youIn all fairy tales, there are few cheerful and hardly things of children’s dreams and wishes, but there is a particularly sad and dark thing.Grandma is Georg Büchner “Woyzeck” tells about it: From children who no longer have fathers or mothers, “Everything is dead, there is no one in the world. Everything is dead, and it looks for it day and night. Because there is no one on earth anymore, they want to go to heaven. .. .”
It is no coincidence that when telling the beginning and end of the film “Dear Thomas” by the writer and filmmaker Thomas Blasch, people immediately think of this fairy tale. There was a ten-year-old boy lying on the bed between his parents. Then his parents left. He got up, got into the car in his pajamas, and drove away. The world was empty and no one could see.
He came to an airport, he got on the plane, and the plane took off. I don’t know where it took off from, because at that moment, the camera was shaking and looking at the two boys lying on the bed. Their mother was reading fairy tales to them.
The world in his mind
In the end, he will be a man in his fifties who walks this way in the empty world. At some point in the middle of the movie, the actor Blasch’s brother Klaus once talked about the fact that his Wojcek has convinced people-which may be why this fairy tale will not be forgotten by you.
It is also very suitable for movies made by Andreas Kleinert based on Thomas Wendrich’s script. The reason this movie is so special is that it confidently uses its visual themes and changes them over and over again. What makes him interested in the life of a writer is not only his real, documentary narrative station, but also the world in his mind and the place where the novel appears.
“Dear Thomas” is a movie you rarely see in German cinemas. It will never be long 150 minutes. In the beautiful, high-contrast black and white, five minutes later seems to be imperative; and a writer who died in 2001 at the age of 56 has two and a half hours of his time. An important novel by a friend and playwright Klaus Pohl, or a 2018 documentary by Annekatrin Hendel.
The shock of post-war history
This film tells the story of a writer whose biography sweeps the post-war history of two German states.A great literary hope is to be a poet, playwright and director; he won the Bavarian Film Award for Best First Director with “Engel Os Eisen”, and from Franz Josef Strauss Yes, in his speech he thanked him for receiving training at the East German Film Academy-he was expelled from the school.
And who talked about the contradiction of the artist, “Whoever uses the country’s money to work, attack the country, who makes subversive outsiders the object of his work, and at the same time is the accomplice of those in power”. After 1989, he was silent and only translated Chekhov and Shakespeare; his book title “Son Died Before Father” has become a buzzword.
