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Daniel Brühl, Anabelle Lachatte, Patrick Joswig, Katharina Schüttler, Ilse Strambowski ...( see more  see more... ) , Michael Schütz

In this film you really get an insight into the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic (played brilliantly by Daniel Brühl, because it is so well researched that it appears 100% authentic (the director stud...( read more  read more... )ied neurology).

The film does not become a clinical case study, but tells an interesting story about a young man, Lukas, who moves to Cologne to share a flat with his older sister Kati (Anabelle Lachatte) and her friend Jochen. At first everything is going fine; they spend their days full of recreation, but when he abandons his university studies on the first day just because he can't find the enrollment office ,and when a date with a girl goes a little bit wrong the audience begins to suspect that there's something wrong with Lukas. After the schizophrenia first breaks out, the movie becomes a very intense experience (similar to the films of Darren Aronofsky or even to "Das Experiment"), because on the sound track you hear the same cacophony of voices that begin to torment Lukas.

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Unrated, 109 min

Directed by: Hans Weingartner

Release Date: January 31, 2002

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  • bbliumis
    February 1, 2009
    bbliumis
    when i met daniel bruhl on the festival, i told him how much i enjoyed this film and it would be great if we could work together one day.

    very soon he became a star....

    weird , trippy film
  • soulxside
    January 21, 2008
    soulxside
    This film starts out pretty slow and a bit of a chaotic mess. We really don't get to learn much about our characters before things take a steep turn. Perhaps this makes it more real... we're kept at a distance from their lives, but we're allowed inside so intimately into the main...( read more) character's head. We get to listen in on the voices in his head.

    My father had a long battle with cancer for several years and was on morphine for many of those... morphine makes you hallucinate if you take enough - and he took more than enough. He started hearing voices in his head. At first, I almost believed his neighbors were trying to kill him and plotting against him. I helped him move house about 3 times - after the first move, when he was still hearing voices trying to kill him - I realized he was going nuts. He would hear them when I was around and tried to get me to hear them. He also tried to get me to write stuff down so they wouldn't hear me and respond or comment. He kidnapped me at gunpoint as well... it was pretty insane. Apart from that, I dated a girl during college who was schitzophrenic and bipolar... I hadn't realized she was hearing voices in her head, but this certainly explains a lot.

    The acting in this film is pretty good... seems pretty natural even though a bit amateurish at times. Danny Bruhl reminds me of a young Ewan McGregor or Ethan Hawke (or both). The way it's filmed adds to the realism because it appears to have been shot digitally and handheld. Outdoor shots are vibrant and perhaps blue cranked while indoor shots are very orange - they appear to have used mostly available lighting. It also seems to have been filmed beginning to end and you can tell by the acting that they start to get more and more into their roles.

    My problem with the film is that it's just fucking depressing... there's no real merit to it aside from having the experience of watching someone go through that. You're never really given much reason to like these characters enough to care. It's not too difficult to watch, just a bit uncomfortable. If you like watching something that's a bit of a downer, then I'm sure you'll enjoy this.

    I suppose another problem I had with the film was how he became a paranoid schizophrenic... it was so abrupt. They seem to suggest that a dose of shrooms would do it - anyone who has taken shrooms would probably find that absurd. But I wouldn't know. Besides that possible reason, they give no other except that Lukas acts a bit strange in the beginning before the voices show up. Then again - my father went nuts like this after taking morphine for a long time... so perhaps this is all pretty authentic. That doesn't make it something I'd recommend seeing. The description of the plot says this doesn't become a clinical case study - but perhaps that's all this is good for. There's no message that I can find... it just shows people what it's like being and living with someone who is a paranoid schizophrenic.

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