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Schoolgirl Simone (Désirée Nosbusch) has fallen hopelessly in love
with R, a new wave popstar, writes him almost every day and desperately
awaits his answer, convinced that he loves her back. Thing is, Simone and
R have never met, and R probably doesn't even know about her existance.
Simone's behaviour seems to get more erratic by the hour, she's having
problems at school and with her parents (Jonas Vischer, Helga Tölle) and
even gets into fights with the mailman (Klaus Münster) because he just
won't bring her R's letter.
Eventually, Simone has grown desperate enough that she runs away from
home to meet R in person in Munich - and wouldn't you know it, when she
awaits his arrival in front of a TV-studio with hundreds of other fans, he
actually takes note of her and invites her in, preferring her over al the
other fans. But not only that, after he taped his appearance on a TV show
he takes her to his hideout in the country, to have sex with her.
After sex though, he is quick to drop her again, so much so that he is
already at the door and getting ready to leave when she isn't even yet
dressed ... and so, in all her nakedness, Simone, overcome by endless
disappointment and boundless obsession, picks up a random statue standing
around and stabs the back of his head with it, effectively killing him.
However, this act drives Simone, who has always been unstable to say
the least, totally over the edge, and she has sex once more with R's dead
body, then she cuts him up with an electric knife, deepfreezes his
bodyparts and eats him up on a day-by-day basis. Then she uses common
kitchen appliances to turn his bones into dust and releases the dust in
front of the TV-studio.
Then she returns home as if nothing had happened, but she carries his
baby and is sure R will be reborn in his son.
Joachim Fuchsberger by the way, internationally best known for his
leads in many a German
Edgar Wallace film, plays himself in this one, the host of a
popular primetime TV-show - which is exactly as which he was known
domestically in the early 1980's.
Disturbing might be the best word to describe this film. It starts out
as a love story set against the sterile background of early 1980's fashion
and music with even the sex scene between Simone and R seeming almost
clinical and (consciously) over-directed. But when the viewer already
feels alienated by the (intentionally) otherworldly atmosphere, things
reach their shocking climax when Simone, to keep her own (unreal) reality
from shattering, kills the object of her desire, curiously enough to keep
it, to devour it. The film, it should be noted, does not go into too much
graphic detail concerning the murder and subsequent cannibalism, but one
gets the idea, and the idea is not a comforting one.
Recommended, actually.
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