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For the fun of all professional and less professional Germanists, the word of the year is chosen every twelve months - "Corona pandemic" is not surprising this time.
It is downright negligent that no one has ever thought of choosing the question of the year for the fun of the philosophers.
Our - unfortunately not surprising - proposal for 2020: How much is a human life actually worth?
The fact that Bibi Fellner stands around shaking her head at some point in the 25th case, which she has to solve with Moritz Eisner in Vienna, and wonders exactly that, has nothing to do with Corona.
Bibi and Moritz are at the bottom.
With those who have fallen through the rust of the social system.
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The fact that among them is a modern small family who is desperately looking for a hostel and almost finds death in the end makes “Below” a Christmas film, even without any kind of Christmas tree.
Dark green world on the edge of the big city
The “Tatort” debut of the director Daniel Prochaska and the screenwriters Thomas Christian Eichtinger and Samuel R. Schultschik is just as little a social novel as a tough portrait of society from below.
“Below” navigates its way elegantly between all of this, first of all pulling seemingly contactless narrative threads through the dark greenish world on the edge of the big city, casually knotting them and in the end pulling them violently and violently.
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It is the story of the investigative journalist Gregor, who wanted to travel through the corrupt walls of the world with his head, which was in the end alcohol-tamped, until one day he finally fell dead in a ruined building.
About Johanna and Tobi, their son, who seek shelter in the homeless shelter "Lebensraum".
And from the Sackerl-Grete.
She is a good-hearted Sandlerin (Austrian: bum), as it is in the book, sees everything, hears everything, babbles to herself and nobody listens to her.
A story also of good people who are not good at all, because unfortunately they know all too well how much a human being is worth.
Better to avoid delivery vans
Like pike soup, it's not just in the shivering inspector's booth.
But through all the cracks.
The cold of the world has frozen away the biting joke, the teasing between Bibi and Moritz from “below”.
Warmer days are coming soon.
The horror that you develop in “Below” in front of delivery vans that stop next to you, however, you will keep that.