Jack Butler
26Apr11
I feel like that was the point of it. They were clearly out of their depth.
this is a really soft version, a bit of fun but fails to deliver any kind of message. nice casting and nice camerawork. the writer and the director did a rehearsal - hopefully next time they do something like a real play.
Love in Thoughts wasn't so much the German The Dreamers as this film was; I think I like this one just as much.
It's a good film, anti-capitalist youth rebels against money-making world. but at some points it stop convincing me that what they are doing is right. they lost in their own arguments against the capitalism. the ending is of satisfaction, that the Educators keep trying what they've started and life goes on. Three stars, is all.
if you add to a naive ideological revolution just a little bit of Bertolucci's "The Dreamers" atmosphere you get this surprisingly good German movie.
This is a 14 year olds idea of rebellion. It is an overwrought and confused mess. If I met these people in real life I would smack them all in the face. I like Daniel Bruhl as an actor though. Too bad he's in this movie.
I watched this movie after seeing Julia Jentsch in Sophie Scholl in a class on modern Chinese literature (the prof was unable to get a hold of his Chinese film of choice and felt Sophie Scholl carried a similar theme). It was nice to see something more contemporary and see Jentsch play a more common Jule in a situation that somehow feels closer... maybe it was popular because it resonates with the generation... I'm not sure if the synopsis above really resonates completely with the film I thought I watched.
For the revolting hearts, for the utopists, for the dreamers, for the ones who didn't yet start to think...Turning the critical adolescent mind into a movie. It is sometimes near the edge of being naive and a cliche, but it somehow manages to keep a good line.
a little bit too much pop, but the kidnapping scenes are amazing. especialy that time Peter comes back, they go outside the house and they can´t speak anything.
The fat years are over, I've always wanted to go to a rich person's house and turn their living room upside down!