Alexandra's Project

We do not get to engage with the lead male role to the point of "knowing" his personality beyond some typical stereotyping characteristics in the business world. The female lead role leaves us to wonder why she did not "step up" in the first year or two of the marriage and tell her husband what she did and did not like. Having lived with a very conservative person for 40 years, I have some experience with people that do not communicate well or at all on personal issues. You can go that long and still not really know them or what they are thinking most of the time. Life is all about COMMUNICATION! Not DOMINATION of one over another. If you hit me with a baseball bat, shame on you, if you do it again, shame on me! The female lead role certainly got "even" with the lead male role, her husband. Hate on hate only gets more hate! I know there are men that fit this role. I have known a few in my time and most of the time, in the end, they are the losers. Simply put, anyone that lets such abuse go on is in question. No one ever deserves such abuse. IN the same token, it seems that both characters were at odds with each other. I did not see any sense of connection outside the children. I felt hard pressed to really feel sympathy for either party. I was emotional. But, in the end, I felt both had failed at the principle of COMMUNICATION and permitted the activities to go on unabated. A cheating husband, and a wife that would not address the problems at an earlier point in time. Shame on both of them!

I viewed this movie at the Regal Arbor in north Austin, TX during South by Southwest. I arrived 45 minutes early thinking that I would beat the crowd at the door. Come to find out I was the only one in the theatre for a half hour. Pretty funny. This movie was really the first foreign film I had ever really seen in theatres. The story was excellent and original of any other film I can think of. My only beef with the film is that it went on a bit long, however, using that time makes you feel the distraught that this father is feeling. A man comes home from work to an empty house with birthday decorations up everywhere. There is a tv set up with a videotape ready to be played. He gets a beer, puts in the tape and it is his wife and two children wishing him a happy birthday. The two kids exit the room at the request of their mother, and the mother, Alexandra, starts a striptease for her husband. As the tape goes on, his wife gets more and more cynical, and the dread gets thicker. You cannot help but feel sorrow for this poor man. As the movie draws to a close, it may be impossible to comprehend the type of sabotage commited by this woman. Shock and awe! Terrible what this man must now endure. Anyone who has read my past unedited review of this movie might remember some spoilers. Well, I only edited the past review to appease the bookworm above me. Obviously she doesn't understand that if people don't like spoilers, or if they think they could currently be reading one, they can.....I don't know.....not read it. Me myself, need to read spoilers because the suspense kills me. Anyway, this movie is completely edible and quaffable; because when it's over, you will eat and drink this mans's sorrow for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I think that there is the optimistic message in this movie. I know that it may be surprising for those who watched it but i think they did not pay attention. The message is that you never know how a nice turnover in your life the next day may make. Let's face it: the husband is stuck in the miserable marriage with clearly mentally disturbed person, sex life completely dull - we see the wife smirks at the end of the sex act with the obese neighbor which is as close to the orgasm as she can get; and that's the only time we see her smiling, so go figure! - and with children he loves apparently but who look not too bright. Particularly daughter. On top of everything he learns that he provided sex service to all the outcasts in the neighborhood like this guy who water the lawns all day lawn (abandoned by his wife and we can figure why) or the other guy - clearly with erectile problems. And then - bam! She leaves, clears everything and all of the sudden he can start anew, with a clean slate, possibly with the woman with better tits than Helen Bundy's,! He definetely should move out of this neighborhood though. Especially that the unstable guy next door is armed and has too much spare time. Freshly promoted, in a great physical shape the life for him is nothing but a prospects. So who knows, perhaps something similar may happen to you too some day?

Alexandra's Project is a very psychological projection from the wife of a controlling husband to him thru a video tape left in their home. Out of all the days to pick to do this project, it had to be on the husband's birthday. There are a number of metaphors in this film that help to explain the feelings of the wife to the audience (it should have been for the husband but he's very clueless about how he's treated his wife all these years they were together). The security screens on the windows denotes isolation, the missing lightbulbs shows the darkness and despair of Alexandra, how she made the money to escape this situation shows the level of control her husband exerted over her to control what she did. We so often only hear about the sensationalized abuse of battered and beaten spouses and children. This movie drives home that there are other forms of abuse that people endure, possibly many more than of the latter abuse. It's in the end that we see that although he stands to lose everything, there is still a chance to escape; a chance to find people that can give one a glimmer of hope although the loving gesture of the neighbor is more torture than anything for the ex-father/husband. A good movie with excellent twists.

Der Film ist eine besonders tiefdringende und medienreflektive Inszenierung über die Perspektive einer unglücklichen, abgedrehten und einfallsreichen Ehefrau. Über eine Video-Cam verschafft sie sich endlich die Stimme, die ihr die Beziehung ihres selbstgerechten Gatten über Jahre verwehrt hat.Obwohl zu Anfang nicht viel passiert und die Synchronisation (besonders der Bälger) zu wünschen übrig lässt, verstehen Kameraarbeit und die darstellerische Leistung der weiblichen Hauptrolle es wirklich, die Aufmerksamkeit der Zuschauenden aufrecht zu erhalten. Der weitere Filmverlauf hält durch eine originelle Handlung und geglückte Inszenierung bis zum Ende, was der faszinierende Anfang verspricht. Dieser Film gefällt nicht nur Movie Geeks, die tief in der Nacht nach neuen Grenzüberschreitungen filmischer Darstellungen suchen, sondern auch aufgrund seiner wohlüberlegten und reflektierten Gestaltung filmerfahrenen Cineasten.Die DVD wurde schnell geliefert und ist - abgesehen von wenigen Tipp-Fehlern im Booklet - von guter Qualität. Der Edition liegt ein vernünftiges, mediengerechtes Konzept zugrunde, sodass sowohl der Film angemessen präsentiert als auch vermittelt werden kann. Die DVD-Produktionsfirma konzentriert sich auf spannende Filmprojekte, die sich in ihren extremen Stilmitteln mutig von Mainstream-Produktionen abwenden und dennoch nicht den narrativen oder künstlerischen Ansprüchen schaden. Lediglich das Layout wirkt etwas ausschlachtend. Demnach könnte der eine oder andere Gewaltbegeisterte, der den Versprechungen auf der DVD-Hülle Glauben schenkt, vom tatsächlichen Plot überrascht sein. Dieser ist nicht derart brutal, geht jedoch auf subtile Weise und psychologisch sehr dezent und dennoch erschütternd in die Tiefe unbeschrittener Pfade der filmischen Gewalt.

Alexandra,Alexandra.Man bekommt nicht wirklich die Einsicht um was für einen Menschen es sich handelt,als man Alexandra zuerst sieht.Darum ist die Verwandlung in eine Rachsüchtige Frau umso aufregender.Für mich ist dies der beste Film der Störkanal-Reihe.Zwar sind alle ohne Ausnahme der Hauptdarstellerin nicht so Überzeugend,auch wegen der Sychronisation doch dieser Frau auf Ihrem Racheweg,der allein auf einer Videokamera stattfindet zusehen zu können ist 5 Sterne wert.Fesselnder Film!

alles io, !

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Wieder ein toller Film der Störkanalreihe. Tolle Athmosphäre im Haus: Von Nachdenklich bis exessiv spannend alles dabei. Man denkt nur: - dranbleiben - nix verpassen! Sehr fesselnde Szenerie, gegen Ende etwas nachlassend. Aber eines ist sicher: Die Diskussion nach dem Film. Lohnt sich in jedem Fall.