The whole world had long set that globalization and the Internet would make our planet shrink to the size and lack of distance of a village. That way it is. Irreversible and undeniable as gravity.
In fact, we are then also moved together digitally closer, but somehow seems this fact for some time to be interested in anyone. Meanwhile perceived truths are more important than facts, social and physical:
Donald Trump appears millions of Americans as a serious presidential candidate, the theory that the Earth maybe is flat will be discussed fully unironic the Internet, and in Europe there want to get more people back in strictly defined national state convenient to insure only that they are a real treat. The latter works best when in front of them wearing his national characteristics as the “Merkel Must Way” poster in Monday’s Pegida demonstration in Dresden.
Sylt is not the Côte d Riviera
Each country will soon be so again want to present as national snowflake – so unlike any other, and of course better. This requires arguments or even better: a flashy image campaign. Now not having a French Riviera (forget it, Sylt does not apply) each country. But any advertising agency will tell you that there is always a USP, a “unique selling point” as USP saying goes in marketing German.
In order to understand what we can in this country to build for the upcoming “Foul Territory” campaign, it pays to know which image Germany so far in the world has that. And there are movies like “Collide”. Small surprise advance: There are hardly Nazis before
“Collide” is a British-American production, which was filmed exclusively in North Rhine-Westphalia.. A good old German Rhine. And of course, the film should really be called “highway”. Why did the producers but in the end decided for the English title How else., Can not understand really reasonable. Perhaps there was trouble with power plant.
What we already are in the middle of the action, as the movie starts – after accident sequence on the A4 between Kerpen and Düren, about which we must speak later – at a rave in Cologne. Yes, power plant are also 35 years after their album “Computer World”, her techno pioneer work par excellence, was mainly responsible for that the world is convinced real German relaxation is to have only one pumping four-four time.
the two exiled Americans Casey Stone and Juliette Marne meet on the dance floor. Only two of many very confusing casting decisions, which can not be combined so correctly with the script: The Briton Nicholas Hoult (last very successful on the desert highway in “Mad Max: Fury Road” on the go) and his compatriot Felicity Jones play the Americans Casey and Juliette, who wound it from designated not get much closer to Germany reasons.
Why you force the two Englishmen to deny their accent, rather than adapt the screenplay, is fairly incomprehensible. In the German translation the whole is even more confusing, because there recognize both their common nationality at the American accent, which do not have the voice actors.
Dutch from Cologne
Also plays Anthony Hopkins, actually a Welshman, the son of an SS officer (as I said, Nazis are no before), which, however, somehow grew up in Britain should be, but in Germany pursues its nasty business. The Dutchman Marwan Kenzari is a Kölner Jung named Matthias (of course, a fan of the 1. FC Köln).
And Ben Kingsley, native Krishna Bhanji from Yorkshire, makes Turkish gangster Geran. Germany has obviously not the reputation of being a spectacle stronghold. After Joachim Król allowed with the shotgun at Hopkins shoot.
Anyway, Casey and Juliette meet at a rave. He dealt. She works at the bar and bang. Love at first sight, joint home (an old apartment without plaster and old as lockers as wardrobe: What does this say about the perceived housing situation in this country?), She wears his shirts, both drinking brandy to light snowfall. All very romantic.
Up Juliette collapses. Sets out, she has a blood disease and would need a new kidney. The but does not receive. Allegedly, because it is American (here would of course the image campaign ran, because that’s not true. Even as a foreigner you get in Germany an organ if the doctor detects an emergency after the transplant guidelines. Only this insight, the film would have quite thwarted ).
so this we can get the full benefit of the German motorways and its speed limit freedom decides Casey that they need money to private in the US to pay for the operation. This is just like that. he can only get the money if he does a dangerous job for his former boss Geran.
Kingsley plays the Turkish-born gangster with a penchant for eccentric spectacles, gilded pistols and silk pajamas in Animal Print so overexcited that one has to wonder whether the German -Turkish community not perhaps a defamation suit should make an effort. The order for Casey includes, a truck full of cocaine Gerans drug smuggling colleague Hagen Kahl (Anthony Hopkins) to steal.
Where to go from here to the highway?
The whole thing is of course wrong. Kahl ineptly Casey, told him a horror story about his evil Nazi father and his torture methods, leaving his minions the task to make the lovesick Americans disappear. But all make mistakes of a Bond villain, and Casey escapes. And in one of the many sports cars that Kahl has standing in his shipping company.
German Autobahn, we come from? Not quite yet. First, even the Teutons Kitsch must be processed, and is Monschau. This Eifel town with its idyllic half-timbered houses and nasty barking sheepdogs is apparently beside Lederhosen Bayern, the German recognition drawing in the world. That Casey with his car then thunders in a hot dog stand, already must be considered an exaggeration.
Again (Hoult likely since “Mad Max” in duration chase scenes feel) succeeds a spectacular escape. And finally brings him to the highway. That is really the highlight of the film. Here Hollywood is finally to “Alarm für Cobra 11″ (allegedly was the same Stuntproduktion at work here).
In a Citroën combi with roof box moves Casey his pursuers thereof. For the rotation has borrowed an unfinished piece of A4, and since then could all go so fast, until everything explodes. And then it goes further still. This is in a frenzy. Neither police nor ambulances are there fast enough. Overall, German forces come away not good. If the SEC surrounded a pub and says: “You’re surrounded,” then that is saying: The back door is still free.
We reveal of course not, how it will end, but honestly, after this chase scenes that’s a damn. Better it can not be. What “Collide” has really taught us is that in Germany pretty cool action movies can rotate – when British, Dutch, Turks and French (Ilan Eshkeri did the soundtrack) help. Maybe we remember that at the next attempt to return to the nation state.
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