Step forward How much difference between the film and the book story of Ralph Rothman about the boy Julian in a few summer weeks made a broad step from childhood to youth, many surprising not only his father, a coal miner, but also a neurotic mother, going to rest, overlooking neither her husband nor her son, finding both in the same place, but completely different, with a new look at relationships and life.
Love, loyalty and infidelity are ancient components of moral and ethical experiments, in different concentrations and doses form the composition of not the most original composition of the mutual connections of typical images, inscribed a predictable plot developing inside a half-century-old German town with the inherent attributes of place and time, the main of which are short leather pants of the protagonist, the size of which indicates that he has long outgrown them.
Having not found in the modern Ruhr the remnants of the former nature, the director and the operator manipulate the staged technique, creating the effect of a two-sided scene, where the concrete parapet of the loggia of a residential house becomes the edge of the ramp separating the home theater from the panorama of mountain workings, simultaneously being the line of the frame section, periodically changing the narrow format to a wide one, with the picture moving from black and white to full-color and back, without a hint of a special role of staged techniques, an interesting angle that diversifys the course of simple actions, in which, in one case, one takes on one’s face, taking on one’s role as a vivid one, while resting one, taking on one’s owning one’s own, taking on one’s own, and taking on one’s own, taking the other.
The script lacks the determination to squeeze the maximum emotions where there is not a single piquant moment to it, which is most likely the conscious choice of its authors, who are kept within the framework of a decent for a family audience interpretation of the principles of life tested by parents in order to pass them on to their sons with experience.