A young woman called Mia is hired for a dubbing job related to the translation into German of a Japanese "anime". Soon she's identifying with her character, a female superhero fighting supernatural monsters. She also becomes obsessed with one of the anime's great themes, to wit electricity and the kind of creatures that might use and abuse it. As her grip on reality fades, she finds it ever more difficult to interact with society...
On imdb "Electric Girl" is described as a German movie, but I believe it resulted from a Germano-Belgian collaboration. Whatever its origins, it's a drama about a young woman losing her ability to distinguish between fact and fiction.
I would not describe it as an entirely useless movie. It's got its strong points, such as an interesting contrast/interaction between real life and anime. The anime, as a work-within-another-work, looks quite professional. The acting is pretty decent, too.
However, the movie might have taken more time to concentrate on Mia as an individual with her own life story and her own likes and dislikes. Now we hardly get to know her as a person before her descent in madness. And this descent is both rapid and complete : within a matter of weeks Mia, who seemed a pretty normal and reasonable person, is walking around in a canary yellow coat and a blue wig and telling people she knows everything there is to know about electricity. She then degenerates further into swivel-eyed madness, with one dangerously unhinged episode after another : telling a group of unsuspecting Japanese tourists she's there to save them, speeding along the highway at Formula One-speed, beating up policemen in a bar. In other words, it's psychosis with electrical knobs on. The movie might have used these elements more wisely and sparingly, since they overwhelm the story being told. As any good cook knows, sharp spices are best used in tiny amounts...
On imdb "Electric Girl" is described as a German movie, but I believe it resulted from a Germano-Belgian collaboration. Whatever its origins, it's a drama about a young woman losing her ability to distinguish between fact and fiction.
I would not describe it as an entirely useless movie. It's got its strong points, such as an interesting contrast/interaction between real life and anime. The anime, as a work-within-another-work, looks quite professional. The acting is pretty decent, too.
However, the movie might have taken more time to concentrate on Mia as an individual with her own life story and her own likes and dislikes. Now we hardly get to know her as a person before her descent in madness. And this descent is both rapid and complete : within a matter of weeks Mia, who seemed a pretty normal and reasonable person, is walking around in a canary yellow coat and a blue wig and telling people she knows everything there is to know about electricity. She then degenerates further into swivel-eyed madness, with one dangerously unhinged episode after another : telling a group of unsuspecting Japanese tourists she's there to save them, speeding along the highway at Formula One-speed, beating up policemen in a bar. In other words, it's psychosis with electrical knobs on. The movie might have used these elements more wisely and sparingly, since they overwhelm the story being told. As any good cook knows, sharp spices are best used in tiny amounts...
