I guess The Bank Robber and the Loonybin Nurse wouldn't have fit on a marquee, but it would have been a much more accurate title.This movie sucked.
I bought it a while back, when Borders started getting rid of all their movies, because it was a German film and I had only seen a couple of those, mainly M, Wings of Desire, and Run, Lola, Run which stars the same actress and was directed by the same guy, Tom Twyker. He also did Perfume which may have been his magnum opus.
Sissi (Franka Potente) is a young nurse at a psychiatric hospital. She gets run over by a truck while escorting a blind kid across the street. A mysterious stranger (who indirectly caused the truck driver to be distracted) climbs under and gives her an emergency tracheotomy, saving her life. Afterwards, her world just isn't the same so she tracks him down and finds his name is Bodo Reimer (Benno Furman), an ex-army semi-drifter who lives with his brother Walter (Joachim Krol). The pair have a plan to rob a bank and escape to Australia. Sissi manages to fuck that up for them and the heist goes wrong. She hides Bodo in the nuthouse where she not only works, it's where she was raised. That should explain a lot.
I don't often notice the score of a movie, except in a "there's a score" kind of way but this one absolutely ruined the movie. It might have been a decent action film if the score hadn't been some weird dreamy piece that's so disconnected from the acting that it was like it belonged to a completely different movie. It was a very deliberate thing on Twyker's part and I have no doubt that it meant something to him. Whatever that was was completely lost on me, however. Did not enjoy.
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