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# The Wall

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## Description

Martina Gedeck, star of the Academy Award-winning film the Lives of Others, brings a vivid intensity to this mysterious and riveting tale of survival set in a spectacularly beautiful Austrian mountain landscape. In a tour-de-force performance, Gedeck stars as an unnamed character who suddenly finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall inexplicably surrounds the countryside where she is vacationing. Accompanied by her loyal dog Lynx, she becomes immersed in a world untouched by civilization and ruled by the laws of nature. As she grapples with her bizarre circumstances, she begins an inward journey of spiritual growth and transcendence. Based on Marlen Haushofer's eponymous classic novel, the Wall is a gorgeous, mesmerizing adventure film that raises profound questions about humanity, solitude, and our relationship to the natural world.

Review: A Stunning Premise and An Evocative Film - The Wall is a remarkable movie coming out of Germany. The premise of the story is intriguing and a bit uncomfortable to contemplate, but...the transformation of the woman who has to deal with this unexplainable event is depthful and moving. One must listen closely to her narrative as she journals her experience because it contains gems of wisdom. This is not a sit on the couch and eat popcorn movie, but if you want to be moved and changed in some way, this is a masterful movie. Forget it if you classify yourself as ADHD...
Review: Why? - With an interesting premise, and beautiful scenery, I was sucked in. A tail of self discovery for a woman isolated in the wilderness, a mysterious invisible wall (The Dome anyone?), I figured "why not?" I knew that a narrated style movie such as this would be a little art-housey but this one was too far. I'd warn that there are spoilers ahead in this review, but seeing as the film is pre-spoiled I shall not bother. To sum things up so you don't have to waste your time, the entire movie is narrated by this woman who is writing down her experiences of the last few years of being trapped by a large invisible barrier inside an Austrian country side. She can see a few neighbors mysteriously frozen in place, though other elements of the environment, such as flowing water, seem to continue outside of her bubble. She fends for herself taking care of livestock and farming inside her prison and writing very flowery and often poetic phrases about her lonely existence and how calm she is beginning to feel. This goes on for a few years, a time much shorter than watching the movie felt, until a mysterious man miraculously shows up one summer day to hack her young bull to death and kill her dog, the only friend she has. Then she runs out of paper and concludes her tail. The End. The actress, without having many lines, was quite good I thought. Like Tom Hanks in Cast Away. The scenery was also spectacular, and that's all I can say positively about it. My first real complaint is that it seems she is going on a personal journey with her isolation and introspection. Unfortunately, we the audience, cannot go on it with her has we have no idea who she was before. Was she like Tom Hank's Cast Away character and too busy and hectic to realize the life he was leading? Was she a narcissist? A bad person? Hated animals? Getting over a lost love? We just don't know. All we know is that she came up to a secluded hunting loge with a couple, even though she hated hunting, and didn't want to go into town with them right after they arrived. We know nothing about her, her relationships, her reasons, or her purpose. This made a lot of the dramatic introspection she was narrating pointless. I guess we also know that she somehow had enough basic farming knowledge to survive even though she clearly stated she was weak and unaccustomed to that type of work. I also found her lack of curiosity about the wall disturbing. I take that she couldn't go too far away from the cow, as it needed tending, but after the initial shock wore off she didn't seem to want to do things like dig under the wall, find out how big it was, or find out if others existed in it (fires, smoke signals, etc...). She just accepted it and her situation and moved on with her potato harvesting. To end the way it did felt like a cheap emotional ploy. Let's kill off her best friend, the dog, out of the blue by having a mysterious man show up. Who was this man? Where did he come from? Why was he there? Was he just insane or did he have a purpose? Unless he was totally off his rocker wouldn't his first impression upon coming across the logging and domesticated animals of someone else after 3 years be more "yea I'm not alone!!!" rather than "let me axe this cow and dog to death"? If he was insane then how did he last so long though the harsh winters? Wouldn't her reaction likewise be more to find out where he came from, where the wall ends, if others are there, etc... than just to shut herself off in her little house? Finally, the abrupt ending without any questions being answered left a bad taste in the mouth. Don't tell me about how you get to make up your own conclusions, as that's just lazy storytelling. We find out nothing about the wall, what her future is like, if the world survives, nothing. I finished the movie asking what was the point and why did I ever waste my time on this?

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B00E1RTCE8 |
| Actors  | Martina Gedeck |
| Aspect Ratio  | 2.35:1 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #95,968 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #885 in Foreign Films (Movies & TV) #2,028 in Science Fiction DVDs #15,057 in Drama DVDs |
| Customer Reviews | 3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars (650) |
| Director  | Julian Roman Pölsler |
| Item model number  | 741360538337 |
| MPAA rating  | PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) |
| Media Format  | Color, Dolby, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen |
| Number of discs  | 1 |
| Product Dimensions  | 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces |
| Release date  | October 22, 2013 |
| Run time  | 1 hour and 48 minutes |
| Studio  | Music Box Films |
| Subtitles:  | English |

## Product Details

- **Contributor:** Julian Roman Pölsler, Martina Gedeck
- **Format:** Color, Dolby, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- **Genre:** Drama
- **Language:** English, German
- **Runtime:** 1 hour and 48 minutes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Stunning Premise and An Evocative Film
*by M***E on October 31, 2015*

The Wall is a remarkable movie coming out of Germany. The premise of the story is intriguing and a bit uncomfortable to contemplate, but...the transformation of the woman who has to deal with this unexplainable event is depthful and moving. One must listen closely to her narrative as she journals her experience because it contains gems of wisdom. This is not a sit on the couch and eat popcorn movie, but if you want to be moved and changed in some way, this is a masterful movie. Forget it if you classify yourself as ADHD...

