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"Devil"

("Devil", USA 2010 Directed by: John Erick Dowdle)

The beginning is beautiful: As flies Tak Fujimoto camera unleashed on the Delaware River to Philadelphia, is across the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, flying over churches, glittering glass facades and swanky high-rises - and is the whole Time, the world literally upside down. For Fujimoto, the most talented cinematographer include "The Silence of the Lambs" ("The Silence of the Lambs, 1991), his camera has flipped 180 degrees. Also fits the content is, "Devil" but by the presence of the devil in our modern world today. And we know that the Lord of the Flies so wrong everything into its opposite. So why not run at least the opening credits over the world to plunge the Bottom Up, heaven and earth, North and South, East and West exchange, until, in a dark movie theater before the big scope screen dizzy? Then begins the real plot of "Devil" - and everything is suddenly quite conventional, well-behaved, almost conventional.

The plot is quickly told: From the 35th Floor of a skyscraper falls for a man to suicide. Shortly after, five people remain in an elevator of the same building stuck: the Afghanistan veteran Tony (Logan Marshall-Green), the temporary security man Ben (Bokeem Woodbine), mattresses representative Vince (Geoffrey Arend), the young Sarah (Bojana Novakovic), and an older wife (Jenny O'Hara). All attempts by the technician to put the elevator back on track to fail. Meanwhile, the trapped people are attacked one by one under mysterious circumstances. Soon dies first. While from the outside, a police officer (Chris Messina) is trying to help the prisoners realize the besieged, that among them is the devil incarnate ...

"Devil" is interesting because it related to Rodrigo Cortes' "Buried" ("Buried - live buried", 2010) and Danny Boyle's soon-starting "127 Hours" an extremely claustrophobic situation with the means of Cinemas and seeks to represent in widescreen format. This director John Erick Dowdle is certainly far from the result of his contemporaries away. Cortés had about the chutzpah to make his film entirely to play in a coffin (and on top of that, he managed to stage the likely first action sequence set in a wooden box only). Such self-imposed restriction must remain simple gimmick and excess, and is of a mainstream movie like "Devil" hardly to be expected. Dowdle choose more conventional storytelling in parallel story lines: one in there, all the others out there and we, the omniscient camera, thank. But at least he manages to beat out the unpleasant situation in the elevator maximum capital, even though he may be the greatest torture of prisoners - a deeply religious Mexican technicians (Jacob Vargas) hammered the trapped for hours with prayers in English - not staged for what it is: an imposition.

"Devil" has a lot of the American EC comics and the U.S. television series "Twilight Zone" from the 1950s and as many of the films of M. Night Shyamalan, who here acts as a producer. This includes the Christian moralizing, which literally taking the superstitious belief in the devil personified, the simplicity of the story - which is actually a strength of the film - and the many clichés. Of course, the policeman a traumatic past, without this sort of film never manages, of course, all five victims are somehow to blame for their situation, and obviously recognizes the first Mexican-engineer the true nature of the situation - a structurally racist Hollywood stereotype that ethnic minorities in principle assumes a close to mysticism, the former owner. Only the happy ending surprised you would expect but rather a vicious final punch. With genuine "devil's films" such as Roman Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby" ("Rosemary's Baby" in 1968), William Friedkin's "The Exorcist" ("The Exorcist", 1973) and Ti West's "The House of the Devil" (2009) and can will "Devil" can not match. Rather, higher nonsense like Taylor Hackford's "The Devil's Advocate" ("The Devil's Advocate", 1997). But somehow makes the old-fashioned, smooth Hollywood style of the film will have fun again. Although "Devil" is more for a rotten Sunday afternoon before the TV as a movie.

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Devil
OT: Devil
USA 2010 - 80 min.
Director: John Erick Dowdle - writer: Brian Nelson, M. Night Shyamalan - Production: Sam Mercer, M. Night Shyamalan - photography: Tak Fujimoto - section: Elliot Greenberg - Music: Fernando Velázquez - Rental: Universal - Certificate: over 16 years - actors / actresses: Chris Messina, Logan Marshall Green, Geoffrey Arend, Bojana Novakovic, Jenny O'Hara, Bokeem Woodbine, Jacob Vargas, Matt Craven, Josh Peace, Caroline Dhavernas - German Cinema Release: 13/01/2011