This film is a very good start to talk about, why the suburbs of german cities are not yet burning (like many times in the US or France for example). A good occasion maybe would have been, the voting for the expropriation of a big housing enterprise in Berlin. It was hold in 2021 and since than ignored by the government.
You can realise perfectly with this film, that we are separated in our experiences of marginalisation. This is wanted and forced by the upperclass and we don't know how to unionise.
In one scene at the beginning of the film, you see a short cut of a news program and the than-chancellor of Germany. It's talked about his so called "Agenda 2010" which even increased the social gap in the last 20 years in Germany dramatically.
What Kids(1995) was for the US or, even more, what City of God(2002) was for Brazil, Sonne und Beton(2023) is for Germany. The most realistic german film apart from Systemsprenger(2019). No documentation could do better.
And like all this films, it hurts. It should. Watch it! Let it sink in and than watch it again! Everybody! As more far away the environment you grow up in is, from the one in the film, the more urgent.
You can realise perfectly with this film, that we are separated in our experiences of marginalisation. This is wanted and forced by the upperclass and we don't know how to unionise.
In one scene at the beginning of the film, you see a short cut of a news program and the than-chancellor of Germany. It's talked about his so called "Agenda 2010" which even increased the social gap in the last 20 years in Germany dramatically.
What Kids(1995) was for the US or, even more, what City of God(2002) was for Brazil, Sonne und Beton(2023) is for Germany. The most realistic german film apart from Systemsprenger(2019). No documentation could do better.
And like all this films, it hurts. It should. Watch it! Let it sink in and than watch it again! Everybody! As more far away the environment you grow up in is, from the one in the film, the more urgent.