Germany today: a downtrodden nation riddled with class and
culture clashes. High School teacher Rainer Wenger misses out on teaching the
topic of anarchy in Project Week and is stuck with autocracy instead. To make
the lesson more inclusive and fun, Rainer decides to conduct an experiment to
teach the students how a totalitarian government works. It begins as a
role-playing game, a sort of club that is formed for the week, but by the third
day students are taking it too seriously and The Wave is formed. By midweek the
students are ostracising those who aren’t members of The Wave and when a
violent fight erupts during a water polo game, Wenger realises that the
experiment must be stopped. But by Friday it’s too late; The Wave is out of
control.
Based on a true story, The Wave
is a brilliantly political and moving piece of cinema that’s riddled with
drama, education, politics, and the high of unity. Beginning as a sort of
edgier Dead Poets Society it quickly
escalates into a full-blown spine-tingling drama with a climax that will shock
and tremble you. The Wave is
absolutely brilliant!
Germany today: a downtrodden nation riddled with class
and culture clashes. High School teacher Rainer Wenger misses out on teaching
the topic of anarchy in Project Week and is stuck with autocracy instead. To
make the lesson more inclusive and fun, Rainer decides to conduct an experiment
to teach the students how a totalitarian government works. It begins as a
role-playing game, a sort of club that is formed for the week, but by the third
day students are taking it too seriously and The Wave is formed. By midweek the
students are ostracising those who aren’t members of The Wave and when a
violent fight erupts during a water polo game, Wenger realises that the
experiment must be stopped. But by Friday it’s too late; The Wave is out of
control.
As I mentioned before, this movie is based on a true story, making it
all the more incredible and adding much of its shock value.
The script is
particularly wonderful because it’s both dramatic and educational. Most of the
heated discussions, which happen within the classroom, are politically based as
well as drawing many references from history. As a result, the film greatly
conveys the modern attitude of German students and their opinions on the state
of their nation and the bloody events of their nation’s past. It’s a rare movie
that makes politics and history really gripping and deserves an accolade for
that fact alone.
All the actors were brilliant, delivering memorable and
wonderfully dramatic performances as each character and their troubled home
life is somehow or other affected by The Wave. But without a doubt, special
rounds of applause are due to Jurgen Vogel who stars as Rainer Wenger and
Frederick Lau who plays over zealous student, Tim. Both delivered most moving
and hugely memorable performances with Jurgen playing the role of the cool
teacher turned dictator with remarkable conviction and Frederick delivering a
most adorable and quite shocking towards the end performance as Tim.
Starring
Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Christiane Paul, Jacob Matschenz, Cristina do
Rego, Elyas M’Barek, Maximillion Vollmar, Max Mauff, Tim Oliver Schultz,
Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow, and Amelie Kiefer, The Wave is a remarkable and wonderfully edgy and grungy movie
packed with action, defiance, union, drama, romance, politics, and change.
You’ll be glued to the screen from start to finish! It’s brilliant!
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