Can I just point out how extraordinary beautiful Aenne Schwarz is? And she is 35 years old! *Phew* that is insane. The film was originally two stars, but when I found that out, I had to raise my levels of stardom for this film up!
Anyways, All Good is a German film about a woman who, in an attempt to forget about a rape that happened, eventually becomes traumatized from the whole experience, until she reaches an absolutely breaking point. I love the concept and the acting, but I actually found the script and some of the music to be genuinely bad. First, there was not really a score at all, but there was a lot of loud and annoying pop songs that would play in the background of some scenes, which totally took me out of the film. I do not know why, but its just that the music was almost objectively not good. And then the dancing that the cast would do when it was playing made me cringe. Now I know Germans have their own way of doing things, but I cannot be alone in thinking the music was horrendous here. They should have used ac lot less music and incorporated more of a score to go along with the sadness of Aenne's character.
Second, and most importantly, is the horrible screenplay. There way, WAY, too many plot conveniences surrounding the rape that happens.
1.) Why does our main character agree to sleep in the same house as the rapist following the high school or college reunion? 2.) How is it that our main character continuously run into the rapist? 3.) Even with me understanding that rapes occur for little to no reason, I cannot even wrap my mind why this dude would even want to rape her you in the first place. He is literally getting married in a few days, so what the heck? 4.) Why was our main character letting the dude be so friendly and romantic to her, even if she has a husband and they are doing well?
The rape scene really took me by surprise with how well it was done, but every plot annoyance and convenience surrounding it took me out of the film.
Here are some other glaring issues:
1.) Why do we get more time developing the relationship between the rapist and the main girl, than we even do with her and her own husband. Like oh yeah let us just show the audience how the main girl and the rapist are flirting with each other, walking at night, and feeding cats. But as for the husband, just show the main girl ride him cowgirl style, and that establishes their lovable relationship. Heck yeah! Go screenwriters! Glad I feel just a tad more development for the rapist than the main girl's husband. 2.) The subplot surrounding the main character and her husband's fight literally made no sense to you. I was confused (and maybe a little bored), but it is just felt so far out of left field, that it did not belong her. 3.) What is even going on in that final shot? Why are people getting so upset that she is not getting off the bus? There are all of these other seats!!
Honestly, there was some stuff I really liked in All Good. The acting Aenne Schwarz is exceptional. There were some interesting ideas thrown in there. The rape scene was pretty raw and brutal. The depiction of a woman trying to forget her own rape was even pretty unique. However, the story was annoying. The amount of subplots started to annoy me. And I got more bored as time went along.
Watch out for the standout performance from Aenne Schwarz everyone. However, just know that everything else in this film is not All Good.
Will give a rewatch when it ever releases digitally to see if my mind is changed.
Anyways, All Good is a German film about a woman who, in an attempt to forget about a rape that happened, eventually becomes traumatized from the whole experience, until she reaches an absolutely breaking point. I love the concept and the acting, but I actually found the script and some of the music to be genuinely bad. First, there was not really a score at all, but there was a lot of loud and annoying pop songs that would play in the background of some scenes, which totally took me out of the film. I do not know why, but its just that the music was almost objectively not good. And then the dancing that the cast would do when it was playing made me cringe. Now I know Germans have their own way of doing things, but I cannot be alone in thinking the music was horrendous here. They should have used ac lot less music and incorporated more of a score to go along with the sadness of Aenne's character.
Second, and most importantly, is the horrible screenplay. There way, WAY, too many plot conveniences surrounding the rape that happens.
1.) Why does our main character agree to sleep in the same house as the rapist following the high school or college reunion? 2.) How is it that our main character continuously run into the rapist? 3.) Even with me understanding that rapes occur for little to no reason, I cannot even wrap my mind why this dude would even want to rape her you in the first place. He is literally getting married in a few days, so what the heck? 4.) Why was our main character letting the dude be so friendly and romantic to her, even if she has a husband and they are doing well?
The rape scene really took me by surprise with how well it was done, but every plot annoyance and convenience surrounding it took me out of the film.
Here are some other glaring issues:
1.) Why do we get more time developing the relationship between the rapist and the main girl, than we even do with her and her own husband. Like oh yeah let us just show the audience how the main girl and the rapist are flirting with each other, walking at night, and feeding cats. But as for the husband, just show the main girl ride him cowgirl style, and that establishes their lovable relationship. Heck yeah! Go screenwriters! Glad I feel just a tad more development for the rapist than the main girl's husband. 2.) The subplot surrounding the main character and her husband's fight literally made no sense to you. I was confused (and maybe a little bored), but it is just felt so far out of left field, that it did not belong her. 3.) What is even going on in that final shot? Why are people getting so upset that she is not getting off the bus? There are all of these other seats!!
Honestly, there was some stuff I really liked in All Good. The acting Aenne Schwarz is exceptional. There were some interesting ideas thrown in there. The rape scene was pretty raw and brutal. The depiction of a woman trying to forget her own rape was even pretty unique. However, the story was annoying. The amount of subplots started to annoy me. And I got more bored as time went along.
Watch out for the standout performance from Aenne Schwarz everyone. However, just know that everything else in this film is not All Good.
Will give a rewatch when it ever releases digitally to see if my mind is changed.