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Bönisch (Anna Schudt) during an arrest: the virus of anger
Photo: Martin Menke / WDR
The scenario:
The anger virus is circulating and it is highly infectious.
The Dortmund team of investigators felt the social division when they investigated the murder in a high-rise estate.
After Bönisch (Anna Schudt) arrested a young Iraqi and was filmed with mobile phones, the right-wing scene celebrates her as a law-and-order heroine and the left-wing one branded her as a racist.
Colleague Faber (Jörg Hartmann), who had just started to fall in love with Bönisch, is not much help: He gets drunk in front of the contested apartment block with a shopkeeper who went bankrupt during the first Corona lockdown.
He watches helplessly as mask mobs from different camps attack each other.
The highlight:
Imagine we had a pandemic and no one tried to hide it in the »crime scene«: This crime thriller was made in the Corona late summer of 2020;
In contrast to other recent productions, no attempt was made to banish masks and other real hygiene measures from the picture.
Instead, the pandemic accessories are fed into the crisis scenario of a society that is tearing itself to pieces.
The relation to reality is strong - the political analysis rather weak.
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"Tatort" newcomer Rosa Herzog (Stefanie Reinsperger) with colleague Jan Pawlak (Rick Okon): What can be done against hatred?
Photo: Martin Menke / WDR
The picture:
Faber drives his car alone to sad piano music past ruins of old buildings and sadness of new buildings in the Dortmund district of Scharnhorst.
On the passenger seat, noodles getting cold from the Asian snack bar, which he had actually brought back to his colleague Bönisch.
The dialogue:
Faber drinks schnapps from small bottles with an unemployed man, in the background a broke computer shop.
Faber: “How long do you want to live in your old shop? At some point you will be caught. "
Unemployed person: »I apply to anyone who is still in their early 50s. For that I need an address and a mailbox. I'm not moving to an emergency shelter in the ass in the world. And you? No home?"
Faber: "Nobody is there right now, no."
The song:
»Sunshine Reggae« by Laid Back.
“Gimme just a little smile” is the motto of the indestructible sangria hymn that has been blaring through the decades.
In fact, Bönisch Faber gives a small smile on the morning drive to the district.
The only sunny moment in this Corona crime thriller when Faber has to watch Bönisch start an affair with a colleague from forensics.
Faber later quoted the Lassie Singers, half ironically and half bent: "Couple fuck off, nobody misses you!"
The review:
6 out of 10 points.
No hygienic measure can help against this hatred: a tangible, sometimes too rough social scenario about division processes in times of the pandemic.
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