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1. ›Review Film: BERLIN SYNDROME (2017)@film-trail2950d

   

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    As the title suggests, Berlin Syndrome refers to the Stockholm Syndrome that took place in the German capital, where past events once, even still split populations within them. One party celebrates the freedom of repression, the other holds the romance of the life of the past that they perceive as perfect. Adapting Melanie Joosten's novel, Berlin Syndrome away from the thriller-themed routine of kidnapping tourists ends the brutal torture as a major threat (Hostel, The Human Centipede, Wolf Creek), chooses a psychological exploration to describe the impact on the victim, as well as the impulse of the perpetrator.

   An Australian tourist named Claire (Teresa Palmer) arrived in Berlin, spending the night chatting while drinking with strangers on the rooftops. Not a wild night, but a pleasant enough warmth for someone who was alone in a strange land. Then the sun rises in the morning before going on to take a photograph of the former East German building. It's a perfect getaway for her. Plus his meeting with Andi (Max Riemelt), an English teacher at a sports school. The one night stand of this blissful complement seems to have been the start of a disaster that shocked Claire, but not for the audience, From the beginning easy to guess the hospitality and romantic "shy" Andi just a mask. The true variety of other plot points call Andi secret, the turning point in the middle of the story until the conclusion can be smelled from afar. Realizing that the process is the most important portion of a narrative, Shaun Grant's manuscript does not intend to spell a twist. Together with the patience of director Cate Shortland playing the tempo, Grant cleverly tucks the overshadow moments as his story creeps into sensual nuances. Andi's remark if no one can hear Claire's voice or when she says she wants to tie her up is not just a naughty temptation.

   As already mentioned, Berlin Syndrome is not a porn torture armed with sadism. Although occasionally shows Claire's experiments with runoff, the majority of the duration is actually used as an observation of Andi's life. This is the thriller in which the offender gets more in-depth attention than the victim (we only know Claire's origin and work, the rest is opaque). The audience sees Andi's daily life that often visits his father (Matthias Habich), or while teaching. This method provided enough stock for the film to explain much about Andi, like the mother who left her family to West Germany before the Berlin Wall collapsed until her reluctance to socialize. Patriarchy, repression for the perfection of one side of superiority, the themes are neatly summarized, although, in addition to informative expositions, the conflict appeals to the present raised the tension in this phase.

   Broadly speaking, the development of Berlin Syndrome dynamics is sustained by two major viewers who for two weeks before shooting live together in a small apartment similar to a movie location. Their relationship begins with a sweet romance, evolving so friction perpetrators with the victim, to lead to the complex when the content of his character is more ambiguous. Riemelt made Andi, not just a cold-blooded maniac. Occasionality of awkwardness, sincerity, even tenderness that implies weakness arises. While Palmer makes a gradual process of psychic disorder his character can be trusted. Claire's turning point attitude was felt as a result of a natural process, Assisted by cinematographer Germain McMicking, Shortland is skilled at stringing well-made drawings to stylish styles. Occasionally slow motion comes in to add visual styles that are actually nihil substance, also often dragging the path of the groove. Though Shortland is good enough in the affairs of fishing tension, including when an end is like hide-and-seek death. In conclusion, I always assumed that the definition of a good ending is worthy of its character, no matter how happy or tragic. Berlin Syndrome clearly has a resolution of fate that is very deserved acceptable to both parties. 

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2. ›Berlin Syndrome (2017)@showflix3191d

   

   
   
   The title plays with our expectations. Unfortunately, I found the film too long in duration but also too short to dig deeper.
   Berlin Syndrome is a good title. He plays with our expectations. The title probably refers to " Stockholm Syndrome ," which, as we know, is a psychological response in which the abducted hostages are beginning to feel sympathy for the kidnappers irrespective of what they have experienced before. Is our main character Clare will experience a shift of perception, not only accept his destiny but also begin to fall in love with his captor, Andi?
   
   No one with common sense who would accept the person who held him for (maybe) months ago made him a girlfriend, unless you are Kristin from Swiss Credit Bank Sveriges who was so in love with the hostage taker that she canceled her engagement with her boyfriend. This logical fact makes the main concept of the film, which, when viewed from the title, is a suspension of whether our main character "will" or "will not," no longer be, uhm, suspens. We know what will happen and the movie does not give any kind of convincing diversion to make us believe it will happen or not.
   
   Even so, the tension of the film is enough to make one more powerful reason not to travel alone to a strange city, especially if you are a young woman and seduced by a handsome man. man may be big (body), but not necessarily good heart. I'm sure this movie must be more frightening for the female audience. Interestingly, Berlin Syndrome takes a different approach from its premises on the surface. This movie is not a killing-killing thriller but a psychological thriller. Instead of being a shallow gore film with scenes of torture or sexual abuse, Cate Shortland who picked up the script from Shaun Grant from Melanie Joosten's novel adaptation tries to move deeper by focusing on the psychological aspects of both the offender and the victim.
   
