Lotte

Sehr guter Flim. Mal aus einer anderen Perspektive.

The first thing you notice about this movie is the coldness of the characters. They lack any kind of emotional response at all. It seems something endemic in German films. Within this background we then see an estranged mother initiate her newly found teenage daughter into the world of cigarettes, alcohol, drugs and sex. Furthermore, this so called, "mother" works during the day as a nurse and a binge drinking drop out by night. It's as if all the characters in this movie are bound up in some awful past trauma. Are the makers of the film trying to say, "We are Germans and this is what we are" ? This process continues and without any kind of resolution. There is nothing that brings this dire farce to any kind of conclusion. The coldness and lack of warmth in this film makes one want to scream! Ultimately it leads to a flat, boring, robotic film. A very poor example of a functional exercise in low budget film making and nothing else.

One life - I think most of us believe we only have one life to live. So how do we spend the time we have? It's only a finite amount we get. Do we look back on things we've done (wrong) or are we just trying to move forward? Do we cherish relationships and let them become something more or do we try to get back and make up with people we once loved? There are quite a few things you can read into this ... or just enjoy how the main character chooses to live.

But she also has her moments, where she reflects and tries to be different. I think many of us are in a struggle. Do we want to change, can we change? And would it matter to those who know us a certain way? Can we make up for how we treated other people or remedy our mistakes from the past? That might be reading a lot into the movie - and maybe you just want to enjoy it as a character piece ... it's up to you. It's fairly short which makes for quick view too.