A Brilliant Conflict

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

What the hell is Jana Straulino doing in this opinionated piece of declamatory bullshit? Okay, so with a dozen TV show appearances and a handful of minor cinematic credits to her name she doesn't exactly have an A-list track record. But she sure moves like a ballerina. I guess after 13 years of training at John Neumeier's school, she *is* a ballerina in every sense that matters. With that Jean Seberg hairstyle and her killer cheekbones, she should be tanning on a Riva Ariston moored off the Cap D'Antibes, or lighting candles in an Eastern European cathedral the size of Mount Makalu. But instead, for reasons all her own, she has chosen to join the editorial staff of that latest and least inspired journalistic "me too" venture, German Vanity Fair. Here is a girl who needs to get out of Berlin-Friedrichshain *bad*. Someone please take heart and cast her in something glamorous.