Your Color (Deine Farbe) was a really pleasant surprise that I found on Amazon Prime. It's a well-told story, with good acting from its leads, and some pretty location shooting as well. It's no surprise that Your Color has received multiple festival awards. Please don't let subtitles stop you from watching this quality indie film.
Plot summary
Hailing from disparate backgrounds, Karl and Albert bond over their desire to escape their small town existence and move to Barcelona, in search of a happier life. With their mutual sense of humor and provocative ideas, they decide to document their youthful adventures with the dream of sharing their passions publicly. Upon settling and realizing life is not as easy as expected, their resistance to normalcy finds them walking divergent paths. Unbeknownst to Karl, Albert starts experiencing personal troubles but pride and fear of revealing his secrets drives him to the edge. What was originally meant to be a harmless idea becomes an instrument for self-destruction as Albert documents his own tragic exposè.
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predictable & simplistic view of personal failure
Well acted but simplistic story about two friends, one who is trying to better himself by working / going to school and staying "on track". He is focused on improving himself in life.
The other friend is the opposite, a lazy freeloader who takes advantage of others, blames everyone else for his failings, survives off hard core drugs and alcohol, plays basketball and video games all day and parties all night (doing and selling heroine, cocaine and mdma molly). Although a "likeable" guy, his only purpose is to party and live off others. He has zero direction and puts forth zero effort to better himself.
Eventually the freeloader friend burns out and burns his bridges. He has no suooort structure left after pushing everyone away (except his one drug source whom he clings to in order to support his shady lifestyle). Even then he blames everyone else for his descent despite repeated failed attempts from his friend and mom to help.
Ultimately this is a story of personal tragedy with zero surprises and an ending you can guess from a mile away.
On the plus side the acting is decent. The actors are totally believable in their situations and artfully convey emotion. Unfortunately each character is also one sided with as much depth as a teacup. Everything said and done is predictable, which is the fault of the screenwriter and producer, not necessarily the actors who mostly just read lines.
The main reason this movie fails, or I should say, is "average", comes down to the storyline itself, which isn't sufficiently deep or complex enough to justify becoming a full length movie.
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Looks beautiful, feels beautiful.
Your Color (Deine Farbe) is a film about friends. It's a different side of love. It's the love that wants to call you out and make sure that you see your flaws that way you can fix them. And the actors are all about that. They have great chemistry between the two leads including the mother. And this film blew me away. It's got the story that fits the indie film but the production of the studio movies.
Looks beautiful, feels beautiful.
Very impressive indie film.