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Odenthal (Ulrike Folkerts, l.) And Stern (Lisa Bitter): Hunt for the narcissist
Photo: Benoit Linder / SWR
The scenario:
Zero empathy, massive egomania, maximum loss of reality.
In the current murder case by the Ludwigshafen police force, a young man is very quickly targeted, who celebrates himself as the new Steve Jobs, while he has one professional failure after another.
The owner of a late night shop was beaten to death with a baseball bat at night, and while the young narcissist (Christopher Schärf) is being questioned about the gruesome act, for some inexplicable reason the mood seems appropriate to him to flirt violently with one of the investigators.
Odenthal (Ulrike Folkerts) and Stern (Lisa Bitter) meet someone for whom the world revolves around their own navel.
The highlight:
The »crime scene« in the footsteps of Trump.
With the former US president's self-mad failures, we have all become psychologists who know about the dangers of pathological self-love.
This is the psycho-thriller for the fashion diagnosis of narcissism - in which the investigators dissolve the subject so diligently that the plot fades into the background.
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The investigators on the police station: diagnosis of self-love
Photo: Benoit Linder / SWR
The picture:
The suspect's pupils in close-up.
During the interrogation, one of the investigators traces the eye movements of her counterpart - and thus recognizes his lies.
There is plenty of that.
The vain Fatzke is identified as a murderer early on.
The dialogue:
The commissioners in conversation about the narcissist.
Stern: »My sister is also one of those candidates. No empathy, everything is just an act. These texts about his mother sounded very familiar to me. "
Odenthal: "He definitely has a strong need to represent something very special."
Stern: "Desire for grandiosity, that's what they call it. My sister really managed to destroy the entire family with her lies and intrigues."
The song:
“Red Right Hand” by Nick Cave
:
When the murderous seducer drinks his beer in a kind of dart bar, Cave whispers these murderously seductive words:
“
On a gathering storm / Comes a tall handsome man / In a dusty black coat / With a red right hand «.
The review:
5 out of 10 points.
The statements of the inspectors are too rolled out, the vanity of the main suspect in this "crime scene" is too intrusive.
This narcissist is a pain in the ass.
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