THEn a world made of conflicts and barriers, The German movie Brick just arrived on Netflix, It appears metaphorically effective to tell our uncertain time. A thriller in which a diabolical Wall traps an entire buildingpeople and things to the limit of madness. The added value is a very close -knit cast And an uncommon ability to always remain credible.
Brick, Plot of the thriller movie on Netflix
Tim (Matthias Schweighöfer), a talented video game programmer and his partner Olivia (Ruby O. Fee) they are experiencing a deep crisis due to the premature loss of their child. She would like to leave for Paris in order to forget the painful event while He continues to stall. One morning he tells him to want to leave him: prepare the suitcase, Opens the door but finds an insurmountable block of bricks in front.
The two, like this Like the other neighbors of the apartment, they literally find alive walled up. The entrance door and windows are completely obstructed by bricks of a very strange magnetic material, which attracts forks and metal objects. Together with the couple who live next to their accommodation, they devise a plan.
In order to go out they have to reach the basement in which there is an old anti -aircraft refuge connected directly with the outside. The only way is to get on the floors and drop floor by floor, apartment after apartment. At each stepthe small group meets other inhabitants of the building And he discovers increasingly disturbing details.
In one there is a corpse completely without hands, which have been severed and then hidden. The spirit of survival creates first solidarity and then amplifies conflicts, the paranoia and gestures of violence. But who built the wall? The conjectures are wasted: someone thinks it is a trap of the owner of the building. Others imagine that it is aliens’ fault.
Matthias Schweighöfer and Ruby O.Fee in “Brick” (Netflix)
Brick: Is the wall prison or salvation? (Spoiler)
The mysterious Yuri, Former policeman on leave who does not live there but had come to find a friend, a programmer who died a few minutes earlier for a heart attack, It has the most suggestive theory. The wall would not be a trap but a defense system. Created by the “New World Order” To avoid contamination caused by a chemical war. A real air filtering system and a life -saving.
When they find cameras installed inside the smoke detectors, everyone thinks they have ended up instead in a perverse game. Arrived with difficulty at the refuge, they discover with dismay that even underground the wall obstructed the only step with the rest of the world. Thus, they are forced to go back until Yuri’s friend’s apartment, looking for explanations and clues.
Here they access a secret chamber with monitors connected to the video cameras and many conspiracy books on the next world war between China and America. TIM finds the way to unlock the system of an application that could open a passage in the wall. Their desire for freedom clashes with Yuri’s paranoia. The man begins to threaten everyone, convinced that the real danger is really out there. He even comes to kill in order not to bring them the wall closer. Remained the only survivors, Tim and Olivia find a way to go out and make a disconcerting discovery to say the least.
Brickreview of the Netflix movie
In Brickorltre to all the perfect characteristics of the thriller genre, To which are added science fiction touches, You can find the pessimist and paranoid echo de The Lord of the flies by William Golding. The large group of protagonists tries to self -regulate and collaborate thanks to the right rules of the civil world. The dark side and the fear of the individual instead create real breaks in the points of greatest narrative tension.
There is no lack of suggestions comparable to The Mist – The fog by Stephen King. Here the enemy is not the threatening monster positioned outside but it is an internal, creeping, restless and equally dangerous malaise. Although evident psychological references are among the couple’s conflicts, With the comparison all too evident between the wall of incommunicability of the two protagonists and the physical barrier with the outside, the film is limited to describing the problem superficially.
This original story to become really great would have needed a greater dose of courage. The director and screenwriter of the film, Philiph Koch (Play) has maintained too much balance even in those moments when the exaggeration – from conflicts to twists and turns – could really have made the difference between a discreet film and an excellent one.
The real protagonist of the film “Brick” (Netflix)
The cast and location
One of the strengths is certainly the cast of well -assorted actorsfunctional to the story and capable of transmitting fear, fragility and self -loss with one’s own dose of madness. THEThe main merit goes to the protagonist, Matthias Schweighöfer. A versatile actor, recently seen in Oppenheimer In the role of the German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg.
The serene face and the Olympic calm in which he faces the marital crisis and imprisonment are the perfect counterpart of that human chaos in which the whole building is located. Murathan Muslu,(Sissi) He plays his cards well in the role of Yuri, the crazy and eager opponent of the freedom of others.
The movie He was shot entirely in the Czech RepublicIn particular, the location was identified in the Barrandov Studios studios in Prague.
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