Something More Than Night

This is not just a film, it is more a way of looking on a city and its inhabitants. I remember myself being a bit bored while watching the film at Berlinale. But now nearly a year later I have to admit that I was often thinking about it. All these views into illuminated windows. Busy people trying to live in the dark. There are some pictures which are hard to forget even if you have not noticed them for the first time. If you accept that there is no story at all just "life" than the film can start creeping into your mind.

This documentary made me not only feel totally bored - it made me feel really angry! I watched it at the Berlinale in 2003 and I wondered, why they show such crap to the audience. There are so many talented young people having great ideas and making brilliant movies - and this guy places a camera somewhere at some totally unmeaning places in Chicago, showing some totally unmeaning scenes preferably through a fence or from a far distance and without any word of comment to them ... and it seems like an eternity of stupidity, but he is at the Berlinale and there is even audience who applaud to this.

Eisenberg wanted to collect and show impressions from his home town. But this is less than boring - to both kind of people I talked to: the ones, who have never been in Chicago, and even the ones, who know the city well.

Perhaps the director would say, it´s kind of art and I am just not able to understand this. But I think, I exactly understand it. The documentary is incredibly bad and it was waste of time watching it. Actually it makes the whole thing much too serious writing some lines of comment to it or even trying to discuss about it.