Gut gegen Nordwind

A quite good German romantic comedy. Besides funny and cute, it is very innovative considering the genre. Worth watching. Very well acted and directed.

It's powerful -how 2 peoples emotions and feelings are shown by not even seeing each other in real life. It's witty and funny but at the same time with a deep meaning .

I also had an instance where I was sending emails to an ex-classmate of mine. At least that's what I thought, turned out that someone else was receiving the emails. No romance evolved and no real connection came of it. One day she (the email adress would suggest that it was also a she) wrote back that she enjoys my emails, but that she has no idea who I am.

I guess if I reacted differently ... but then again, it didn't sound like she (again very likely a she) was interested in more. In fact she told me to stop sending her emails. That sounds quite definitive right? Anyway I'm completely off topic ... well not off topic, but off movie here.

There seems to be a different version (maybe a short movie?) of this film. I have not watched that obviously. A nicely told story of many characters and a very well casted one at that. Not just German talent at hand, but that is not the reason why I liked it. Everyone plays their role as good as they can. And you are quite able to understand their motivation. Ending on a beat that ... well I think most people/viewers will approve of.

And so, it looked somewhat promising for the first half hour and then it was quiet afternoon and I forced myself to endure the remaining interminable load of never ending nothing. All in the hope that something important/useful/interesting might occur.

Nope. Just bored, bourgeois not particularly interesting/talented/inventive or motivated, utterly self absorbed people with no real problems to speak of, too comfortably off, wandering around in a blaze of nothingness, not even proper self seeking or self examination or anything else to offer the viewer. Apparently based on a book. Mills and Boon? Not enough here to waste five minutes on. Romance is NOT destroying a solid marriage on a bored person's whim. Goodbye to that load of trash.

This was an excellent film about the experience of online anonymity and how the connection one makes with a special some one in this way can be stronger than the traditional way. How long that connection can be sustained is another question. This however, doesn't take away from the fact that such experience will move you. This film does a fantastic job creating a vibe of introspection and transference that happens during online connections. The acting is fabulous, the soundtrack is a journey in itself. The director obviously had a good understanding of such experience and therefore how to bring it all together in a magical way, which is likely to be how one would experience this type of anonymous online connection.