peter-travers-unsane-movie-review-w518021
- ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/steven-soderberghs-unsane-eine-frau- between- wahrheit-und-wahnsinn/ 20988866.html
- ^ Sascha Westphal: "Unsane - Delivered" is a psycho trip full of twists and turns. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, March 26, 2018.
- ↑ Unsane In: boxofficemojo.com, September 24, 2018.
- ↑ Top 100 Germany 2018. In: insidekino.com. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
- ↑ Kimberly Nordyke: Golden Trailer Awards: 'Black Panther,' Netflix Top Winners List. In: The Hollywood Reporter, May 31, 2018.