In Bruges

In Bruges

 

Bruges is an old city, one of the best achieved cities from the middle ages. It´s beautiful but a bit dismal, it´s foggy and a bit like a dream. Like the movie. Sometimes you have the feeling to dive in some sureal dimension and on the other hand there are these touching moments when it hits you from the back. For example when Rey (Colin Farell) lays in his bed, his face is not moving and then he starts crying without a sound or a change of expression and somehow you realise how deep his despair must be. Or when Rey and his friend Ken (Brendan Gleeson) sit on the bench talking about nonsense and suddenly, out of nothing, Rey can´t stand it anymore, being guilty of the murder of a child, saying that it will only end when he ends. Within the helplessness of the the main actor there are these very funny scences, that fit so good without leaving the tragic focus of the story. Tragedy and humor are closly and sensitive interlocked. On the other hand there are very drastic and brutal situations, we see the killings, the open wounds, the blood. Bruges is a stage for characters that have a story to tell, not in words but in gestures and looks. Harry (Ralph Fienesse), the agressive boss of Rey an Ken who is highly convinced by his principles and can´t say one sentence without swearing. The "good" girl that is a drug dealer, the gnome that wants to be characterized as a dwarf. The black jokes are trailed through the whole movie, not one precarios topic is left out. There are jokes about black and white people, about gnomes, about homesexuals, about fat people,...and so on. Sometimes I was laughing just because I was schocked. But even when it is loud somehow there stays this sad silence in the back.