Wildwechse

Year: 1973

Duration: 01:32:51

Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Actors: Harry Baer, Marquard Bohm, Rudolf Waldemar Brem

Language: German

Country: Germany

Also known as: Jail Bait, Wild Game Crossing, A Encruzilhada das Bestas Humanas

Description: Hanni 14 years. And she is carried away by Franz, who is 5 years older. Needless to say that the society and mainly parents “youngsters” against their relationship. And when these two face the problem of the imminent birth of a child, their idea of morality completely collapses…

Review: One of the most obscure films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells of the eternal: the problem of understanding fathers and children was, is and will be one of the most acute for humanity. It is known that the Director himself was a very difficult childhood, and he was brought up by a mother who allowed himself to lead in the house of the young lovers, in addition, already in the early years of the future genius became acquainted with the criminal world, Munich. In his memoirs Fassbinder was told that ideally, children should grow like flowers”, but the reality, as we know, was far from ideal.

What flowers to carry the main character of this film, 14-year-old Hanni, to address the audience, but the closest thing she has to a dangerous species of poisonous plants, which surround their prey and begin to sting. But as long as she lives peacefully with her parents, a perfectly ordinary family, not very rich, not very happy, conservative, in General, very average.

Everything changes when the first desire not for years ripened Hanni translated in French, in the back seat of a motorcycle which she finds understanding and happiness. Still the little problem of her own age that uniquely identifies the data relationships as illegitimate. Against the modern Romeo and Juliet respectable German society is practically a United front, and at the head of the father of her, but she does not want to obey his father’s orders and begins to double and even triple the game.

In General in this film, perhaps, Goodies and no, and the negative is provocators Hanni, even seemingly quite far from the image of young nymphets. Hanni simultaneously embodies all the worst from adults and children – it is cruel, capricious, frivolous, but already has experience and knows how to manipulate people. And it’s not the virgin Mary, persistently flashing in the frame, rather it is the child of Satan, who clearly had a hand in this story. Therefore, the cross hanging from the neck of the main character is nothing more than a cruel mockery of the audience.

The film intentionally contains explicit scenes that emphasize the immorality of events and cause a rather unpleasant feeling, interspersed with pictures of the meat-processing factory, which employs the main character. Similar techniques Fassbinder not once did with the audience, torturing her long fixed plans, the lack of scenery. Here we are waiting for test of adolescent eroticism and family scenes.

Conflicts occur periodically, and during one of them, as the long-awaited investigation, father severely beat her. It is not forgiving and goes on the same “game trail”, and that is literally translated German title of the film. And of course, sincere indignation caused by the fact that the goal in this case, moreover, does not justify the means, because the main characters don’t love, but only hormones, libido, which quickly passes. But the consequences of thoughtless actions can be truly terrible…

What ultimately morality? All you need to do in time to raise children including, although it is often already too late. Mostly so that impressions of the film as a whole is very heavy, which, fortunately, does not negate the stunning style of the German Director.

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