"Nicht weit von mir" tells the story of a young woman, struggeling with life, as she is repeatedly disappointed by her parents and her boring job and only finds peace in the foreign worlds of novels. One day, she picks up a book about lucid dreaming and begins to train harder and harder, creating her own little world but letting her lose grip of the real life, increasingly.
You can see at first glance that this is a very sophisticated approach, where a lot of thoughts have been invested in the course of making the film. That's nice, on the one hand, because it makes this movie something special, occasionally, though, the producers try a bit too hard to melt the two worlds, as for example in the ending sequence, that ruined more than it achieved for me. The acting is quite indifferent, with some as the female lead doing a great job while some of the others are clearly not experienced tv actors. I think that there would have been potential for a lot more in the movie with a bit more tragedy and less art.
All in all this is still very much worth a watch because it is not your usual blockbuster movie. One can discuss how logical the plot is and if it delivers a realistic setting, but if you are able to just accept what happens you find a clever and soft film, that touches important individual questions of identity and vision.
You can see at first glance that this is a very sophisticated approach, where a lot of thoughts have been invested in the course of making the film. That's nice, on the one hand, because it makes this movie something special, occasionally, though, the producers try a bit too hard to melt the two worlds, as for example in the ending sequence, that ruined more than it achieved for me. The acting is quite indifferent, with some as the female lead doing a great job while some of the others are clearly not experienced tv actors. I think that there would have been potential for a lot more in the movie with a bit more tragedy and less art.
All in all this is still very much worth a watch because it is not your usual blockbuster movie. One can discuss how logical the plot is and if it delivers a realistic setting, but if you are able to just accept what happens you find a clever and soft film, that touches important individual questions of identity and vision.