### ⭐ Why?
*by C***O on November 28, 2013*

With an interesting premise, and beautiful scenery, I was sucked in. A tail of self discovery for a woman isolated in the wilderness, a mysterious invisible wall (The Dome anyone?), I figured "why not?" I knew that a narrated style movie such as this would be a little art-housey but this one was too far. I'd warn that there are spoilers ahead in this review, but seeing as the film is pre-spoiled I shall not bother. To sum things up so you don't have to waste your time, the entire movie is narrated by this woman who is writing down her experiences of the last few years of being trapped by a large invisible barrier inside an Austrian country side. She can see a few neighbors mysteriously frozen in place, though other elements of the environment, such as flowing water, seem to continue outside of her bubble. She fends for herself taking care of livestock and farming inside her prison and writing very flowery and often poetic phrases about her lonely existence and how calm she is beginning to feel. This goes on for a few years, a time much shorter than watching the movie felt, until a mysterious man miraculously shows up one summer day to hack her young bull to death and kill her dog, the only friend she has. Then she runs out of paper and concludes her tail. The End. The actress, without having many lines, was quite good I thought. Like Tom Hanks in Cast Away. The scenery was also spectacular, and that's all I can say positively about it. My first real complaint is that it seems she is going on a personal journey with her isolation and introspection. Unfortunately, we the audience, cannot go on it with her has we have no idea who she was before. Was she like Tom Hank's Cast Away character and too busy and hectic to realize the life he was leading? Was she a narcissist? A bad person? Hated animals? Getting over a lost love? We just don't know. All we know is that she came up to a secluded hunting loge with a couple, even though she hated hunting, and didn't want to go into town with them right after they arrived. We know nothing about her, her relationships, her reasons, or her purpose. This made a lot of the dramatic introspection she was narrating pointless. I guess we also know that she somehow had enough basic farming knowledge to survive even though she clearly stated she was weak and unaccustomed to that type of work. I also found her lack of curiosity about the wall disturbing. I take that she couldn't go too far away from the cow, as it needed tending, but after the initial shock wore off she didn't seem to want to do things like dig under the wall, find out how big it was, or find out if others existed in it (fires, smoke signals, etc...). She just accepted it and her situation and moved on with her potato harvesting. To end the way it did felt like a cheap emotional ploy. Let's kill off her best friend, the dog, out of the blue by having a mysterious man show up. Who was this man? Where did he come from? Why was he there? Was he just insane or did he have a purpose? Unless he was totally off his rocker wouldn't his first impression upon coming across the logging and domesticated animals of someone else after 3 years be more "yea I'm not alone!!!" rather than "let me axe this cow and dog to death"? If he was insane then how did he last so long though the harsh winters? Wouldn't her reaction likewise be more to find out where he came from, where the wall ends, if others are there, etc... than just to shut herself off in her little house? Finally, the abrupt ending without any questions being answered left a bad taste in the mouth. Don't tell me about how you get to make up your own conclusions, as that's just lazy storytelling. We find out nothing about the wall, what her future is like, if the world survives, nothing. I finished the movie asking what was the point and why did I ever waste my time on this?

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ They don't get it
*by D***N on February 13, 2025*

The movie can only be understood as a dream. Otherwise, there's no way to reconcile the science fiction like invisible wall with the rest of the story, which is extremely earthy. Of course you could imagine some way if you liked, but this idea, I think, leads to the correct interpretation of the story as a dream and then to the possible interpretations of the unseen story being told by the dream. All the characters (even the dead ones) represent something the main character has experienced in her normal life. She is basically coming to own her own life and she has to go through a process of transformation to do that. She's been hurt, badly, by events in the backstory. Here are some clues (without taking away all the fun): She's in a hunting lodge, not a farmhouse. The people in the farmhouse are dead. Her dog is a scent hound, he really hurts his nose by running into the wall, which is invisible (and odorless, apparently) and he essentially tries to lead her away from it. As the story progresses, she understands him more and more. His name is "Lynx". What is her dog like? Her cow's name is Bella; she's pretty high maintenance. There's also the cat and the crow (both white outcasts from nature) The cow gives birth to a bull, but even the bull dies eventually. Really, all the other characters are like her spirit guides. They appear, help her through some part of her "journey" and then disappear. The writer left her readers to imagine what might happen in the future. So what happened to her? What will happen?

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