I will leave it to other reviewers when detailling this film, its plot, and the cultural impact of this film.
However, I had to write the review due to the shockingly amount of anachronisms and sloppy attention to the detail. Many people might not care about the "devil's in the detail", but the anachronisms jump out like the 100,000-candela searchlight at you.
Inexplicably, the film production made no attempt to ensure the historical accuracies in the film. Without knowing much about the main character, Fritz Haarmann, I had trouble figuring out the era when I noticed the children wearing the modern clothes, including the colourful rubber boots. That disrupted my "suspension of belief". The German boys during the 1920s mostly wore the Lederhosen and leather shoes. The German girls wore the dresses back then. Then, the US Army general showed up at the police station in the uniform and mentioned the term, "Nazi". Neither the uniform and the term were used in the early 1920s. The train carriages with silver exterior and flush-mounted doors were from the late 1960s. Now, the vehicles didn't resemble anything from the 1920s. When I saw the "1925" at the end, I was perturbed about how much the anachronisms had ruined the film...
Other than the maddening anachronisms, I find the film very creepy and disturbing. Something that will stick to you for a long time.
However, I had to write the review due to the shockingly amount of anachronisms and sloppy attention to the detail. Many people might not care about the "devil's in the detail", but the anachronisms jump out like the 100,000-candela searchlight at you.
Inexplicably, the film production made no attempt to ensure the historical accuracies in the film. Without knowing much about the main character, Fritz Haarmann, I had trouble figuring out the era when I noticed the children wearing the modern clothes, including the colourful rubber boots. That disrupted my "suspension of belief". The German boys during the 1920s mostly wore the Lederhosen and leather shoes. The German girls wore the dresses back then. Then, the US Army general showed up at the police station in the uniform and mentioned the term, "Nazi". Neither the uniform and the term were used in the early 1920s. The train carriages with silver exterior and flush-mounted doors were from the late 1960s. Now, the vehicles didn't resemble anything from the 1920s. When I saw the "1925" at the end, I was perturbed about how much the anachronisms had ruined the film...
Other than the maddening anachronisms, I find the film very creepy and disturbing. Something that will stick to you for a long time.