4/10
Vague and ambiguous that asks more questions than the movie gives answers
19 May 2023
Warning: Spoilers
(2013) Nothing Bad Can Happen/ Tore tanzt (In Germany with English subtitles) PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA/ HORROR

Written and directed by Katrin Gebbe that has "Jesus Freaks" adult teen member, Tore (Julius Feldmeier) being baptized at a nearby lake before he's riding with his friend Owl. While tore was waiting for his friend who stepped out for a minute, he notices a man who was having problems with his pickup, and offers some assistance. The guy asks Tore and his friend, Owl whether he has cables, and when he tells him no, he does instead offer a prayer instead. And when the truck begins to work, Tore attempts to recruit him to join the "Jesus Freaks", and upon the driver going over there, as a result of Tore's epilepsy's , he then picks him up while he was lying on the ground shaking and carries him for an attempt to drive him to the hospital. And it is then we are introduced to Tore's new family household he is staying, starting with the father, Benno (Sascha Alexander Gersak), his wife, Asrid (Annika Kuhl) and his 17 year old daughter, Sanni (Gro Swantje Kohlhof) and his youngest son Dennis (Til-Niklas Theinert) what at first, may seem like a normal family, turn into a dysfunctional and perhaps sociapathic one.

At the end of the movie, it says that it is based on true events which is vague and ambiguous, baffling some viewers to speculate the possible article that it may or may not have came from, which is the murder of the mentally handicapped 29 year old "Werner H., Thies" or "Thies Fischer". Is far more interesting than the embellished movie that it was based on. That when you read the article why the Thies was killed, the motivation was purely financial, but when you like, watch the movie it was the gratification of the man of the household, enjoying torturing the teenage character, Tores he brought into the home, just because Tores character refuses to stand up for himself, as it was not so much about collecting money at all. And the blatant disregard of a killing of an animal in Germany, as far as I had read is three years in prison, but yet the movie somehow gives the notion that there is no punishment at all. And like, when you read the article that it may be based on, there wasn't even any indication that the torture and the killing of an animal actually happened at all. Meaning that the writer/ director, Katrin Gebbe may have made it up herself for the intention of inciting a reaction from the viewers. For as we see how awful the father, Benno treated a single person and an animal, it still does not answer the fact whether he has done this with another human being or animal, leaving viewers with more questions than answers.
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