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Neues vom Wixxer (2007)
Nonsense, which makes us laugh
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To my mind the second episode "Neues vom Wixxer" was better than his forerunner "Der Wixxer". One can see that much love has been put in it with a great sense of humor. Some of the gags are just too absurd that I burst out laughing in surprise. Besides, there were some half hearted jokes that must not be forgotten.
My absolute favourite scene is a chase between Bastian Pastewka and the Wixxer in a stair lift. Wonderful, unique and virtually genial are the karaoke performances by Christoph Maria Herbst personating Alfons Hatler. Bewildering and irritating at the same time is the idea of showing the movie partly in colour and partly in black and white. This trick even turns out to a surprising closing scene.
Though the movie is formed by a strict dramaturgy, the plot is quite secondary. Christiane Paul has obviously her problems with this fact and seems to suffer a little, though she looks really pretty. To my mind, the ending of the story is far-fetched and lacks of logic. But this is not the point. Important is that "Neues vom Wixxer" is a movie that brings joy and makes us laugh. The movie is very good to recommend for people who are into sarcastic nonsense.
One Way (2006)
Til Schweigers movie "One Way" let you feel the pain
My husband and I saw "One Way", the new movie of the German actor Til Schweiger. There were no coughing, no feet-stamping and no murmurs to hear during the whole movie. Even at the end the silence continued. Than my husband broke it, saying: "Man, what a good movie was that!" The story and the pictures are very intense. They catch the viewer's whole attention which you can hardly escape.
The topic of the movie is rape. It's about guilt and atonement.About law, morals and justice.
In a today's criticism I read the sentence: "Sometimes it is the start of a movie that gives rise to doubts. In "One Way", the movie of the Swiss Reto Salimbini, a girl is followed by several men and raped brutally, as a black figure wearing a uniform (Michael Clareke Duncan) appears and butchers the wrongdoers with a machine gun. The plot changes from this revenge-fantasy to the New Yorker world of the publicity expert Eddie (Til Schweiger)
" Now I ask myself seriously: What is so disconcerting about the imagination that the victim imagines the death of the men that are raping her? Isn't it even understandable somehow? The visualization in the movie makes the fantasy visible for the viewers - and uncomfortable. "One Way" is consequently shown from the rape victim's point of view, which is definitely not a daily mean.
In an other criticism it is said that the rape scenes are shown very drastically. So I watched them critically. My judgment: I have seen more drastically rape scenes in movies and on television before. But what is really hard to the spectator is - during the whole rape the camera is filming the victim's face. Vivid, oppressive and frightening.
The pictures do not allow any evading and phrases like "
somehow she wanted that, too
" or "It's not as bad as it seems
" are absolutely wrong and out of place. The victim is injured with great physical and psychological pain.
Is it a woman allowed to take revenge if she has been raped, humiliated and emotionally killed? If she can't trust her pretending best friend or in justice? In "One Way" two raped and humiliated women experience emotional justice in the end and an initial slime ball develops into a better man. This is more than reality can (unfortunatly) sometimes offer.
Fill the movie theaters and watch it! It's worth it! Marte Cormann, www.kinoplausch.de