women have the Fax thick. The tackle against the contempt, plundering and poisoning the natural. This Topos company is in the cinema, increasingly is capable of. The heroine, Halla, from “Against the current” no second Erin Brockovich. The environmental activist mutated paralegal has set Steven Soderbergh in 2000, even in the exceptionally beautiful form of Julia Roberts is an Academy-award-winning monument.
unlike Brockovich, the Icelander, Halla is not limited to research on high heels, the consequences of drinking water contamination by a group. The fortified choir Director from Reykjavik, unvarnished, and with their 50 years, not quite dewy, blowing out of the mass of carbon dioxide-emitting aluminium industry, in a sense, the blast furnace. By sabotaging the bow and arrow, or with a Flex and explosives, the power supply, transmission lines short-circuits and electricity poles shifting.
This self-defense-born criminal energy Ökomärchen put the heroine in Agnieszka Holland’s “The track”. In the between Mystery and Ökothriller oscillating the Film, the retired engineer Janina Duszejko, played by the wonderfully weathered Agnieszka mandate operates as a radical animal rights activist by decimated in a town on the Polish-Czech border, the local stock of hunters. At the Berlinale in 2017, Holland was awarded with the Silver bear.
fun in the abstract Icelandic landscapes
The Icelandic filmmaker Benedikt Erlingsson, his athletic climate warrior, now as a kind of Robina Hood or the hunt-goddess Diana. Halla, the plans to each of their attacks meticulously, and in the basement of her house there is a red line workshop, fought not only the industry, but also the high-tech Equipment of their pursuers with a bow and arrow. On the hunt for the “mountain woman”, which dominates in the small Island quickly the television news, the your international Deals, fearing the end of the Alliance of state power and the group of helicopters, infrared cameras, special operations commands, as well as toxic whispering drones in the deserted highlands. As with a Lasso Halla captures one of the nasty Spähgeräte by arrow and rope and smashed it with relish.
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makes It a joy to see the great Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir like in the Action movies about the endless hump moss plains and in glacial ice made it difficult to round pike. Cinematographer Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson has a lot of fun to put the abstract Icelandic landscapes in the scene. And that Benedikt Erlingsson committed to the monosyllabic Scandinavian scarcity-school of the brothers Kaurismäki, was the predecessor Of “people and horses”. From the dramedy of 2014 now in the Ökothriller imported Running Gag in the shape of a Spanish cycle tourists, the captors again and again accidentally in the catches, grinds, however, and soon.
Significantly better in the musical alienation effect works. A Piano, Tuba, and percussion Band accompanied – for the protagonist of invisible – the scenes. And three Ukrainian women who sing, huskily plaintive folk songs, act in Hallas of Conscience as a Greek chorus.
The script sticks to black-and-white-drawings
the living alone woman is offered a four-year after the long-forgotten petition for Adoption, suddenly, a little girl from the Ukraine, brings out the activist in trouble. You can only help the unshakable Confidence of twin sister Ása, who plays the finely spun Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir also, but with the necessary spiritual habit. Nevertheless, maternity and militant Eco-tolerated activism is bad, the concern for the next Generation Hallas fight plastic legitimized as the images of Sintfluten and droughts, the flicker on the TV at home.
“Against the current”, in spite of the burning matter and a great heroine to conflict-free to be superficially told that remains is the script, the clichéd black-and-white drawings of sticks. How harmful to the environment by the geothermal energy professional industry, one learns from the Director, for example, only from Interviews. Also Hallas objectives in the fight against the group remain vague. And that a woman who plans so meticulously to their attacks, is instructed to flee from their pursuers on chance – in the Person of a gnarly farmers – is mau. But as the saying goes? Where there is danger, there Salvation grows too. Whether this is also true for climate change?
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Ökomärchen “The track” in the cinema, A little man stands in the forest
Christiane Peitz
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