Under Control (2008)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Under control |
| Original title | Surveillance |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | approx. 93 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 18 JMK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jennifer Chambers Lynch |
| script | Kent Harper , Jennifer Chambers Lynch |
| production |
Kent Harper , David Lynch , Marco Mehlitz , David Michaels , Stephen Onda |
| music | Todd Bryanton |
| camera | Peter Wunstorf |
| cut | Daryl K. Davis |
| occupation | |
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Under control (original title: Surveillance ) is an American thriller from 2008 . Directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch , who also co-wrote the script.
action
During the intro, the film begins with short sequences of scenes, with a brutal murder of several people by masked perpetrators in one night and a subsequent hunt for a woman.
One morning FBI agent Sam Hallaway and his partner Elizabeth Anderson arrive at a police station in the middle of the prairie in (fictional) Vellacott County. They want to record the statements of three eyewitnesses who have witnessed several brutal murders.
The disturbed witnesses are the wounded police officer Jack Bennett, the drug addict prostitute Bobbi Prescott and the eight-year-old traumatized Stephanie. The interview takes place simultaneously in three different rooms and is carried out by the local police officers and Agent Anderson. The typist Janet is also present at the station. Agent Hallaway can, using a system he has brought with him, view all the rooms simultaneously via video and ask questions to the witnesses via microphone, which he does again and again while recording the statements. During the questioning, the viewer experiences in flashbacks the actual course of the events reported by the witnesses from the point of view of the different witnesses, while one hears the obviously changed statements of the witnesses.
The sheriff interrogates Bennett, who reports on a delivery truck whose driver tells them that he discovered a murder scene while delivering groceries, which Bennett and his partner then go to. Bobbi and her boyfriend buy drugs, the dealer dies, and they steal any drugs they can find, drive away and use those drugs while driving. During a stop they meet Stephanie and her family, consisting of stepfather, mother and brother, while Bobbi sees a news clip on a portable TV that reports on the scene of the murder. Two unknown perpetrators are reported to have committed a series of murders and are wanted. The report also reports a woman missing in this context, who is obviously the woman from the murder seen in the intro.
Bennett and his partner shoot the tire of a blue car and then start terrorizing the occupants. Stephanie and her family drive past a white van that stops at the same, now abandoned, blue car. Stephanie briefly sees a blood stain and broken windows on the blue car. Shortly afterwards, Bobbi and her boyfriend drive past the two stopped cars.
Stephanie's family is stopped by Bennett and his partner when they are shot in the rear tire of their car. Bobbie and her boyfriend drive by by accident and bring their car to a halt just behind the stranded family car. Now the two police officers join them and terrorize the occupants of both cars with sadistic mind games. Stephanie tells the police what she saw, whereupon they stop playing and drive back to the two cars. During this trip you can briefly see a white delivery van driving by on the opposite side. This delivery truck overtakes the two broken down cars and is watched by Stephanie. The two cops arrive at the blue car and see the blood and the broken windows, shortly afterwards they remember the white van on the opposite side and they drive back to the other two cars.
The white van comes back in the meantime, hits both cars and kills Bobbi's friend and Stephanie's stepfather. The two policemen arrive and examine the van, the man from the blue car sits on the driver's side, but completely motionless, with his hands tied to the steering wheel, on the passenger side sits a tied person with a scarf over his head. Bennet, who in the meantime is trying to get into the van through the windshield, is now being shot - obviously through the man who is tied to the steering wheel. Bennet's partner goes to the back and tries to open the van. Meanwhile, Bobbi manages to open the obviously jammed passenger door, whereupon the handcuffed person she thinks is the kidnapped woman falls on her, leading to the exclamation “It's not her !" leads. There is a shootout in the course of which Stephanie's mother and brother, as well as Bennett's partner, are killed - the exact course of events remains unclear for the time being. Meanwhile, Stephanie and Bobbi hide in the back seat of the police car.
Meanwhile, the questioning is interrupted by a phone call. The police station was reported that three more bodies were found in a motel. Agent Anderson decides to drive the two deputies to the motel, while her partner Hallaway stays behind with the suspects and the police chief. Those who stayed behind, with the exception of Janet, gather in a room to be interrogated by Agent Hallaway. Stephanie takes an opportunity to briefly whisper something to Agent Hallaway.
In Agent Anderson's car, one of the deputies looks at a series of photos that show the two FBI agents very familiar. Hallaway, meanwhile, begins solving the case in the interrogation room, using flashbacks that show what really happened.
The tied up woman, wrapped in a scarf, stands up, and it becomes apparent that she is one of the two masked murderers. Hallaway is now threatening all witnesses and the sheriff with a gun.
In Anderson's car, the deputy looking at the photos discovers one that shows Anderson and Hallaway while they are playing around with a dead woman. Almost immediately afterwards, he and the second deputy are shot by Anderson.
In the interrogation room, Hallaway accuses Bennett of killing his own partner and then kills the sheriff with a gun. It becomes clear that the masked man put the scarf on Bennett's partner and then forced him to open the back of the van, whereupon Bennett shot him and killed him. After that, the masked man, who is the obviously psychopathic Hallaway, killed Stephanie's mother and brother.
Anderson comes back to the station and finds Janet with her throat cut. She plays sexually stimulating games with Bobbi in which Bobbi is strangled. Bennett is shot shortly afterwards. Both leave the station while a call comes in identifying the three dead from the motel as the missing woman and two FBI agents.
Anderson and Hallaway drive on with a car, Anderson sees Stephanie standing on the roadside on the way, who was obviously allowed to walk by Hallaway. Hallaway cites the reason that Stephanie deserved a reward, because what she whispered to Hallaway at the station were the words, "I know who you are". Hallaway says: "Let's let them go!" Anderson to Hallaway: "This is by far the most romantic thing you've ever done."
backgrounds
The film was in Regina ( Saskatchewan turned); filming began in April 2007. Its production amounted to an estimated 3.5 million US dollars . The world premiere took place on February 8, 2008 at the European Film Market . On May 21, 2008 the film was shown at the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival (out of competition). The German theatrical release was on July 17, 2008.
Reviews
Renée Wieder wrote on TV Digital that Lynch's deep black soul trip was a bizarre killer story with two brilliantly presented leading actors, full of caustic humor and artful flashbacks.
The lexicon of the international film judged: “Dark thriller, whose ambitious narrative approach ensures atmospherically dense sequences, although this ultimately stands in the way of its classic" Whodunit "plot. The film, which is convincing in terms of performance, ultimately sacrifices its oppressive atmosphere to a brutal finale with few surprises. "
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Web links
- Control in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Control atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for Under Control . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Filming locations for Under Control . The Internet Movie Database . Retrieved February 13, 2010.
- ↑ Pamela McClintock: Lynch to direct 'Surveillance' ( English ) Variety . April 19, 2007. Archived from the original on December 3, 2009. 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. Retrieved February 13, 2010.
- ↑ Budget and income under control . The Internet Movie Database . Retrieved February 13, 2010.
- ↑ Start dates for Under Control . The Internet Movie Database . Retrieved February 13, 2010.
- ↑ Under Control in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on February 13, 2010.
