2024-02-04 08:49:53
There are supposed to be people who try to get through life without a criminal record, not out of moral considerations, but simply because they have watched too many prison films. And believe you know what awaits you on the other side of the prison walls.
Corruption, racism, drug trafficking, sexual violence, migrants make white knives and vice versa. Actually everything is the same as outside, only worse and more hopeless. People can’t get any better than that. Rehabilitation is nonsense.
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These people should avoid “The Wunderkind”, the 94th case for the Munich “Tatort” team, like the bank robber avoids the police checkpoint. The fact that violence begets violence, that among people who have nothing left to lose there is hardly any impulse control anymore and the threshold for escalation is very low, is not the only insight that one takes away from the basically nerve-wracking viewing of this Sunday evening crime thriller.
But the sociotope of prison is not the problem in Thomas Stiller’s story. This isn’t all extremely authentic just because it was filmed in the Landshut JVA. The problem lies outside the prison door, on the other side, in freedom.
The case is as follows: The prison – corruption, racism, drug trafficking, sexual violence, migrants making white knives and vice versa – has an uncrowned ruler who allows himself and can do anything. His name is Gumbert and Ralf Herforth lets him pump out testosterone from every pore as only he can.
Ivo Batic (Miroslav Nemec l.) is attacked in the prison
Quelle: Sappralot Productions GmbH/He/BR
Gumbert wants to expand his drug empire – in prison and actually outside. And the carefully balanced balance of criminal energy behind bars is getting out of hand. Looks are thrown like hand grenades and men are made submissive.
You can hardly look, so it affects you. Then Gumbert goes to take a shower – that must be a cliché – and someone knifes him. There are enough suspects. There are 18, to be precise. You can tell them apart pretty well – which is quite a feat on the part of Stiller, the screenwriter who is his own director.
With Scholz, who only has one day left in prison when Gumbert’s blood gurgles down the drain, the problems begin for the “prodigy”. Or rather not with Scholz, who can’t really do anything about it, but with Commissioner Leitmayr, with Franz.
The trauma of Franz Leitmayr
He was probably so immortal until now because he had no life. Now they are standing there in the prison library, which serves as an improvised control center for the investigation, Ivo and Franz, and like Kai from the box, Stiller digs out a trauma from Leitmayr’s soul, an injury inflicted on him by his father you had no idea in the 33 years that you spent Sunday after Sunday hunting for murderers with Franz.
Small insert: If you don’t want anything spoiled, you should switch to some other text at this point. Unfortunately, to explain why Stiller’s “Tatort” doesn’t work, we have to reveal more than we normally would.
Scholz, to whom Carlo Ljubek in turn gives a brokenness, a Janus-facedness that only he can do, has a son. He plays the piano wonderfully. For his age. He looks a bit like a trained middle-class monkey when he plays Bach’s perfect C major Prelude at the very beginning – bow tie, suit, bow. His foster parents are completely in love with him.
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The son hasn’t seen his father for five years, who runs to the audition as a free agent and of course comes late. There was previously a report that Scholz had mistreated Ferdinand. But in prison, says Scholz, he became a different person. A Japanese soul teaching healed him.
What makes him a suspect in the Gumbert murder is the fact that Gumbert wants to use Scholz as a kind of brand ambassador for his crime company after his release. And he blackmails him by pointing out that it is incredibly dangerous for children. On the street and in general.
But Franz has no idea about the blackmail when he, who is actually a stickler for empathy, zeroes in on Scholz as a suspect. He constantly teases. Leave it to Batic to investigate the various side paths that Stiller has created through his plot.
“People like you never change”
The thing with Franz, who finds himself and his trauma in Ferdinand and, with an ever-increasing torment, goes after Scholz, who does things that no police officer is allowed to do with impunity and that are borderline psychopathic, is more important to him. And reveals a rather questionable understanding of the law and view of humanity. At some point Franz sits next to Scholz in the car. And then he says, “People like you never change.”
Franz means this very seriously. Stiller explains why he means this with the side of his hand, but it’s somewhat plausible. And Franz can also mean that rehabilitation is basically a crazy project because bad people stay bad. As a private person. It’s a free country.
However, as a commissioner, Franz disqualifies himself from the six cases that remain in the Munich “crime scene” area until he retires. Because he could logically shoot the perpetrators he is about to convict because of their dire social perspective. The fact that Stiller does next to nothing, to contain Franzen’s questionable view of humanity, to provide her with a corrective, and in the end he also confirms her, that makes this “crime scene” almost a scandal.
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