Ramsauers directorial debut is a fresh, straight-forward crime story: he doesn't try to stuff too much into the plot and lets a strong cast drive through a pretty conventional plot. The female lead stars also in a very successful Austrian crime show ("SCHNELL ERMITTELT").
The other commentar complained about how the film "portraits" a disorder: - Spoiler alert -
Well, first of all, I think the disorder is portrayed quite well here. Second, no one suggests that EVERYONE with that disorder is dangerous. This is the story about one individual. Third, it's not a crime movie's job to give a medically correct assessment of a disorder or, as the commentary implies, promote tolerance and understanding for a certain disorder. To give the movie a 1 star rating based on a weird 'political correctness' idea is absurd.
In my view, it is part of equality and inclusiveness to have roles like this in all genres. That may include, as it does here, that a person with a disability is a bad guy and/ or harms others. That isn't "irresponsible" towards anyone, it is just a fact of life that good and bad guys may have any color/ gender/ religion/ origin/ with abilities/ disabilities etc. And it's been a thing in movie history forever - remember Hitchcock's PSYCHO? But maybe this masterpiece would not be produced in times of extreme political correctness anymore.
End of spoilers -
Anyway, enjoy the film and educate yourself - elsewhere - about mental disorders, too. But know the difference between a movie and a documentary.
The other commentar complained about how the film "portraits" a disorder: - Spoiler alert -
Well, first of all, I think the disorder is portrayed quite well here. Second, no one suggests that EVERYONE with that disorder is dangerous. This is the story about one individual. Third, it's not a crime movie's job to give a medically correct assessment of a disorder or, as the commentary implies, promote tolerance and understanding for a certain disorder. To give the movie a 1 star rating based on a weird 'political correctness' idea is absurd.
In my view, it is part of equality and inclusiveness to have roles like this in all genres. That may include, as it does here, that a person with a disability is a bad guy and/ or harms others. That isn't "irresponsible" towards anyone, it is just a fact of life that good and bad guys may have any color/ gender/ religion/ origin/ with abilities/ disabilities etc. And it's been a thing in movie history forever - remember Hitchcock's PSYCHO? But maybe this masterpiece would not be produced in times of extreme political correctness anymore.
End of spoilers -
Anyway, enjoy the film and educate yourself - elsewhere - about mental disorders, too. But know the difference between a movie and a documentary.