Zeitgeist (2014)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | #Zeitgeist |
| Original title | Men, Women & Children |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 116 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Jason Reitman |
| script | Jason Reitman Erin Cressida Wilson |
| production | Jason Reitman Helen Estabrook |
| music | Stephen "Bibio" Wilkinson |
| camera | Eric Steelberg |
| cut | Dana E. Glauberman |
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#Zeitgeist (German subtitles : Of digital closeness and analog alienation ; original title: Men, Women & Children ) is an American film melodrama from 2014 . It explores how the relationships and lives of teenagers and adults have changed through the Internet and social media. Director Jason Reitman wrote the screenplay together with Erin Cressida Wilson based on a novel by Chad Kultgen .
action
The film begins with a brief introduction to the Voyager spacecraft , which is shown as it passes the gas giants of our solar system. As she is about to leave the edge of the solar system, the plot pans to Donald Truby, who is trying to watch porn on his computer. Donald and Helen Truby are a married couple who have become sexually dissatisfied. Her 15-year-old son Chris is also sexually dissatisfied, he has been watching porn since he was 10, although his preferences have become more and more extreme, so that he is no longer aroused by a "normal" presentation. Tim Mooney is a high school student and football star that his father Kent is very proud of. After his mother moved out and his parents divorced, Tim became depressed. He leaves the football team and begins to play online role-playing MMORPGs , in particular Guild Wars . He apparently deletes the many hate messages that he receives as a result of his resignation from the football team. He is comforted by the thought that human life is meaningless in the context of the universe when one relates to Carl Sagan's reflections on the “ pale blue dot ”, the little blue dot - the earth.
Hanna is a high school girl who wants to be famous one day. Her mother, Joan, helps her maintain an online modeling site where she posts inappropriate images of herself in lingerie to paying subscribers who can request personalized photo sessions. Brandy Beltmeyer is one of Tim's classmates whose online content is constantly monitored in front of her overprotective mother, Patricia. Unbeknownst to her mother, Brandy has a separate SIM card that she changes when she's not at home and a secret Tumblr account that she uses to express herself. Allison Doss is a friend of Hannah's who feels sexually inexperienced compared to Hannah and has a crush on a boy named Brandon Lender. To make herself more attractive, she is turning to diet items online to drastically lose weight.
After seeing a television commercial for the Ashley Madison website one evening , Helen creates an account and begins an affair. At the same time, Donald begins to visit escorts on a regular basis after trying unsuccessfully to initiate sex with Helen for almost two months. Hannah is auditioning for an acting competition that will bring her a television role. Chris begins a relationship with Hannah during a school project together. He tries to create sexual arousal in himself without pornography by exchanging sexual text messages with her and looking at her photos on her website. Meanwhile, Tim and Brandy begin a relationship, but when Brandy is at home, her mother Patricia intercepts messages for her. While Tim was playing with his friends online, he saw a Facebook post from his mother showing pictures of how she happily got engaged again. When he, visibly shaken, shares the info with his friends, they start to write indecent comments, which he ignores. Brandy later tells Tim about her Tumblr account, and that it is not monitored by her mother. Tim confesses to her that it makes him feel like everything is not pointless.
Kent, feeling estranged from his son, attends an online awareness meeting for Patricia to better understand Tim's interest in video games. Joan also attends this meeting to learn more about the legal options for her daughter's website. Both of them amuse themselves at Patricia's apparent paranoia and begin a relationship. When Allison is at a friend's house, she meets Brandon, who is also visiting, and the two of them have sex unnoticed by the others. He's treating the whole matter as casual and clearly not interested in a relationship. Tim is bullied again while he is sitting with Brandy in the school canteen because he left the football team hanging by leaving and the team may miss the championship. The argument escalates when Brandy is hit by a deliberately thrown ball and Tim goes for the thrower. He then has to go to the school psychologist who prescribes antidepressants .
Allison collapses during school and is rushed to the hospital where she learns she had an ectopic pregnancy and a miscarriage due to malnutrition , both facts that shock her parents. When she informs Brandon, his only worry is that people might discover they were having sex. Hannah and Chris try to have sex, but Chris does not get aroused and they abandon the attempt. When Chris learns that Hannah is telling everyone that they have had sex, he is uncomfortable and he confronts her and wants to know what is going on between them. She lets him understand that she only saw him as her "best shot" to lose her virginity, and since nothing else would be that he was a weird guy with serious sexual difficulties that she didn't want to have anything to do with. Joan learns that the contest disqualified Hannah for the website even though her audition was one of the best. She tells Kent about the website and is upset that her daughter's chance has been ruined because of poor parenting. Kent, shocked by the news, says they rushed their relationship and better take it a little slower. Hannah is notified by her mother that she has been disqualified from the competition. She tells her that she deleted the website and that it was wrong to support her in this way. Hannah is angry, but Joan insists on her responsibility as a mother. Donald accidentally discovers Helen's Ashley Madison account and goes to the same bar where she meets their affair. When she sees that she has been caught, she tries to talk to Donald about it the next morning. He lets her understand that they both made mistakes and thinks it's better if you just ignore what you've done.
