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Entrusted (2003)
Feels like a first year student film
The human behavior depicted in this movie I found very bad. For example, when Gregor Lämmle gets attracted by David Quatermain during interrogation, a German soldier tries to scare David. The soldier point his gun to David, but does not use any militaristic commandments or other intimidating stuff. He is silent and looks like he has to go to the toilet.
Another example is when a lady wants to kill a German officer. The officer gives no reaction at all. The director probably told the German officer that he is not scared and doesn't believe a woman is capable to shoot. At least you would expect a very dry reaction, with at least one line of dialog. But the officer stays natural (and the bullet does not seem to hurt that much).
There are many examples like the ones above. That's why the movie feels like a bad student film.
The dialog was written badly for a couple of times. The music did distracted me a couple of times a lot from the story (sudden weird tones in a score did not match). But then again, I did not feel the suspense in most scenes either. The storyline of the 2-hour version I saw had some holes in it (what happened to Henri Lafont? Who is the man with the sniper rifle?)
The story itself could have been promising (so, I did not turn the movie off).
The boy was a good actor, so that's way I give the movie 3/10
LelleBelle (2010)
The taste of this movie was bitter, not sweet.
The beginning of the story is promising. A sensitive 19-year old plays a sensitive instrument. She is shy and has difficulties to express her (sexual) feelings, also through music. That's why her music is numb. When she discovers that erotic stimulation benefits her play, she improves the sound she produces through the violin.
So, I interpreted the violin as a symbol of the body of the young woman. I interpreted the music as the expression of passion a human being can have for life: friendship, dreams, sex and love. Therefore I interpreted the improvement she made in her music, as a learning process in her life to catch her dreams.
That's why I expected that passion shout have been the key in the story. Sometimes it does. But most of the time the main actress doesn't show much energy when you would expect it. Maybe that's why I didn't feel the love connection between boy and girl. Maybe that's why I did not believe the importance of the dream the girl has. The friendship between girl and girl was also numb. The sex was very expressive and very naked (pure human) in a good way, but is never really passionate. The music is important in the movie, but lacks the satisfying emphasis it deserves.
Because the (average) story did not evolve the same way the sound of the violin did, but because I liked the idea of what the movie could have been, I give it a 5/10.