Van God Los (2003)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.3/10   

Director:

Pieter Kuijpers

Escritores:

Pieter Kuijpers (co-writer)
Paul Jan Nelissen (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

24 abril 2003 (Netherlands)

Género:

Crimen | Drama

Frase comercial:

Keihard En Confronteren (Rock Hard and In Your Face)

Plot:

Two small town Dutch boys whose socially unnatural friendship is so close, they care nothing for human or divine rules and lose all grip on reality, sliding into violent crime.

Plot Keywords:

Beating | Police Station | Monkey Costume | Clobbering | Hitman

Premios:

7 wins & 7 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Privileged kid ends up as a cold-blooded criminal.

Reparto

Egbert Jan Weeber	...	Stan Meijer
Tygo Gernandt	...	Maikel Verheije
Angela Schijf	...	Anna Sprengers
Mads Wittermans	...	Sef
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Selma Avkapan	...	Granddaughter of Osman
Tamer Avkapan	...	Nadir
Marnie Blok	...	Joke
Bacha Chilaia	...	Frank
Loek Ewalds	...	Police officer 1
Mark Kleuskens	...	Police Officer 2
Cemil Kurtgözu	...	Suleyman
Pim Lambeau	...	Mevr. van de Velde
Frits Lambrechts	...	Dhr. van de Velde
Johnny Lion	...	Johan Schreurs
Peter Post	...	East-European man
Harry van Rijthoven	...	Bert
Ronald Schuurbiers	...	East-European man
Ergun Simsek	...	Hassan
Els Ingeborg Smits	...	Moeder Anna
Huub Stapel	...	Herbert Meijer
Alden Susa	...	Boy at funeral
Diego Teixeira	...	Stan (11 years)
Brader Torun	...	Osman
Mike van den Akker	...	Friend of Yuri
Deryl van Mieghem	...	Yuri
Joop Wittermans	...	Vader Anna
Helmert Woudenberg	...	Inspecteur Geukers

También conocida como:

Godforsaken! (literal English title)
Stir Crazy
Godforsaken (Argentina) (festival title) [es]

Duración:

Netherlands:83 min

País:

Netherlands

Idioma:

Holandés | Turco

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Netherlands:16 | Argentina:16 | Germany:18 | Australia:R

Locaciones de Filmación:

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Compañía:

BNN TV

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: When Maikel walks to the Turkish coffee shop, just before he starts shooting, a shadow of a matte box is visible in the lower left corner.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Baantjer: De Cock en de moord op herhaling - Deel 1 (#12.3)" (2006)

Privileged kid ends up as a cold-blooded criminal.

Intense movie with a plot that seems inevitable. "Van God Los" (which literally means "detached from God/to secede from God" and not "Godforsaken") is loosely based on the infamous "Bende van Venlo" (Venlo Gang) whose mostly youthful members allegedly committed over 250 crimes in 1993 and 1994.

The cold-bloodiness of the murders is acted out very well. It's hard to understand how a 15-year-old privileged dentist's son from the rural Netherlands can commit such crimes. The movie gives a very uncomfortable answer: That there is nothing to understand, that these things just happen because our society is the way it is.

In my opinion, the original title speaks volumes about the tone the movie sets and the answers it tries to give. Whereas "Godforsaken" implies that God "left" us alone, perhaps in disappointment, "to secede from God" means deliberately leaving him behind. Unfortunately, I have no information on the writer's intention here. It befits the film to have to think for yourself about what it means to you. The film will definitely get you thinking for a long while after the credits are over.