Patricia discovers Brandy's tumbler page. After scrolling through her conversations with Tim and seeing his own page of video game content, overwhelmed by fear, she changes all of her daughter's passwords. Kent reads and confronts all of the indecent comments in Tim's game. In the following argument he makes it clear to Tim that his mother not only left Kent but both of them. Kent blocks the credit card and deletes his son's gaming account and demands that Tim play football again next year , which leads to the fact that he collapses. When Tim tries to ask Brandy for assistance, Patricia poses as Brandy, claiming she is bored with him and that if he continues to text her, she will block him. Devastated, Tim overdoses on his antidepressants. Brandy, frantic about her mother's behavior, rushes to Tim's house, where she and Kent find him on the floor. You call the ambulance and his life can be saved in the emergency room. While searching for Brandy, Patricia finds her in the hospital and finds out what happened. She is deeply affected after realizing that her actions nearly brought Tim's death. She returns home and disables the surveillance device she used to monitor Brandy. After reconciling with Tim and realizing how difficult it is to be a single parent, Kent approaches Joan again.
The narrator closes the film by quoting Blue Dot in Space by Carl Sagan as Voyager 1 drifts through space.
publication
The film premiered on September 6, 2014 at the Toronto International Film Festival . It was shown in select theaters in the United States from October 1, and then nationwide from October 17, 2014. The German film launch was on December 11, 2014.
background
The mission of the Voyager 1 space probe and its end, which was heralded by the Pale Blue Dot series of images , provided a motif that the film refers to again and again . The text quoted at the end comes from the astronomer Carl Sagan .
synchronization
The synchronization of the film was done by Berliner Synchron GmbH . The dialogue book wrote Sven Hasper and dialogue director led Robin Kahn Meyer .
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Helen Truby | Rosemarie DeWitt | Gundi Eberhard |
| Patricia Beltmeyer | Jennifer Garner | Dorette Hugo |
| Joan Clint | Judy Greer | Bianca Krahl |
| Kent Mooney | Dean Norris | Lutz Schnell |
| Don Truby | Adam Sandler | Dietmar miracle |
| Tim Mooney | Ansel Elgort | Patrick Roche |
| Brandy Beltmeyer | Kaitlyn Dever | Friedel Morgenstern |
| Mr. Doss | JK Simmons | Jan Spitzer |
| Ray Beltmeyer | Jason Douglas | Tobias Kluckert |
| Angelique | Shane Lynch | Nicole Hannak |
| Secretluvur | Dennis Haysbert | Tilo Schmitz |
| Shrink | Phil LaMarr | Frank Schröder |
| Hannah Clint | Olivia Crocicchia | Josephine Schmidt |
| Allison Doss | Elena Kampouris | Emily Gilbert |
| Brandon Lender | Will Peltz | Julian Tennstedt |
| Danny Vance | Timothée Chalamet | Fabian Kluckert |
| narrative voice | Emma Thompson (voice) | Monica Bielenstein |
reception
Men, Women & Children received mostly mixed to negative reviews. At Metacritic , the film received a Metascore of 38 based on 36 reviews; At Rotten Tomatoes , 33 percent of the 135 reviews evaluated are positive.
In the Tagesspiegel , Jan Schulz-Ojala initially briefly outlined the content of the film: "From helicopter mothers and Youporn-addicted football stars: Jason Reitman draws a Texan moral picture of the brave new network-controlled world in '#Zeitgeist'". He concludes his criticism with the conclusion : "What a shame: Reitman in particular would have been expected to deal with this relevant topic with such a mass effect as it was worth considering, and he of all people gave it away roughly."
Hanns-Georg Rodek , film editor of the world , answers the question of whether 15 years after the “turning point” of the digital revolution, the film adequately portrays digital reality, because it fails “before all challenges: body modifications, the compulsion to consume, the longing for celebration, the Pressure from parents and friends, changes in communication channels - Reitman touches on everything and reflects on nothing. Instead, he presents the most old-fashioned solutions that we even in Hollywood believed to have been decommissioned. "
Martin Schwickert's review in epd Film is positive with four out of five possible stars. The film moves "confidently through the no man's land of incomprehension between the generations" , whereby "the longings and frustrations of sons and daughters are not so different from those of fathers and mothers" . The film also largely compensates for the limits of character development due to the multi-strand plot “through the extremely focused acting performances” .
Web links
- Website for the film
- Zeitgeist in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Zeitgeist atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Zeitgeist atMetacritic(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Early Buzz: Jason Reitman's Men, Women & Children TIFF 2014 at slashfilm.com, accessed September 18, 2014
- ^ Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan , accessed December 29, 2014
- ↑ Zeitgeist. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on January 26, 2020 .
- ^ Men, Women & Children. In: metacritic.com. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
- ^ Men, Women & Children (2014). In: rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Jan Schulz-Ojala: Women who stare at displays. In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 11, 2014, accessed January 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek: This scary new digital stuff, yuck! In: The world . December 12, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed January 25, 2019]).
- ↑ Martin Schwickert: Critique of #Zeitgeist. In: epd film. November 14, 2014, accessed April 27, 2015 .