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"Polizeiruf 110: Black Box" from Magdeburg: The big brainfuck before the summer break

2022-07-01T11:33:36.031Z


Who is the psycho here? The traumatized detective descends into the inner workings of a manslayer. "Police call" shocker about faded, suppressed and false memories.


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Claudia Michelsen as Commissioner Brasch: Please don't overdo it!

Photo: MDR/filmpool fiction/Conny Klein

Please have your mobile phone ready on the TV couch on Sunday, there are a lot of technical terms to google.

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, retrograde amnesia, and dissociative identity disorder are just a few.

The perpetrator in this thriller is apparently driven by repressed experiences from early childhood - and the investigator by an unresolved hostage situation from last year.

In short: the new "police call" is a blatant case of traumatic pressure fueling.

So much psychological knowledge and half-knowledge was pumped in that the plot almost threatens to burst.

But then he doesn't.

Which is perhaps also due to the fact that there is an explosion of violence just a few minutes after the opening credits.

Then, out of the blue, a delicate young man in a train compartment kills his counterpart with an emergency hammer.

Again and again he hits the other until the walls and windows of the compartment are spattered with blood.

On the deep ground of remembering

Inspector Doreen Brasch (Claudia Michelsen) is responsible for the investigation, and the horrors of the last case are still written in the shadows under her eyes.

Then she was tortured by a sadistic couple in their basement.

But instead of finally falling into the hands of the police psychologist named Dr.

To go brownish, she prefers to dive together with the young manslayer into the dull blue of his subconscious.

This is a "police call" for the complicated psychological diagnoses and the simple but efficient cinematic means (book: Zora Holtfreter, director: Ute Wieland).

The scenes in the first half are bathed in blue, so it feels a bit like you're in a body of water where you can't decide whether to dive any deeper because you might stumble upon something down there that you can't prefer not to know.

Of course, that doesn't apply to Brasch, who tries to get down to the bottom of the other person's disability so that she doesn't have to deal with her own traumata.

Did someone say Hitchcock?

This »police call« about repressed, faded and false memories also brings up almost faded memories of Alfred Hitchcock's psychiatric thriller »Spellbound«, where Ingrid Bergmann fought for the traumatized Gregory Peck.

But that may not be so much because of the similar narrative structure as because the slayer's actor, Eloi Christ, like Gregory Peck, has that sore look on his massive face.

Is the young man guilty or a victim of risky manipulations?

So there are a few reasons to stick with that brainfuck of "police call."

The most banal is: It is the last new Sunday thriller before the summer break.

Let's hope that Claudia Michaelsen's psycho inspector Brasch doesn't get the idea of ​​treating her problems over the long holidays.

It's hard to imagine her as a happy person and a good investigator at the same time.

But maybe that's more our problem than theirs.

Rating:

7 out of 10 points

"Police call 110: Black Box",

Sunday, 8:15 p.m., Das Erste

Source: spiegel

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