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Systemsprenger (2019)
One of the most harrowingly realistic films I've seen in a long time.
Coming from director Nora Fingscheidt is a profoundly emotional, perfectly acted film with the verisimilitude of Bergman and the intense existentialism and immediacy of Tarkovsky within her film "System Crasher."
Opening with the quixotic journey of having to place a nine year old girl named Bernadette, who prefers "Benni", into a home after being refused by over twenty others. She can be as kind and sharp witted as she can be cruel and unforgiving ad libitum; confusing and putting both doctors and social workers in a deepening quagmire.
While showing promise, Benni oft slips back deeper into herself; living in a world of paranoia and adult logic and actions that she cannot comprehend; lashing out physically and verbally as she withdraws and disappears into her own mind, her own world.
She finds comfort and succor in one of the social workers, Micha, whom, one day, she follows home to live with him. He lets her stay for the night giving her a glimmer of hope which is taken from her the next day as she placed back in care because her mother cannot control Benni's fits of mood while trying to take care of her other two children.
Will the system fail her, or will it lift her up as they decide she would be best off at one of their locations in Kenya where they've had numerous success stories with children of her ilk?
Caught (2017)
Brilliant, Slow-burn, British sci-fi/horror.
For the unfortunate negative reviews, I can only say this film is for people who prefer a more cerebral, slow-paced movie that takes its time to play out rather than fast edits and having the plot spelled out for you. In the final analysis, what happened is entirely up to you.
"Caught" is a brilliant, slow-burn British film for those who prefer a little mystery rather than having everything wrapped up in a neat, little bow and the plot overexplained.
It's a sci-fi/horror film about a family who is visited by a couple who are nothing short of terrifyingly strange and inhuman in their speech and actions creating a maniacal ambience from which they cannot escape.
Taking place in the 70s, the husband is a photographer who had taken pictures of what he believed to be a new army base set up around the moors by which he lives. He and his wife are visited by a couple called Mr. and Mrs. Blair whose intent is to interrogate them at any cost, but something is quite different about them.
Over time the husband figures out what they really came for, but it may just be too late.