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"Wut" is definitely a masterpiece! And in my opinion it is unworthy for such a good drama to just play it in television. This film is a socio-critical drama, which describes a social focus in our society. Most of the German dramas avail themselves of clichés and play down, this one here is the first movie, which shows the hard reality - even when it is very exaggerated. But this is necessary for the main message of the movie. In addition to that director Züli Aladag has found the two most impressive actors ever for these roles: Oktay Özdemir ("Knallhart"), whose acting as gang leader Can is genius and August Zirner, who gives a great performance as father, who does not know how to deal with his son's problems...

Aladag succeeded in making a critical view on the problematic situation of violence in German schools, compared with wrong integration. This movie could have also international success!

shocking taboo-breaker! Can, a young German pusher / drug dealer of Turkish immigrant's background, terrorizes the entire family of a university teacher until the very end, beginning with son Felix (a perfect victim). I see specially the professor's woman's part within the conflict as an extremely fatal and unhelpful one, since pseudo-powerful and pseudo-emancipated. Are our liberal (over-?) civilized democracies still able to stop such destructive aggressive human beings like Can? ...Or Achmadineschad? Why could this film not been shown in the early evening (8.15 pm) as announced first? It's subject will be specially important for younger people! However, a subject overdue to deal with!

A real sucker for any sort of German film (yes, even a television one), I was very pleased to encounter Wut being shown here on Irish television. Claiming to deal with themes of racism and identity within society, I happily sat back to watch.

Can is a Turkish teen living in Germany. One of two sons living with his elderly father, he is something of a mischief maker. He supplies drugs to the notably better off Felix, achieving laughs and entertainment at the expense of the upper class boy. Eventually, Felix's father learns of Can's escalating bullying of his son, and steps in to stop it.

Wut effectively portrays racial and class barriers in modern German society. The interaction between Felix and Can is fully believable, Can's sinister aura wonderfully hair-raising. Key to the film, the anti- hero is given humanity: a very powerful device which allows us to sympathise with him to a degree, giving us much to think about and forcing us to question the actions of some of the "more moral" characters we might traditionally find ourselves rooting for. The father's gradual realisation that he is all but powerless to stop the oppressive gang leader is an idea well conveyed by the emasculated performance of August Zirner. Felix's slow but steady idolisation of the powerful alpha-male who acts with far more paternal influence and masculinity than his father ever could has us biting our nails and worrying uneasily where the story will take us. Its eventual twists and turns are unforeseen, shocking, and tangibly dramatic, leading us to an interesting climax. In itself, however, the climax is somewhat lacking and flawed, though intriguing. The film achieves its intention, successfully acting as a catalyst to consideration, but not without bumps along the way.

Though marred by certain problems and not consistently gripping, Wut does encourage us to consider the message at its heart. The true appeal of the film lies in Felix's falling for the serpentine hissings of Can, fuelled by his disillusion with the world around him. Quite enjoyable as a whole, you could find far worse ways to spend time than watching Wut.

This film is definitely one of my favorite films. Especially because love movies from the years between 2005-2006. The script of the film is very good, the fight between Simon and Can in the film is well written and you can quickly see what the film is about. I would have liked the film to be longer. I also like the places where the film was shot, but what I missed were the scenes in the classroom. Actors like "Simon laub" play their roles well as well as "Can" but "Felix" is not a good choice for the role in my opinion. All in all, it's a very good film, which I give it 10 points for. Nice film!

I've seen this film a few days ago and i'm still a bit angry about the time i wasted on it. If i had known how bad i gets in the second half, i wouldn't had started watching it. Basically, i'm not against German movies, there are even many German ones amongst my favorites, but this film is crap. The first sequence starts with break dancing Turkish juveniles with migration background (according to the German official's language). In fact, i'm living all my live in an area with a quite high proportion of foreigners, especially Turkish people and i've never seen or heard of Turkish break-dancers or basket-ballplayers. Maybe there are some on German streets, but i think this was only put into this film to satisfy the stereotype image of the unexperienced viewers. I could accept the subplot dealing with problems in the relationship of the young boy's parents and in fact the acting of all actors is solid. But after all a pretentious viewer has to admit, big parts of the screenplay is rubbish. The whole story is based on the young boys improbable naivety. After he got beaten repeatedly, he accuses his father, why his generation has had let so many violent people into Germany, just to declare friendship a few days later with the same boy, who is responsible, that he got beaten up a few days before. Maybe, this review has made you curious for this movie and in fact i can't keep you away from this film, but i can recommend you an similar film, which is also set in a similar surrounding and really worth watching it: Knallhart by Detlev Buck.