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Posted by Bojebuck at Tue, 5.January 2010 - 11:29
For all fans who can not wait to see the movie: Videoload offers the first 8 minutes of the movie FOR FREE. Enjoy and let us know what you think about it...!
http://www.videoload.de/c/21/18/12/28/21181228
I want to see the 8 minutes preview, but is it gone? I don't know German, therefore I didn't know where to click on the website.
Hi dear all,
i`m sitting here,ach scheiß(verzeihung),ich schreib doch besser in deutsch.
Wie gesagt, ich sitz hier mit Schlüsselbeinbruch,schreib nur mit links einhändig, in kurzen Hosen in Thailand (nähe Chiang Rai), und bin auf Euren Film im Internet gestoßen.
Wow!!!!!
Kambodscha, wie auch Thailand zum "Westen" ist kurz gesagt :"Samesame but different"
Ich sah in diesem kurzen Clip so viel eigenes an Erfahrung, das ich schon jetzt weiß, was ich nächste Woche, nach "7Wochen zu Hause in SaiNam", in Berlin machen werde.
Ich geh mit meiner Frau, Napien ins Kino.
Super echt!
Den Satz, und Titel Eures Film`s, verwenden viele Farang hier untereinander, und auch im erklären gegenüber Einheimischen, wie es denn im "goldenen Westen so sei".
Einfach genial!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Na denn, viel Erfolg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Und danke für die Tränen in meinen Augen, schon bei den wenigen Auszügen, die ich sehen konnte.
Taschentücher nehm ich auf jeden Fall schon mal mit ins Kino!
Gruß
"Lung Tomadt"
In enjoyed it very much! Thanks for the reply, I`m looking forward to it!
Dear Paul,
wow thanks for taking the time and writing such a long and detailed review.
You are right- they are not exactly the first 8minutes of the movie and we did shorten it a little bit. (Very good, you found out the missing part) We hope you are stil curious and enjoyed it.
Only 15 days more and everybody can see the movie in German cinemas..
But it`s not the real beginning of the movie, isn`t it. In various reviews, it was described, the movie opens with a scene between Ben and Sreykeo, where she tells him that she got HIV.
Are their parts missing. Sometimes it seems like it. In one moment the boys are arriving in a town, in the next one they are in Phnom Phen.
Well I liked the club scene, it really gives you a feeling of loneliness in a middle of dozen people. I don`t know, it`s building up atmosphere, alright, but I don`t know, for me personally it`s a little bit too funny. Basically the entire situation of two german boys in cambodia is described in a comedic way, almost slapstick. The boys appear completely fearless, always comfortable, even when they think they gonna be robbed.
I really liked the beginning, especially David Kross` "I don`t shoot the cow!" line, it`s really nice to meet Ben like this, you immediatly root for him and excuse him when he`s doing some of the more stupid things.
What I really liked is that Buck is demanding a more adult performance of Kross, because Kross himself brings so much softness in his performance without stressing it too much, that it`s very well balanced. Ben is a very quiet guy, a very normal guy, but not over the top sensible - better, his sensitive side is clearly visible but somehow inactive, he`s in adventure mode. And this is really there.
But I really liked Stefan Konarkse. He managed it, that you still take him somewhat seriousley, even after his over the top dumb suggestion to do a LSD trip on the killing fields which is basically on the same level than taking fotos of the prison cells and execution places in a concentration camp like a fucking tourist (what a classmate of mine did actually several years ago). Overall he sems to be a typical Buck character.
Well, as far as I can judge by now, I like several things and several things I dislike. I don`t, somehow it seems in the beginning scenes the cambodian people are always the idiots. They demand to shoot a cow, they are out of fuel, they want to rob german guys, they cannot point a certain direction.
In the club this changes to a general feeling of loneliness, which I like. I don`t know, probably it`s just a buildup for the sequences when Ben gets closer to Sreykeo and to the cambodian spirit as a whole and gets a look into the culture.
But thank you very much for this unique preview!
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