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INEXTRICABLY INTERTWINED IN THE '80s UNDERGROUND -- AMERICAN HARDCORE PUNK & THRASH METAL.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on lead guitarist of American thrash metal band METALLICA, Kirk Hammett, rocking a MISFITS "Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood" T-shirt, photographed during a "Ride the Lightning" record signing at Chris' Warped Records, Lakewood, Ohio, USA, on February 2, 1985.

"ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HELL"!!

Source: Facebook (lifted the Hammett pics from an old post of mine), Reddit, Pinterest, & X (formerly known as Twitter).

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Brian May live at the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, CA, USA (Children Of The Night - KNAC 5th anniversary concert) - February 8, 1991

This is a newly discovered Brian's appearance - apparently an All-Star jam with James Hetfield (Metallica), George Lynch (Dokken), Taime Down (Faster Pussycat), Bruce Kulick (Kiss), Bob Kulick (Meat Loaf), Phil Soussan (Ozzy Osbourne) or Steven Adler (Guns N' Roses). I've never heard of this event before but there seems to be replica T-shirts and posters available so it was probably a famous concert.

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MyFitteds - New York Yankees “Ride The Lightning” Metallica Fitted

2024 New York Yankees USA Tour Dates ⚡️

6/25-6/26 New York Mets

6/27-6/30 Toronto Blue Jays

7/9-7/11 Tampa Bay Rays

7/12-7/14 Baltimore Orioles

726-7/28 Boston Red Sox

7/29-7/31 Philadelphia Phillies

8/12-8/14 Chicago White Sox

8/16-8/18 Detroit Tigers

8/26-8/28 Washington Nationals

9/2-9/4 Texas Rangers

9/6-9/8 Chicago Cubs

9/17-9/19 Seattle Mariners

9/20-9/22 Oakland Athletics

Inspired by tour t-shirts / merch of famous bands, this New York Yankees was something I always wanted to do.

The front features the rock band inspired Yankees logo with enhanced strategic metallics and gradated embroidery.

For the side, I opted for the 27X WS Champs Patch, which was inspired by the tour dates usually found on the back of said tees.

Finally a placid gray UV and black sweatband with iridescence and GITD details throughout.

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Color: Jet Black / Ink Blue / Silverstone Metallic

Material: Polyester

Features:

Metallica Ride the Lightning Front Logo

Placid Gray Undervisor

Black Sweatband

Chain Stitched New Era Flag

Stylized 27X World Series Champions Side Patch

MLB Batterman Rear Logo

Mixed Medium Embroidery

Metallic Embroidery

Inspired by Metallica's Ride the

Lightning Album Cover

Officially Licensed

Country of Origin: China 🇨🇳

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Metallica 42nd anniversary 1981-2023 thank you for the memories signatures tee shirt

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IN PRAISE OF AMERICAN HORROR/HARDCORE PUNK -- AND ONE OF THE SUB-GENRE'S BIGGEST FANATICS.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the late, great Cliff Burton (1962-1986), musician/bassist of American thrash metal band METALLICA, pictured here wearing a MISFITS "Earth A.D./"Wolf's Blood" T-shirt during a "Ride the Lightning" record signing at Chris' Warped Records, Lakewood, Ohio, USA on February 2, 1985.

In memoriam -- Clifford Lee Burton (February 10, 1962 – September 27, 1986). His "deathday" was yesterday, but I was purposely saving this post for "Thrashback Thursday," and that's today.

Sources: Discogs (sleeve art), Facebook (an old post of mine), & Pinterest.

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A really nice article from this month's Classic Rock (6/2022) focusing on the atmosphere of Ghost shows and what Tobias is like on stage versus in private.

THE GREAT PRETENDER

The choral wells of Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere Mei, Deus drift through the audience at Manchester Arena. It’s Saturday night, the mood is high and a cathedral is being built on stage. Behind the curtain, eye catch glimpses of the sort of theatre normally associated with the Iron Maidens, Rammsteins and Alice Coopers of this world. Giant steps. High walls and arches. Ornate stained glass window backdrops. More dry ice than Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights video, dotted with a scattering of men in hard hats. Stonehenge this is not.

