SummaryBased on the novel of the same name, The Golden Glove follows notorious German serial killer Fritz Honkaa as he frequents his favorite bar, the Golden Glove, where schmaltzy German songs move the boozy bar hounds to tears and drinking is a reflex against pain and longing. There, Honka, a pitiful loser chasing after lonely women, keeps mo...
SummaryBased on the novel of the same name, The Golden Glove follows notorious German serial killer Fritz Honkaa as he frequents his favorite bar, the Golden Glove, where schmaltzy German songs move the boozy bar hounds to tears and drinking is a reflex against pain and longing. There, Honka, a pitiful loser chasing after lonely women, keeps mo...
The Golden Glove definitely isn’t for everyone, and even when divorced from its more transgressive scenes, it’s not exactly a pleasant viewing experience. But for those not repulsed to the point of leaving the theater, there’s a lonely, human heart at its center.
Whatever pleasure there is to be found in watching a film like The Golden Glove is in the intellectualizing, and the film does prompt a series of provocative questions about the implicit contract between artist and audience.
Finally someone saved the german movie from total insignificance. we are in some situation, where the cultural output couldnt be worse: government subsudies only support movies and series, which are hilarious. German movies therefore are always stupid comedy trash like "KeinOhrhasen", also the german system is so bad in its selection, that we can call Till Schweiger and Matthias Schweighöfer as our greatest actors. As german citizen, this generates several problems for the spectator: you cant watch a zombie movie without facepalming, when Schweighöfer once again totally messes everything up. You cant watch a Netflix series imitation like "barbarians" or "tribes of Europe" without sinking to the bottom. A general feeling of cultural inferiority defines the german perspective and the experiment to mimic american shows makes this situation even more awkward. I really want to thank Fatih Akin at this point, because he really shows a way out of the german misery which leads right into the real german misery, into the darkness of isolation in cities like Hamburg, Berlin and lots of other locations of the forgotten worlds of german history. The whole presentation shines with authenticity, the character portrayal seems so real, especially in the grim situations of this movie the spectator feels this situation has happened and still happens a thousand times all over the globe. The way is real, instead of another glossy hollywood mimic, Akin goes below into milieus, which do not exist in our construction and are everywhere in the same time. The forgotten worlds, the forgotten people, the smile of broken faces are nothing entertaining for the netflix community. Therefore i also have to thank all the bad critics of glossy american magazines and spectators: I could expect nothing less of the warped unworldly Netflix generation: your dislike underlines the real greatness of this movie.
Anyone who compares this to Zodiac should stop writing about movies, like seriously this is totally different kind of movie, accenting social hell of 1970s NDR and the characters who try to (in case of Fritz very violently) navigate through life without even glimpse of something better in the future. American critics should just learn a thing or two about history of Europe or simply just don't watch this.
As played with startlingly veracity by Jonas Dassler, there's nothing romantic about him: a deformed nose, shuffling gait, slack-jawed and with a misaligned eye, he looks exactly like the man responsible for the deaths of at least four women in 1970s Hamburg.
Akin may deserve credit for not flinching from the grotesque; other serial-killer-adjacent entertainments, like “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Zodiac” or “Mindhunter,” tend to concentrate on the cerebral mechanics of crime solving. But sordid details, undermined by snickers, aren’t in themselves illuminating.
For better or worse, Akin’s eye remains a remarkable thing, as he arranges even the most emptily nihilistic parts of The Golden Glove with the gravitas of arresting visual geometry, and casts every role to sick perfection. It’s just his vision that seems to be the problem.
The plot is fluid and realistic. Acting is successful. Colors, angles and locations are very interesting. It is a movie from which conclusions can be made. Intriguing and beautiful.
It's everything you could want from a serial killer film. The book, on the other hand, is an even more disturbing, tragic, and darkly comical masterpiece, though.
the main actor puts on a good show, and really makes you feel uneasy.
the movie itself, it's just uncomfortable to watch.. especially the sad bar that inhabits all of those social rejects and alcoholics.
the story is also very easy to anticipate, and to me, it's un-origianl and is very much like any other ted bundy-esque films, where you always kind of know what is going to happen.
wouldn't recommend watching.
Tldr: # - # - # - # Avoid this movie. Wasted time, worst movie I've ever seen - not so bad it's fun - just plain bad. And disgusting and disturbing - felt like puking a couple of times. Still haunted by gruesome depictions and scenes from this movie. I wish I could unsee it. # - # - # - # I'm a rather content, I've watched the film in its entirety, and i absolutely regret it. The hauntingly disgusting sex-scenes and gore still haunt me on a regular basis, even months after watching it... in the worst possible way. The movie feels like an anti hollywood movie - the way the movie is shot, the scenes, plots and characters and their respective arcs are handled in a very deviant way. But this movie goes to show, that different definetely doesn't equal good. Far from it.
I'd rate this movie 0 out of 10 - but I have to give credit to the actor playing the main role - he really nailed the disgusting character that the directors wanted him to play that well, that the thought of him still gives me nightmares.
In case any of the movie directors reads this:
If the best thing one can say about your movie is that it had an ending, then it is a sh!#ty movie.