Film: "So Close"

Film: So Close, Director: Emily Wallgren, Ina Holmes

Kritik Criticis

So close yet so far Regi: Emelie Wallgren, Ina Holmqvist Director: Emily Wallgren, Ina Holmes Medverkande: Angela, Arina Cast: Angela, Arina Sverige 2010 Folkets Bio Sweden 2010 Folkets Bio "So Close" is a renowned and award-winning Swedish documentary about two teenage girls, Angela and Arina, who share a passionate obsession for the German band Tokio Hotel. They wait outside the hotel in Stockholm when the band is on a visit, screaming hysterically, cry and share all the emotions that overflow. The film is a very low-key documentary. It feels like we as spectators are not much more than a "fly on the wall" in these girls' conversations about Tokio Hotel in particular and life in general. Then they go to Berlin to meet with at least one of the members who wax figure at Madame Tussaud's, it feels like you are part of the travel companion. In this way, the film has distinct qualities. It is intimate and revealing, yet respectful. It comes very close but still respecting the limits. The bottom line is this Son of mutual trust. The directors (a strange concept for documentaries) have said that they themselves have been boy bands fans and they can certainly recognize some of this in these girls' feelings and behaviors. The phenomenon of the heady obsession for the young popgudarna people seem almost timeless, or perhaps even forever. I'm not concerned at all that this phenomena. It stops at the intimate level of insight and do not establish any further questions about the psychological processes or needs. "So Close" is a charming film. The success, not least because the two main characters are so laid back and does not seem to mind sharing their thoughts and feelings. Perhaps this has to do with their own contemporary culture is so overfed with reality shows, "reality" TV, The private sphere blurring more and more and is mixed up with an ambivalent public, consisting of exposure as an existential justification. The film is of course also about the human need to let your imagination adopt escapist forms. The girls dream of a meeting with a wax figure while wandering about in Rågsved or sitting at home eating chips and reading a newspaper "Okay". But even this aspect, the purely compensatory escapist, concerned only "en passant" in a conversation here or there. What I may lack in the movie is just concrete issues. Now, "So close" only a voyeuristic little mini-trip. I think certainly that is how both the participating girls and producing the girls wanted it. Maybe the stuff to another movie? Obsession is obviously a deeply rooted human need and it takes almost always verges on the absurd expression. link here