Review of Love in Thoughts

Why are films made about people with no redeeming characteristics which then expect us to care about what happens to them? It's 1929 and young adult friends Paul and Guenter decide to spend the weekend at Guenter's summer house outside Berlin while his parents are away. They are privately educated and faux intellectuals. Friday: They arrive at the summer house. Paul meets Guenter's manipulative sister Hilde and immediately falls in love. Hilde has sex with Hans a working class guy. Hans has sex with Guenter who is in love with Hans. Saturday: Guenter and Hilde have a big party that goes on all night where all sorts of daft stuff happens. Sunday: The four main players go back to Guenters' Berlin apartment. Hans and Guenter spend time together, then Hans spends the night with Hilde. Guenter and Paul decide to form a suicide club where they kill those who destroyed their joy and then shoot themselves. In the cold light of Monday morning Paul changes his mind. Guenter shoots Hans then himself. I don't know how that description made the plot sound, but its presentation is as pretentious soul gazing. Paul and Guenter constantly emote a load of rubbish whilst being miserable (think Neil in the Young Ones). The only person who seemed capable of enjoying himself was the working class, therefore immoral in ignorance, Hans. Their most profound insight, that true joy can only be experienced once and then the rest of your life is spent being punished for it, is profoundly ignorant, spurious pseudo religious based mumbo jumbo. You know the film's a lost cause when the 'DJ' at the party, set in 1929, starts 'scratching' with an old 78 gramophone record.