Gnade (2012)

	Also Known As: Mercy
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Matthias Glasner
	Actors: Jürgen Vogel, Birgit Minichmayr, Henry Stange. Ane Dahl Torp
	Country: D, N
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 17.10.2012, Schauburg, OV
Synopsis: A nurse kills by accident a girl, involves her infidel husband and is destroyed by the regrets. They do not tell the police and strengthen each other.
Review: Gnade works on the expectations we have from the human being. Are we good or bad, when we can benefit from a situation? What decision do we take, when we know we can be nasty against somebody? Strangely, we expect the worst coming from the secondary roles. The main roles are so supiscious that the spectator do not feel much compassion to them. As Jean-Jacques Rousseau defended, the human being is naturally born to be good, to which Matthias Glasner adds also mercyfull and forgivenessful. The movie states human beings as ready to forgive and to live with others, to recognize the good in others and accept mistakes. There is a big lack of rythm and photography, although the surroundings of Hammerland, in northern Norway look great.
Rating: 6 /10