Nobody
2021USA★ 7.93.5 pt match
Both films sit with rage and figuring out who you are. Both circle the same ground: class and money. The feel is the same: brutal, tense, and escalating.
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
2008GermanyLanguage: deDirected by Uli Edel★ 7
Available in English: subtitled
When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.
Themes and style
Tone
bleakbrutaltensecold and detached
Pacing
relentlessescalatingepisodic
Story
rebellionpursuitunraveling
Emotion
figuring out who you arerageloss of innocenceguiltloyalty under pressure
Themes
life under oppressioncorrupt institutionsfamily wounds passed downclass and moneynational identity
Feel
exhaustingcerebraldiscussion startergut punch
Violence
graphicWhere to watch
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The Dark Knight
2008USA★ 8.53 pt match
What ties these together is guilt, loyalty under pressure, and figuring out who you are. Both circle the same ground: corrupt institutions, life under oppression, and class and money. Same energy: bleak, tense, escalating, and relentless.