Real people in desperate times

Rating: 9/10 (6 January 2008)

We all would like to think of ourselves as being capable of greatness in the face of adversity, the truth is we are completely in the dark as to what adversity will do to us. So it is with the characters of this story. There are no one dimensional characters here, everyone has a surprise in store. (Well perhaps Gunter Franken is a bit the stereotype, but even he plays piano and sings) Some characters are more transparent than others, but so it is in life. One will doubtlessly figure out some of the twists in advance, but somehow that only makes the others more impressive.
Even our heroine has a bit of a dark side, one that she doesn't fully understand. It is beyond understanding and yet . . .
Do not go to this movie expecting right to win and evil to perish, it might happen, but along the way you will be asked to question every assumption.