... but I simply wasn't so taken by Absolute Giganten. True, it's a likeable movie, I didn't regret watching it, but I simply wasn't swept away by it either.
The story (MINOR SPOILERS): three friends and their stylish '74 Ford Granada spend their last night together before one of them embarks on a ship (as if it wasn't the late 1990ies but around 1950 ...) -- and basically the director takes it from there. The trio have a few big city adventures, there is lotsa emotion, some lovelorn craving the pretty girl on the block, and some drugs are involved which leads to the generic 7 - minutes - in - intensive - care scene and makes everyone realize the fragility of life, or something.
I still could have liked this flick if it wasn't for the dialogue ... in the final scene the sunrise finds the three friends and the pretty girl sitting around their wrecked Granada and Floyd's (Frank Giering) voice from the off tells us how he was once watching the fireworks as a little kid, and his mum gave him a sparkler, and the firework was so big and he felt so small and the sparkler was so small as well, and there is supposed to be some deep, heartfelt, meaningful message hidden in his narrative but I seem to have missed it.
I see Absolute Giganten as the type of beginner's movie where the director gets a chance to hone his skills before moving on to more challenging material, and the audience gets to watch a pretty plain but enjoyable story. It's a fair deal, as long as you are not expecting the German answer to "Giant".
The story (MINOR SPOILERS): three friends and their stylish '74 Ford Granada spend their last night together before one of them embarks on a ship (as if it wasn't the late 1990ies but around 1950 ...) -- and basically the director takes it from there. The trio have a few big city adventures, there is lotsa emotion, some lovelorn craving the pretty girl on the block, and some drugs are involved which leads to the generic 7 - minutes - in - intensive - care scene and makes everyone realize the fragility of life, or something.
I still could have liked this flick if it wasn't for the dialogue ... in the final scene the sunrise finds the three friends and the pretty girl sitting around their wrecked Granada and Floyd's (Frank Giering) voice from the off tells us how he was once watching the fireworks as a little kid, and his mum gave him a sparkler, and the firework was so big and he felt so small and the sparkler was so small as well, and there is supposed to be some deep, heartfelt, meaningful message hidden in his narrative but I seem to have missed it.
I see Absolute Giganten as the type of beginner's movie where the director gets a chance to hone his skills before moving on to more challenging material, and the audience gets to watch a pretty plain but enjoyable story. It's a fair deal, as long as you are not expecting the German answer to "Giant".