Der Fan

Young student Simone suffers from a morbid obsession with a famous pop singer. She is willing to break all ties with the rational world with the sole purpose of somehow getting closer to him. The Fan is a probe into Simone’s disturbed mind. The characters are not embellished in any way by the director and screenwriter Eckhart Schmidt; both main characters are seriously mean people at their core who, in order to reach their goal, ruthlessly go and harm their surroundings, and when one of them acknowledges it, hell is only starting. One thing is that the outcome looks like it came from a completely different movie, and sets the seal on the whole preceding storyline. Therefore, I’ll strongly stress out that the least you read about The Fan in advance, the more likely you are to be taken aback by its ending. A sick flick for sure. (13.05.2020)