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The benefit of late reviews is one is usually damn well aware of writing them for oneself.
When Germany met the 'Fades' it came in the guise of 'young adult' on our oh so stylishly independent, self-declared cultural channel.
While I could summarize it as the most unskilled plagiarism of 'Wraith - The Oblivion' which I had witnessed in my lifetime, I decided to laugh my beep off instead.
Narcissism and Junkie-Glory. A seriously disturbed teenager saving the country at minimum, and the world on a regular. Of course while having cheap sex and babbling ignorant bull-dung all the way! It was splendid. One of the British-R-All-Gay-Scum smear-jobs unleashed. But that isn't true.
'Life on Mars' was one of the series, which proved that British hard work can easily outmatch the disinterested money-dumping attempted in the US version of it.
Of course an extra-bonus was the fact that drug-wrecks are automatically strong-willed occult experts. While not one ever has the will to go through cold-withdrawal, or into a therapy, they all have the will to outmatch the greatest of masters, and protagonist usually boss God around, too.
Given that modern lobotomy is usually performed by allowing unwanted loudmouth's to smoke poisoned dope we get something which 'Trainspotting' simply couldn't provide. The damaged and twisted explanations from someone who belongs to the gutter-born and ill-educated. As sign of state's failure concerning the modern youth that is actually social criticism where it is really true.
Contextually the Fades was a limited budget production. By that it had to simplify a lot, and take shortcuts, eventually even cuts on the quality. It did succeed in telling a low quality tale to those who never found better originals, and to be honest: Reviewing the crappy failures is often much more fun than writing about a deserving 10 star movie all others could recognize as brilliant, too. ;-)
score 2/10
pietroschek 8 February 2016
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