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Let the Cat Out of the Bag (2005)

Unbelievable Characters Bored Me To Death

[2/10 · 31 March 2006]

Uninteresting characters, unbelievable reactions, no interesting settings, almost no story: That's the summary of nearly 1 1/2 hours of watching "Katze I'm Sack", lifetime almost completely wasted. I wonder why some people think this might be a way out of German film crisis. It can hardly get any worse. This film was described as a brave new way, but what do we get? It takes about 30 minutes until the "story" really begins. The very beginning when Karl meets a homosexual wind craft technician is completely obsolete, that story line is vaguely picked up later, but with no reason or result. The films main problem is to have a story spanning 2 days with the main characters meeting seldom. The owner of a safety firm, one of the 3 main characters in the film, hardly ever meets or interacts with the other 2 leading actors; the scenes he is in could be from a completely different film. Even the Karl and Doris (the other 2 main roles) have almost no common film scenes. That's not the way to tell an interesting story. Moreover, the fact that they meet so rarely makes reactions so unbelievable: *SPOILER AHEAD* Why should a woman leave her job and (platonical) friend behind to go away with a stranger to which she talked to on a train and then met him again in a karaoke bar where they talked ca. 6 sentence?