The Edukators (2004)
(Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei)
Country: GER/OST
Technical: col 127m
Director: Hans Weingartner
Cast: Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaussner
Synopsis:
A trio of anti-capitalist youngsters break into the homes of the wealthy to displace furniture and shake their sense of security. When they are obliged to kidnap one of their bourgeois targets after a bungled return visit, their solidarity and purpose are momentarily shaken.
Review:
Actually a far less satisfying film than some of its synopses suggest. For a start the initial destabilizing ingredient is the woman, not the gentrified former hippy they land themselves with (so far, so conventional). A revealing comparison between the latter's free-loving lifestyle back in '68 and their inability to share their girl comes to naught. On the other hand, their charge's disarming sympathy for their cause and lucid explanation of how, with family and responsibility, one suddenly finds oneself voting conservative, do little to alter their radical ideas - with apparent justification given his ultimate betrayal of their trust. An awful lot of time is wasted on the love aspect of the interpersonal drama when there needs to be more political heft. After all that is at stake the ending just appears glib, with the new radicals seemingly sharing a love nest and eluding the authorities for the time being, and the punchline "Some people never change" belying all that has gone before.
(Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei)
Country: GER/OST
Technical: col 127m
Director: Hans Weingartner
Cast: Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaussner
Synopsis:
A trio of anti-capitalist youngsters break into the homes of the wealthy to displace furniture and shake their sense of security. When they are obliged to kidnap one of their bourgeois targets after a bungled return visit, their solidarity and purpose are momentarily shaken.
Review:
Actually a far less satisfying film than some of its synopses suggest. For a start the initial destabilizing ingredient is the woman, not the gentrified former hippy they land themselves with (so far, so conventional). A revealing comparison between the latter's free-loving lifestyle back in '68 and their inability to share their girl comes to naught. On the other hand, their charge's disarming sympathy for their cause and lucid explanation of how, with family and responsibility, one suddenly finds oneself voting conservative, do little to alter their radical ideas - with apparent justification given his ultimate betrayal of their trust. An awful lot of time is wasted on the love aspect of the interpersonal drama when there needs to be more political heft. After all that is at stake the ending just appears glib, with the new radicals seemingly sharing a love nest and eluding the authorities for the time being, and the punchline "Some people never change" belying all that has gone before.
(Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei)
Country: GER/OST
Technical: col 127m
Director: Hans Weingartner
Cast: Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch, Stipe Erceg, Burghart Klaussner
Synopsis:
A trio of anti-capitalist youngsters break into the homes of the wealthy to displace furniture and shake their sense of security. When they are obliged to kidnap one of their bourgeois targets after a bungled return visit, their solidarity and purpose are momentarily shaken.
Review:
Actually a far less satisfying film than some of its synopses suggest. For a start the initial destabilizing ingredient is the woman, not the gentrified former hippy they land themselves with (so far, so conventional). A revealing comparison between the latter's free-loving lifestyle back in '68 and their inability to share their girl comes to naught. On the other hand, their charge's disarming sympathy for their cause and lucid explanation of how, with family and responsibility, one suddenly finds oneself voting conservative, do little to alter their radical ideas - with apparent justification given his ultimate betrayal of their trust. An awful lot of time is wasted on the love aspect of the interpersonal drama when there needs to be more political heft. After all that is at stake the ending just appears glib, with the new radicals seemingly sharing a love nest and eluding the authorities for the time being, and the punchline "Some people never change" belying all that has gone before.