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Sahin (Almila Bagriacik) and Borowski (Axel Milberg) at the crime scene: organized crime against women
Photo: Christine Schroeder / NDR
The scenario:
The offended man, the ticking bomb.
After a young woman was mistreated and found dead in front of a discotheque, Commissioner Sahin (Almila Bagriacik) and her colleague Borowski (Axel Milberg) get to know the women's shelter in all its aggressive forms.
One of the suspects hangs around in Internet forums, where sexually neglected people act out their misogyny in violent fantasies.
Another suspect holds seminars where frustrated men are taught how to drum their chests and dominate.
Women are declared prey there.
The highlight:
Fools, trolls, testosterone monsters: in this “crime scene” the lamenti of the “incel” movement, whose representatives complain online about their “involuntary celibat” (involuntary celibacy), and the alpha talk from riot seminars combine to form a misogynous male choir.
Here the concentrated hatred leads to organized crime against women.
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Arndt Klawitter as leader of a breakout seminar: Dominance as the key to success?
Photo: Christine Schroeder / NDR
The picture:
Hair off for the hatred: After one of the internet trolls suffered another disgrace in real life, one of the murder suspects militarized himself and shaved his head.
He looks in the mirror ready to fight.
A Travis Bickle moment: like Robert De Niro as "Taxi Driver", the misogynist believes he has to do away with a series of attacks.
As De Niros said, irradiated by his addiction to meaning, Bickle: "Here is a man who would not take it anymore!"
The dialogue:
The investigative team has arrested the internet troll and is talking about him with a view of the interrogation room.
Sahin: »It has no ideological background. He has a problem with women. He can't even look me in the eye. "
Borowski: "Can he kill?"
Sahin: "Give me five minutes with him and he'll lose control."
The song:
"This Is What You Came For" by Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna.
"But she's looking at you, ooh, ooh, You, ooh, ooh, you, ooh, ooh
You, ooh, ooh, you, ooh, ooh, You, ooh, ooh, Ooh," Rihanna cheers over a power riff, while the shy young man approaches a young woman in a disco with a drink - who then leaves him standing alone at the bar, unlike the lady in the song.
Later we see the young man spreading hateful messages against women online.
The basket as a radicalization push.
The review:
6 out of 10 points.
Even if we would have wished for a few more vital female characters on this topic: a stirring panorama of misogyny.
The analysis:
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"Scene of the crime: Borowski and the fear of white men,"
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