Sieben Tage Sonntag

(Sunday seven days long)

Me and my friend decided, despite the bad surprises on many Tuesday, to go to the Sneak. And we were both surprised to have such luck, even though most other people in the cinema that I could hear, weren´t as convinced as we were. It´s a true story by the way. When the film ended we were sitting in our seats with just one question in mind: why? And even though my friend Lisa told me many times before that she couldn´t talk about films right after she saw them we were discussing this one the whole way back. Why did they do it? Is it "right" to make a movie about it? Is it a "wrong" certificate in a way for the criminals? First when you watch it, you have to slow down, it´s not one of the fast, thrilling action movies. It developes quite slowly, we see the two main characters, two 16 year old boys that left school already and bore themselves through the days. We have the feeling to get to know them a bit, even that we think we could assess their actions. And for no special reason one night they decide to kill somebody, the next one they meet, no matter who. And they do it, for nor special reason (it seems) with extraordinary brutality. They don´t feel guilty, ashamed or what else you could feel. Nothing. We can´t read their faces, but in the end we realise in a very short scene, when the psychoanalist asks the one boy about some guardian, that his father in in prison, "and the mother?"-"You can forget her", that actually it´s nothing at all we know about the boys, it was just some short cut out of their life. The soundtrack is outstanding, the pictures are intense and like art, the camerawork is very detailled, precise and concentrated. I found the pictures and coulors combined with the soundtrack extremly strong.