Anyone who has lived for a while may think at the moment: Crises used to be clearer.
Didn't they mostly follow the memorable picture of a one-time fever chart?
The annoyance somehow begins, then becomes steep, sometimes sedate, until it is ugly, and finally subsides again suddenly or gradually, if necessary at the cost of entire civilizations that are later turned into ruins in their own memory (and the Posterity for instruction) persist.
Dietmar Dath
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For around two years, however, something unpleasant, which on the one hand drives the world and on the other hand paralyzes it, has shown a completely different course: The individual who is in need initially feels as if they were sitting in a train that was racing for a moment which he explodes. Then it really happens. But after that it is not the end, but the just exploded individual is again on the same train that rattles into the catastrophe again.
As soon as the individual, induced to act (or to a wise omission) by the shock suffered, tries to save himself and others on board, a political authority explains to him that the said train has departed in a very fundamental sense and it is no longer a question of preventing the catastrophe, but rather of understanding it: that is, collecting and interpreting data that is needed so that even greater disaster can be avoided. In doing so, it communicates, the authority interprets the words of a scientist who also recommends that the individual learn to move in models as in actual personal experience. If this individual, disturbed by it, locks himself up in the train toilet and looks in the mirror,in order to dampen the stress at least through a familiar sight, a complete stranger looks back.
All of this seems completely new to us.
Exactly ten years ago, however, the actor Jake Gyllenhaal as an involuntary anti-terrorist investigator Colter Stevens suffered the described horror that every back and forth between self-discipline and self-loss inevitably brings with it.
The film in which Gyllenhaal is so exhaustingly suffering from our present situation is called "Source Code".
It was staged by Duncan Jones, son of the great alien David Bowie.
“Source code” obviously has a lot to say to everyone who has to muddle through the grueling sequence of impositions and demands on responsibility that we are stuck in today.
It is currently not shown in the cinema, which for known reasons you might want to avoid again anyway (hopefully not for long).
For these reasons, the FAZ presents the complex thriller in which, in addition to Gyllenhaal, the refined Jeffrey Wright (as an inscrutable researcher), the wide-awake Michelle Monaghan (as the fateful chance acquaintance of the hero) and the energetic Vera Farmiga (as a pragmatic crisis management force) give their best, at her first streaming movie night. This format, which we developed in cooperation with the streaming service Pantaflix, will in future be regularly offered to an audience with FAZ subscription. Each evening begins with a short introduction to the respective film, which is selected by the editorial team. Questions or requests to speak for the subsequent discussion can be shared during the stream using the comment function after registering on FAZ.NET.
After each demonstration, two colleagues from the editorial team (this time: Dietmar Dath and Maria Wiesner) will discuss with the audience and with each other. The aim is to create a space for the exchange of ideas that goes beyond the usual critical register (e.g. a review) and looks for connections and judgments that do justice to the richness of the feature film format, about which people who love the cinema are justifiably worried. On this Tuesday, the first film evening of the FAZ begins at 7 p.m. with the fact that we watch "Source Code" how this film electrifies the idea that scientific and technical models, means and measures are not alien to the individual even in emergency situations. hostile powers must confront,rather, they can be appropriated and used as the most effective weapons imaginable in the fight against crises.