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Mitten ins Herz (1983)
fresh and poetic study of emotional distance
When this movie came out it was clearly in the vein then being pursued year after year by Fassbinder, but I liked this better, I'd say because Dorrie's feel for the characters was more immediate and empathic, as opposed to Fassbinder's arch feeling. The plot premise is simple, extreme and, as others on this forum have said, not very believable. Bright blue hair, of course, has become commonplace by now, but the dentist's job offer has not. A lot of recent Hollywood product has over-the-top, unbelievable plot premises, and it has become utterly tedious. Sit-coms and sit-melodramas. I felt different about Dorrie's premise, perhaps because it seemed no one else would have ever come up with this one, or because she used it for a poetic exploration of the human predicament. More like Theater of the Absurd than like Hollywood. Maybe being young then helped me to experience it as fresh. But to find out the answer to that one, I'd have to see it again today. Please? Can this be possible?