(Nikias
Chryssos/2015/Germany)
Der
Bunker is a colourfully bizarre film about a guy who rents a room
from a couple and ends up schooling their son who they are convinced
will be the next president of the USA. I felt it was a little weird
for weird’s sake at times but it is funny and dark, a kind of
absurdist horror that’s certainly memorable if equally baffling. On
a chewing the cud level there’s themes about overzealous parenting,
children not flying the coop (or not being allowed to!) and the
effects of that and maybe some Freudian tit bits about
disenfranchised fathers and reversed Oedipus soaked mums. It’s all
very strange but it’s well put together with a creeping sense of
unreality. A grand way to spend 90 minutes but not the kind of movie
that lights my fire I’m afraid.
(2/5)
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