   Clare ( Teresa Palmer ) is an Australian girl, who, like most millennials who have too much money, travels abroad in search of identity. He traveled the city of Berlin alone, shopping, or taking photos of historic buildings. Clare's personal seems to be fun, because she can easily mingle and hang out with the youngsters around her hostel.
   
   "Almost everyone who walks alone is lonely," said the handsome Andi ( Max Riemelt ). Andi who is a high school teacher, seems funny, friendly, and warm. Oh, moreover he also offers fresh strawberries; no one does not like strawberries. So, Clare deliberately delayed his trip to Dresden, then with horny (I value from his gasping breath) back to visit Andi. Both spent an exciting night in Andi's apartment. True, something terrible is about to happen, but Clare will not know that yet.
   
   Well , Clare already has a hunch, but there you go. In the morning Clare found the apartment door locked from the outside. When I get home from work, Andi apologizes not leaving a backup key. Clare believes heavily and still has not come home yet. The next day, he saw the key on the table, but finally realized that Andi did not want him to leave.
   
   

   

   
   
   Shortland built the setup with an effective storytelling. He uses a minimal exposition that is intertwined seamlessly with the story. The first half is the best part of the movie. We know anything that happens in Andi's apartment will not get to the outside world. "Nobody will hear you," Andi said in a hot moment as they first fluttered. No one else will hear as Clare graffs trying to run away later. The window of his apartment was broken. Mobile phone network is not there.
   
   

   
   There are scenes that will make a lot of pain, but Berlin Syndrome is mostly about the dynamics of the relationship between Clare and Andi, promising something that seems to be related to the title of the movie. As time went on, except for the fact that he was being held, Clare was treated normally. Andi brought him flowers, presents, cooked food, bathed to cut Clare's nails. However, we can still feel the sadness and exhaustion of Clare thanks to the strong appearance of Palmer. Its characteristics are more based on gesture and expression. Palmer shows a complex character regardless of the fact that his character is not very talkative and not very described his background.
   
   Shortland divides attention equally for both the main characters. For the Clare character, we are invited to take a peek at the transition of his mental state. Andi gets a portion for a glimpse of the past and what is most likely to make her what she is. Although not enough to make us empathize with Andi, Riemelt plays his role with a calm and sincere that suggests that this maniac has at least a soft side. He was more like a melancholy man who could not resist his crazy obsession. Not a bit we see Andi as a criminal who though had several times to do sadistic.
   
   Unfortunately, I found this movie too long in duration but also too short to dig deeper. Movies come to a climax that is not so explore what is trying to lift. His grip begins to loosen when his setup is over. In the middle of the movie Clare looks too tired from being caged for the caution. I also began to get tired when the movie rambled there.
   
   

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3. ›If your daughter travels alone, 'Berlin Syndrome' will scare you (Review)@socialnewsxyz3257d

   

   By Subhash K. Jha

   Film: "Berlin Syndrome"; Director: Cate Shortland; Cast: Teresa Palmer and Max Reimelt; Rating: ***

   This matter-of-fact brisk and tactile thriller doesn't take long to get down to the business on hand. Delving into the psyche of a sociopath who is a normal working-class bloke is not easy. The evil here is more suggested than manifested. Which is why when the young Australian tourist Clara (Teresa Palmer) in Germany is seduced by the suave well-read Andi (Max Reimelt) we know what she doesn't.

   In spite of his academic charm and obedient-son act with his old father, just how dangerous Max actually is, doesn't take long to be manifested. The awfully-titled "Berlin Syndrome" (sounds like an outbreak of a virus) is one of the most lucid testaments to a twisted mind in recent times.

   Andi's reasons to imprison Clara are so clear in his head...and so sordid in the bed. The film is shot in stark unforgiving shades of intangible evil giving to the cat-and-mouse game a kind of immediacy and desperation that makes our hearts sink to the dingy unlit floor.

   To be honest, there isn't much cat-and-mouse here. Clara's captivity is so well-planned and so scarily final you wonder how and when the film will seek out a happy ending for her. The denouement is so sloppily and hastily planned it almost kills the impact of the rest of this horrific tale of the teacher and the 'taut'.

   The film's biggest achievement is its depiction of monstrous spatial disharmony in a confined apartment block. The director makes sure Clara's captivity is not a force to be taken lightly. She infuses every moment of Clara's agony with a perceptive yet elusive urgency. There is a sense doom and destruction cutting through the film's brutally unrelating narration.

   And Teresa Palmer makes her character's nightmarish predicament seem so credible, she puts us in an inescapable sense of desperation.

   In spite of a messy conveniently done end-game, the film works well as a warning to all single girls travelling alone in foreign lands. Please don't befriend strangers. And if you do, make sure to tell your mother to check on you the next morning.

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