michaelmommsen

Dancing on the razor's edge, a taboo subject such as pedophilia and the search for one's own sexual identity. Stylistically realized by Steve Bache and impressively portrayed by newcomer Carlo Krammling.

You can only do everything wrong here or get it very sensitively right. This is exactly what the movie succeeds in doing, the protagonist doubts again and again, wavers but does not fall.

Conclusion: A great movie - simply great cinema, because the film manages to illuminate the emotional side in an almost documentary way. It doesn't remain vague but takes the viewer through the whole movie with the necessary distance, heavy fare but 10 stars because it's well worth seeing.

Beautiful animated film about Abidan and the first Gulf War. The film is set in 1980 in Abadan in the south, where Omid, 14 years old, is growing up. He has to save a penalty kick during a shoot-out - and lets the ball through into the goal because bombs are falling on the refinery at the same time. The war is on: the Iraqis are besieging the city, shelling it, bombing it. The inhabitants are exposed to death. We experience this war from the perspective of a teenager: his mother and younger siblings are able to flee, Omid stays in Abadan with his grandfather - his older brother has volunteered for the front.

The special thing about The Siren is that the film stays completely with the Iranians in a situation in which the alternative to a religious state is being overrun by the enemy, Saddam Hussein's Iraq. And so the Iranian situation itself, shortly after the revolution, is not - or only very incidentally - thematised. It's about the war that nobody here wants and that nobody really understands. It's about people who have a revolution behind them, who have to bow to new rules (headscarves for women!), but who are above all confronted by a faceless enemy from outside.

The story meanders, has no destination for a long time - this is intentional, and the war has neither a purpose nor a foreseeable end. It is only when Omid overhears officers talking about a possible final and undefendable attack by Iraqi troops that he makes a decision. And he carries out this decision persistently and consistently.

You do a lot of things you wouldn't actually want to do out of social pressure or fear of missing out on something. (Wim Wenders)

"Perfect Days" is one of my favorite films because it made me want to change my life after watching it - and I did a little bit. It's a great movie. It shows us what the best version could be like or what you could be like yourself. And the moment you cross the threshold and allow that to happen.

He takes time to read, to look at the morning sun early in the morning, he knows exactly where everything is, when the plants need water and has everything he needs for a happy day. And you think that's how life should be.

Because you realize that you have too much of everything and that makes you unhappy. After this movie, you feel a great sense of happiness and longing.