I should sleep and ..also wait until I can type this stuff on a laptop but ...
here we go - a little teaser:
I went to Filmfest München/Munich, bought a 15 Euro ticket for "See You When I See You" and ended up sitting in ...maybe the fourth/fifth row right in front of David or behind David and his partner. It was surreal.
When David entered the room I was literally in a state of positive shock, thinking: whyyyyy? what? he's hot and charismatic af. And he hasn't even said a word. Idk if the light was so good or whatever but the way he almost shy-ly walked to his chair? Not only cute but: he looked so young and elegant.
When he gave his speech I was like...whoa he prepared a speech!? 🧐 When he told the "good luck in customs" anecdote I was like: somebody is in a talkative mood! Will he talk that much the next 30 minutes? Haha. Might have been some audhd compensating thing or something 🤪😭🤣
He looked so good standing on that stage. But I guess who wanted to could see that in the filmfest upload on yt.
Fun facts:
-David had a very boyish quality about him ij terms of looks and movements and...all the superficial stuff
-I'm a millennial and there were two millennials to my right whom I met there. To my left sat two other millennials. Behind me sat a german dude called Jüüürgen who might have been in his late fifties and kept on ranting about how horrible the movie before (that he left early) and the "Identiti" screenings were. He then told his company that David "hat ja halb Hollywood flachgelegt" to add that "Also wenn ich mir eine Sucht aussuchen könnte dann doch ne Sexsucht". Thanks Jürgen for that info. I had been wondering.
-The audience seemed to be a mix of typical festival goers, a bunch of official guests in reserved seats and covert and overt David fans of all age groups (over 30? although I saw a dad with two cute daughters 😭... Wait. I hope the movie wasn't too dark for them).
-the questions by Julia and Christoph were well intended but you could notice that those were infact more of a "seat of their pants" thing than actually well crafted and especially well researched questions. The david fan I was woth agreed with me that David mostly could hit play on his inner David Duchovny button. And he kinda elevated their mediocre questions (they were cute though) by some funny and thoughtful quips we've mostly all heard before but...were kinda entertaining and cute.
The movie:
I really liked it!
David was in far more scenes than I thought, btw. The character isn't as underwritten as most of his other recent roles (excluding Bucky and WHL). And I think it's definitely one of the best movies he's ever done.
In the first third of the film I found myself wondering if the stakes should've been told more drasticly..and kinda wondered where this story was actually going and what tone it tried to achieve.
When the protagonist starts emdr the story starts to really evolve and unfold in a great way. I basically couldn't stop crying. And I appreciated how they let the story remain "human" or ..what we would call "realistic" or "small". It feels so truth- and powerful.
I think it's an incredibly powerful story about a (especially) male psychological crisis/a man experiencing trauma - and how to move on WITH and in spite of it. The ORDINARY PEOPLE comparisons are very true but....just not aesthetically/visually/tonally.
great movie
