2024-09-22 10:51:43
Verdict? Who needs justice anyway? Freiburg’s “crime scene” detectives are getting old and caught in the gears of a corrupt and greedy justice system. And suffer from the typical symptoms of a “criminal-centered” crisis.
When the detectives of the Sunday evening crime drama grew up, when they realized that they could only drag after escaping the detectives, they could no longer jump over walls and streams, although they tried very hard, they preferred to sit still , drive around. car and struggle with each other and the state of the world.
Philosophizing about how they are always late. They should stick to the rules while everyone else ignores all the rules. That judgment is not something that intelligence can achieve. That the justice system is not about justice at all.
Call those who brought them before the court from behind with soft sentences. And they get the attitude. And of course you can understand them well.
They did this in Munich, in Kiel and Dortmund – everywhere where Sunday evening crime commissioners approach the end of the standard retirement for detectives, i.e. basically anywhere in the country “Tatort”. As is well known, the aging of the TV drama staff is evident. In contrast to their colleagues in real life, Leitmayr, Batic and Co are in a comfortable position that all they have to do is sue their authors, who are the witnesses for all the judicial decisions in the German Sunday evening, which makes them hopeful. .
But of course they won’t allow that. At least they let them talk about the gap in justice as a symptom of the end-of-life crisis their criminals are generous with there. And then they put their conflicted elders into the next problem.
Manipulation and abuse
Franziska Tobler (Eva Löbau) and Friedemann Berg (Hans-Jochen Wagner), whose area is perhaps the best and calmest in the land of “crime”, are not the oldest investigators in the land of Sunday evening crime, and if they continue to investigate as diligently as before, they will also have a long life. But that doesn’t apply to them. In “Ad acta”, their twelfth case together, they also have to complain about being late and about feeling useless and that they have to behave.
The screenwriter they will have to gather is called Bernd Lange and, as he is here, he is one of the best in the country. He took the two humble commissioners by the hand and led them slowly, but not in a drawn-out way, into the gears of the judicial apparatus of – at least in “Ad Acta” and in the Black Forest and in the trials of some. judges and lawyers – is not concerned with denying Justice, but mostly with compensation for damages, which is as open to manipulation and abuse as the barn door on Friedemann Berg’s farm.
What’s the case: A young lawyer is about to be killed. You have a date with a ghostly motorcycle. A shot in the head. There are thousands of euros lying around the crime scene and a few court documents. The deceased father was a private lawyer who helped rockers and right-wing activists – if the money was right, it was for anyone – get lenient sentences. August Zirner is this Rainer Benzinger, he wears Otto Schily’s hair and makes his heart so sad that he is the only one who deserves a monthly salary.
The thing about Otto Schily’s hairstyle is perhaps not entirely accidental. Rudi Gaul, who developed Bernd Lange’s book that slowly became one of legal tragedy, works in his fourth “crime scene” with a beauty that does not completely recall that of Dominik Graf’s Stuttgart post-RAF “crime scene” . It is called “The Red Shadow”.
Gaul also uses sophisticated color dramaturgy and different levels of desaturation to tell his story. “Ad Acta” also works with flashbacks. If Benzinger is taken by an Avenger motorcycle at some point, it will look a lot like an RAF attack. Even the soundtrack by Verena Marisa sounds like an apocryphal seventies movie.
Actually, something is missing in split screens. “Ad Acta” is Dominik Graf’s film under sedatives. That’s a good thing. Graf’s expression promoters may not necessarily be compatible with Black Forest.
Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg overcome the central crisis-“crime scene” at the end. There is still justice. You just have to give a damn about the rules.
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