imdbcom-69969
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Beautifully filmed and tastefully edited sequences combined with informative comments about the biology and environmental context of this mighty cat. The technical tools deployed to get these images are top notch toys that delivered thanks to the patience and dedication of the filmmakers.
Not a single tiger strike on a prey was actually captured at night, but overall, it's a delight to watch this hypnotic documentary from beginning to end.
The only problem all along was for me, non-native English speaker, to fully understand the narrator, whose pronunciation, combined with poor sound mixing at time, was unfortunately not crisp enough to make it always intelligible over the background music or soundtrack.
Not a single tiger strike on a prey was actually captured at night, but overall, it's a delight to watch this hypnotic documentary from beginning to end.
The only problem all along was for me, non-native English speaker, to fully understand the narrator, whose pronunciation, combined with poor sound mixing at time, was unfortunately not crisp enough to make it always intelligible over the background music or soundtrack.
Well, I wasn't moved by this movie at all, not even a second. I found it quite boring but watched it to the end just in case some kind of a shift happened. Unfortunately, it didn't. It just carried on, plodding along its utterly uninteresting and mostly predictable storyline.
From what I read, the painting over of the original footage is the magic that supposedly lifts the whole thing from its mediocrity to the realm of quasi-cinematic chef-d'oeuvre. Well, it didn't work for me. There is nothing artistic or even remotely creative in this paint work, even if it took hundreds of hours and "painters" to achieve it. I mean, it's just the 2 hours of footage slavishly painted over, except for the one 15 seconds foggy sequence with a naive attempt at some kind of departure from realism that, of course, does not save the whole movie but reveals what it could have been.
So for me, overall, this aesthetic failure, coupled with dialogues that are as shallow and cliched as the characters themselves, far from lifting anything, just makes the whole piece quite soulless, if not pointless.
From what I read, the painting over of the original footage is the magic that supposedly lifts the whole thing from its mediocrity to the realm of quasi-cinematic chef-d'oeuvre. Well, it didn't work for me. There is nothing artistic or even remotely creative in this paint work, even if it took hundreds of hours and "painters" to achieve it. I mean, it's just the 2 hours of footage slavishly painted over, except for the one 15 seconds foggy sequence with a naive attempt at some kind of departure from realism that, of course, does not save the whole movie but reveals what it could have been.
So for me, overall, this aesthetic failure, coupled with dialogues that are as shallow and cliched as the characters themselves, far from lifting anything, just makes the whole piece quite soulless, if not pointless.
The real life story on which the writer/director, Katrin Gebbe, "based" her script on involves a mentally handicapped 29 yo man, Thies Fischer, who was exploited for money while being humiliated and finally tortured to death by a couple, Werner and Manuela H.
The real-life event is believable while this movie distorted script is not, by a long shot. Even a really naive young religious person would not behave this way. The choice made by the writer to substitute a mental handicap for a strong faith (perhaps , in doing so, revealing of her own perception of faith) is mind blogging since it totally disserves the whole narrative by considerably decreasing it credibility. Moreover, the financial exploitation that characterizes the primary motive of the real case murderer becomes an insignificant details and is replaced by purely sadistic tendencies. Advising the viewers that the story is "based" on a true event is therefore dishonest, at best. "Remotely inspired by", maybe, but not "based on".
Acting, production and camera work throughout the movie are outstanding, but, in my view, this can't make up for the fact that the script lacks credibility and that this false claim just stands out as a marketing ploy to exploit a very sad event.
The real-life event is believable while this movie distorted script is not, by a long shot. Even a really naive young religious person would not behave this way. The choice made by the writer to substitute a mental handicap for a strong faith (perhaps , in doing so, revealing of her own perception of faith) is mind blogging since it totally disserves the whole narrative by considerably decreasing it credibility. Moreover, the financial exploitation that characterizes the primary motive of the real case murderer becomes an insignificant details and is replaced by purely sadistic tendencies. Advising the viewers that the story is "based" on a true event is therefore dishonest, at best. "Remotely inspired by", maybe, but not "based on".
Acting, production and camera work throughout the movie are outstanding, but, in my view, this can't make up for the fact that the script lacks credibility and that this false claim just stands out as a marketing ploy to exploit a very sad event.