#THE CAPTAIN 2017 INSTALL#
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#THE CAPTAIN 2017 INSTALL#

Please enable it or install a modern browser that support JavaScript.ĬareersPartnersAbout usWhere to watchSupportThis feature is coming soon.We’re currently working on it! Thanks for your patience.About UsOur StoryLeadershipNewsPressCareersBecoming A CitizenResponsibilitiesPerksWhere To WatchSmart TVStreaming DevicesMobile AppDesktop AppWatch on the webAccessibilityPartnersDistributionContent ProvidersAdvertisers© 2022 Pluto Inc. The central premise is arresting, as is the style, but there’s a lot more that could have been done with it than just show how one ill-defined individual instantly opts to join his country’s lowest form of life.This website needs JavaScript to work properly. In the interim he has made six mostly forgettable mid-range action dramas, including Flightplan, The Time Traveler’s Wife and RED, so this return home represents a rejuvenation of sorts. This is Schwentke’s first feature made in his native land since he began his career there in 2002 with Tattoo and, the following year, The Family Jewels. All we know at the end is that Herold has no conscience and might well do better working for the secret police in East Germany than he would in the West. But that would have compromised the German Everyman intent the writer-director seems determined to stress. Perhaps a running narration as to what his logic is during all this might have elevated this portrait of evil.

Unfortunately, Schwentke never draws the viewer close to Herold we know nothing about the young lad who’s pulling off this personality heist, his previous life, his true feelings about the Nazis and the war (maybe he really was a true believer to begin with). As a study of real-life acting, the tale could have become one of many different things: a high-wire tale of risk, a darkly absurdist yarn about a guy who suddenly discovers he’s a born con man or even an outright comedy about a country bumpkin who, in an extreme way, has greatness thrust upon him and must rise to the occasion.

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The Captain is at its best exhibiting this unknowable man’s charade, this daring attempt by a desperate young man trying to save his skin by pretending to be something he might have liked to become but never was close to being. There is more gruesomeness, followed by ironies, weird twists of fate and, finally, a strange in-color contemporary coda that feels far less convincing than it does like Schwentke just making a point to be provocative.

Impersonating an officer he gathers a group of deserters and proceeds to kill and plunder his way through a beaten Nazi Germany. With everyone else hemming and hawing, Herold steps into the void and takes action, rounding up a bunch of men who, a week earlier, might have included himself, and mows them all down with an anti-aircraft gun. In the last moments of World War II, a 19 year old private, ragged and starving, steals a captain’s uniform. Despite their skepticism, will any of the authorities dare question him? But he continues his high-wire act, claiming that he’s been sent by the Fuhrer personally.

Staffed by other officers, this is a place where the slightest slip by Herold would land him right in with the other prisoners.

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But it’s rather nice being a captain, even in a nation in its death throes, and he shortly comes across a detention camp full of regular army deserters waiting to learn their fate. Pathetic worm that he was, Herold settles into his new role in life quickly and with ease, even as he can never be certain who might turn up and expose him as an imposter.Ī bright man’s logical next step would seemingly be to use his perceived authority to get himself somewhere he could just slip into the crowd or, at worst, surrender to the Allies. So it’s to be the story of a masquerade, an act, an overnight conversion from victim to judge and jury who can exercise authority over life or death on a whim. At an inn that night, his mettle is tested when he puts on the airs of an officer, claims to be on a secret mission to report on conditions behind the front line and, to prove his ruthlessness, shoots a looter. Fate then chooses to favor this pathetic young Everyman, who shortly finds an abandoned official car, along with a captain’s coat, uniform and shoes, all of which fit.

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