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Janneke (Margarita Broich, M.) and Brix (Wolfram Koch) during an interrogation: Authenticity is overrated.
Photo: Bettina Müller / HR
The scenario:
Poetry and truth.
After the murder of a 19-year-old writer, Janneke (Margarita Broich) and Brix (Wolfram Koch) are confronted with a case which, in order to resolve it, not only has to investigate the author's environment, but also to search for clues in her current novel.
A hardcore undertaking, as the author, in her lively prose, has transformed her own educated middle-class existence into the social housing existence of her friend Nellie (Lena Urzendowsky).
The highlight:
Authenticity is overrated.
In a clever, sensual and sometimes even funny way, this »crime scene« plays with the current literary phenomenon of autofiction, in which the literary relevance of a book is linked to the biographical reality of the author.
The picture:
Commissioner with a book in front of her nose.
Here Janneke buries herself with Brix in the pain and excess stories of the dead writer - which are then artfully visualized in the film.
Do not believe everything you see here!
The dialogue:
Brix with the overwhelmed mother of Nellie on the homicide squad balcony, smoking break during the grueling interrogation.
Mother: "Strong mothers don't give up, they cry for a moment and then they go to war."
Commissioner: "If it is too difficult, you are too weak."
The song:
"I Like It" by Cardi B. The Latino rap is on when the investigative duo stop by the social building.
Nellie's very little sister adds a very professional Twerk number to the song.
The soundtrack here is as playful and multi-layered as the »Tatort« as a whole: there is a filigree, specially composed orchestral score for full hip-hop tracks.
The review:
9 out of 10 points.
Harsh, poetic, ambiguous: this »crime scene« is a nice attack on the disdainful reality that otherwise often prevails in German television thrillers.
If you need more psychologically complex TV material, then watch the series »Freud«, which celebrates its free TV premiere on ZDFneo this weekend.
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