I do gotta say that these reviews made me watch this movie and gotta continue with this; they left very little for the imagination. Everything was definitely here. The gay lover, the sexually deprived wife, the bisexual (if that's what you want to refer to him as) and the manipulative kids.
It doesn't take long to figure out who's playing who, was Markus (Sten Jacobs) playing the kid or was Johannes playing Markus. The director who also wrote this didn't sugar-coat one bit to realize just who was using who playing pretty much hard to get. The wife Christine (Anna Altmann) who is sexually deprived and would do anything to get her fix on sex. The daughter Elizabeth (Nina Splettstonber) gives little respect to her mom but idolizes her father (Markus). Yet to get his own fix for same sex pleasure has his secret lover. I say without hesitation that this movie didn't hold much back but with such character backstorys a tighter written storyline would have been a good direction to go in. Now above all that the main character (Markus) allows himself to be a pedophile which only heightens the already juicy story and of course blackmail.
It was obvious that the kid (Johannes) was using (Markus) from the beginning to help his financially hurting dad. WOW if only this was a better made movie with bigger names and a real budget. I was however sucked into this movie easily and the characters themselves were somewhat interesting though they could have been portrayed better.
What hurts the movie is too much for reason, the wife who would do anything for Markus to notice her. And attempt's she tries to commit suicide or seduce other men. The one topic I really didn't see was and though it's mentioned in the description (bisexual) because he was married to a woman. I saw that as a marriage of convenience to further his career and nothing more. It's plainly pointed out that between Markus and Christine there is no love.
What I hated about this was the acting was more or less amateurish and the plot kinda weak for the story it told. You can see that the actor's weren't really trying to convey the message at hand. The weak plotline was so busy throwing new issues that the writer failed to let the characters grow. What I liked was we see how a family is torn apart when one is not in it for the love. In all I feel that somehow it does tell the story on a borderline to protect the kid actors and yet keep the story moving. Finally the movie definitely moves and prevents dragging on.
Sadly this one will get a lot of mixed reviews due to the subject matters this movie presents and not for the story it tells. I gave it 8 out of 10 as I mentioned earlier that if it were a stronger movie with better actors could have taken it over the top.
It doesn't take long to figure out who's playing who, was Markus (Sten Jacobs) playing the kid or was Johannes playing Markus. The director who also wrote this didn't sugar-coat one bit to realize just who was using who playing pretty much hard to get. The wife Christine (Anna Altmann) who is sexually deprived and would do anything to get her fix on sex. The daughter Elizabeth (Nina Splettstonber) gives little respect to her mom but idolizes her father (Markus). Yet to get his own fix for same sex pleasure has his secret lover. I say without hesitation that this movie didn't hold much back but with such character backstorys a tighter written storyline would have been a good direction to go in. Now above all that the main character (Markus) allows himself to be a pedophile which only heightens the already juicy story and of course blackmail.
It was obvious that the kid (Johannes) was using (Markus) from the beginning to help his financially hurting dad. WOW if only this was a better made movie with bigger names and a real budget. I was however sucked into this movie easily and the characters themselves were somewhat interesting though they could have been portrayed better.
What hurts the movie is too much for reason, the wife who would do anything for Markus to notice her. And attempt's she tries to commit suicide or seduce other men. The one topic I really didn't see was and though it's mentioned in the description (bisexual) because he was married to a woman. I saw that as a marriage of convenience to further his career and nothing more. It's plainly pointed out that between Markus and Christine there is no love.
What I hated about this was the acting was more or less amateurish and the plot kinda weak for the story it told. You can see that the actor's weren't really trying to convey the message at hand. The weak plotline was so busy throwing new issues that the writer failed to let the characters grow. What I liked was we see how a family is torn apart when one is not in it for the love. In all I feel that somehow it does tell the story on a borderline to protect the kid actors and yet keep the story moving. Finally the movie definitely moves and prevents dragging on.
Sadly this one will get a lot of mixed reviews due to the subject matters this movie presents and not for the story it tells. I gave it 8 out of 10 as I mentioned earlier that if it were a stronger movie with better actors could have taken it over the top.