9 Tage wach

A well made movie about a Chrystal Meth addicted actor. The plot is interesting the main actor Eric impressively played by Jannik Schümann. The entire cast makes a good and credible impression. Particularly noteworthy is Peri Baumeister in the role of Eric's girlfriend Anja.

The film does not correspond to the stereotypical dramaturgy of drug films. No glamorous rise and no deep fall is shown. The struggles who let the main actor abuse drugs are rather commonplace. But profane as drug addiction is. Nevertheless, the plot is interesting. Probably in order to create more drop height, the conflict between Eric and Anna is dramatized a little too much, which would not have been necessary. In my opinion that takes away some credibility from the story but it is still ok. A very postitiv aspect of "9 Tage Wach" is that Plot stays away from glorifying or demonizing the drugs, but relying on the experiences of the protoganonists to speak for themselves. The tempo, the optics and mood of the film are well made. My rating is 7 stars - the film entertained me over the average.

Sadly just a few people have been able to make a great movie about drug addiction and how it really is. This movie is scratching at the surface of what addiction really is like. All the stereotypes are there and overall it tries too hard to be meaningful. Crystal meth is not turning everyone into a screamimg nonsensical human at first. The cruel thing about it is that alot of people are still functioning well until everything breakes apart. Of course every story is different but this one can not live up to the real horrors of what addiction is really like. Especially the depiction of the clinic is just unrealistic and shows how little they did the research about withdrawl symptoms of crystal. The acting is clichè and over the top. This is not how people act at all when beeing on the drug. More research about what therapy is really like and how the drug effects ones individual would have had positive effects on the movie. It also seems way too dramatic at times which takes alot of the sincerity and makes it kind of cringe. Can not recommend this.