Additionally, the Crime scene He wants to be cool with his constant jokes, but doesn’t know how to do it and therefore comes across as the type of man who thinks he has to comment on everything because he thinks every word he hears is a joke, this that he can’t do. remember from others: “Nothing exists, it seems, apart from the sun. » – “And the moon. » – “Yes, the moon too. »
The senseless absurdity (“Even flat hierarchies remain hierarchies”) is presented in constant motion because the film clearly does not trust its text and wants to convey the action as a safety measure (director: Jobst Christian Oetzmann). The meeting with the woman from the Constitutional Protection Office (Katja Bürkle) takes place in a faceless café, in an absolutely non-conspiratorial manner, so that two “Chinese” in the background can be suspected of being possible spies. , only to be arrested as cigarette traffickers.
And so on. Made in China is an absurd amalgamation of ill-adapted American influences and a very general desire to create a stylish picture, which illustrates what is seriously considered a TV movie in Germany. The fact that even a techno club has freshly painted monochrome walls in subtle tones like Villa Haiden (production design: Thomas Schmid) contributes to the plasticity.
25 years ago, a Berlin episode of Urs Odermatt, which also starred Marie-Lou Sellem (here as Jo-Haiden’s wife), demonstrated that slogan-like speech could be used to tell stories stories in a very skillful way – unfortunately, that was the case. A Hollywood touch long considered the worst Crime scene always misunderstood. The film had a precise and idiosyncratic idea of performing well-worn speech acts in such a fun way that it became clear why communication often fails. From this self-deprecating trick Made in China
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