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Why so much hype?

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The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Interesting commentary on the damage done by loose morals developed from the late 60s. From the selfishness of hippie moms to sex crazed men going to special resorts under the pretense of spiritual enlightenment, only to get laid. The sexual "liberation" of the late 60s only led to selfishness and loneliness.Outstanding acting, particularly Bleibtreu and Potente did a great job. Also, the film provides a guilty pleasure as you can take a peek into how things work at various sex parties, it seemed quite realistic.While depressing at times the film can also be absolutely hilarious, at the same time. This can be accredited to Houellebecq who I've become more and more interested in.That said the movie is flawed, it feels unbalanced and missing too much. I was already interested in reading the novel and I definitely felt there were too many things left out, for instance I never saw the apparent marriage of Bruno. The film is quite rushed and ends rather abruptly. The scientific part also clearly played a second violin and didn't make much sense, as the subject of cloning and making a new human was too superficially touched upon.All in all a good way to spend 100 minutes if you are interested in a confronting view on the depressing inheritance the sexual revolution has left for us.

German screenwriter, journalist and director Oskar Roehler's third feature film which he wrote, is an adaptation of a novel from 1998 called "Atomised" by French author and filmmaker Michael Houellebecq. It premiered In competition at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival in 2006, was shot on locations in Germany and is a German production which was produced by German filmmaker and producer Bernd Eichinger (1949-2011) and producer Oliver Berben. It tells the story about a troubled literature teacher named Bruno Klement who lives with his wife and their infant in Berlin and a driven scientist named Michael Klement who is resigning as the head of a biotechnical institute. Subtly and precisely directed by German filmmaker Oskar Roehler, this finely tuned fictional tale which is narrated by and from the two protagonist's viewpoints, draws an intriguing portrayal of two half-brothers and their conflicting relationships with women. While notable for it's naturalistic and various milieu depictions, sterling production design by production designer Ingrid Henn, cinematography by cinematographer Karl-Friedrich Koschncik, costume design by costume designer Esther Walz and use of music, this character-driven and narrative-driven story depicts two interrelated studies of character and contains a great score by German composer Martin Todsharow.This romantic, humorous and psychological drama from the late 2000s which examines the notion of artificial reproduction of organisms without sexual contact and the lives of two men in their late 30s, is impelled and reinforced by it's fragmented narrative structure, substantial character development, atmospheric flashback scenes and the remarkable acting performances by German actors Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Ulmen and German actresses Martina Gedeck, Franka Potente and Nina Hoss. A mysterious, literary, sensual and somewhat scientific narrative feature which gained, among other awards, the Silver Bear for Best Actor Moritz Bleibtreu at the 56th Berlin Film Festival in 2006.

I enjoyed this adaptation way more than the book, which -- despite all the pseudo-intellectual hype that was raised about it -- was mainly about pornography, perversion, and a "philosophy" that can be formulated in short as: unless you are perfect, beautiful and brilliant, better kill yourself. And even if you are, there is ample reason to get depressed.By the way, it is not true that the director didn't try to talk to Houellebecq. But when he did the latter was seriously under drugs and hard to communicate with.In contrast, this film surely picked out some of the more digestible parts of the book and luckily didn't portray the characters as if they were only some of God's worst jokes. What came out was a beautiful and intelligent story about life, human relationships, and the choices that we face between keeping up love even under difficult conditions or, instead, going the seemingly easy way and losing everything.If that doesn't sound depressing enough for you, better go and buy the book...

(excuse me for the lousy use of the English language) A bit in a twist about this one... My experience throughout the movie was a mix of astonishment and confusion. The actors are absolutely brilliant (especially Moritz Bleibtreu and Martina Gedeck) but the story line is a bit of a mess. Must confess that I haven't read the book though, but as an "outsider" i feel as if the director wants to put as much book material as possible into a predefined certain amount of celluloid and thereby losing most of the unprepared audience. It just doesn't work. There are too many loose ends that are never tied together (SPOILER WARNING) e.g. the student that Bruno hits on, Bruno's Oedipus complex, Bruno's father who is introduced and the quickly abandoned again, Bruno's wife and daughter who completely disappears from the plot, Annabelle's ex (who is mentioned to be a serial killer). All together there are "chapters" in the movie but they are not connected well enough - it all just falls short of something great. The main theme (in my eyes) that Bruno himself pursues sexual satisfaction leading him beyond the line of sanity and his brother Michael as the ultra-virgin pursuing a life of fidelity in the name of science suffers quite a bit on this behalf.The use of humor is (to say the least) debatable - and even as confusing as the story line! You never know when to cry or laugh, for example when Bruno masturbates to his own mother and then kills a kitten - too twisted and sad to be really funny - too twisted not to be. This is a major inconsistency. When the nature of a scene is to feel pity for a character, the episode is ridiculed by a somewhat lame (and not very) funny oddity, totally killing the intimacy. This happens several times.All in all the movie is worth seeing but it is definitely the work of the actors who carry the load.