The curtain drops. The opening guitar glitter of Kaisarion bursts into our faces. Punters wearing nuns’ habits, crucifixes and corpse paint gaze up like children in a sweet shop, while Nameless Ghouls in gas masks are illuminated by cracking pyrotechnics. As riffs and drum thunder roll out like groovy cavalry, marrying heavy mystique with Def Leppard-sized hooks, it’s easy to see why Metallica and Dave Grohl are fans. The most rapturous applause, though, is reserved for their mercurial leader. An impishly charismatic figure, masked by black-and- white face paint. Hair slicked back with grey. Microphone in hand. Part Victorian military dandy, part Joel Grey’s MC from Cabaret in tight black skinny jeans and black leather gloves, Papa Emeritus IV strides, skips and gesticulates with the precision and campery of a seasoned Broadway star. And although there are thousands watching, those painted eyes of his have an oddly penetrative, Mona Lisa-esque effect. All-seeing. It’s as if he’s looking at you. Welcome to the Ghost show.

A few hours earlier we’re in a Grade Il-listed hotel on Manchester's Oxford Road, lifting an armchair with a short, polite Swedish guy in a band T-shirt. Silver chains clink at his wrists. A skull ring hulks round one finger. His generously spiked hair is jet-black, contrasting with almost bloodless skin. He could have wandered in from one of the rock pubs across the road.

"Master,” Tobias Forge says with a smile, pulling back his jacket, when asked about the T-shirt. “They’re an American eighties death metal band. They’re not very good, but they're cool!”

It’s surreal to think that this is the man who will slink across the stage as Papa Emeritus IV tonight (the latest incarnation of Forge’s fictitious, ecclesiastical one-man dynasty). The 41-year-old conductor at the heart of the 700 cues, 45 or so crew members and four tour buses that make up the Ghost experience; a production that, in some ways, feels more akin to the Cirque Du Soleil than to a rock show. It’s a globetrotting colossus, following its doomy, cultish origins in Linkoping, Sweden in 2006.

“Some people prefer ad-hoc rock bands like Pearl Jam or Springsteen, who come up on stage in whatever they wore on the street and just start playing,” he says, quickly adding: "which I love; I love Pearl Jam, I love Bruce Springsteen. But that’s not what we do. We don’t improvise that much. A lot of the show is free-form, which makes it edgy, but there’s still a script.”

Having released a gloriously grandiose new album, Impera, Ghost returned to the live circuit this year as co-headliners with Volbeat in the USA, causing some political “head-butting” when Ghost went on second every night. As Forge implies, they are not so much ‘hard to follow'-’ as logistically impossible. Now; at the start of this European tour, they’re very much on top - with Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats and Twin Temple in support slots.

“Co-billing for us is not necessarily a great thing,” Forge reasons, carefully. “What we’re doing is not compatible with many other bands. Not necessarily the sound; I don’t see a problem for a fan to absorb both. But if it’s going to be a forty-five-minute changeover, is that great for the crowd that paid for these tickets? I can order ten courses I really like, but I can only eat one. I’m not sure it’s doing the desired trick.”

There’s a cool flash of fanaticism about Forge, just detectable behind his approachable demeanour. He looks you straight in the eye. He pauses to consider his answers. During our conversation he’ll compare putting on a show to a football season, making a film, running a restaurant and going to war. All are analogies he’s used before, and all support the sense of auteurship that ripples through the Ghost world (as well as echoing Forge’s own fondness for sports, Stanley Kubrick and good food).

But there are other sides to him. The geeky classic-rock lover, who watches live Queen and Iron Maiden clips to get pumped before shows. The guy who on tour goes out to football and hockey games. The arty urbanite with friends in music, film and amusement parks back home in Stockholm. The happily married father of teenage twins, who binge-watched The Sopranos, Game Of Thrones and Stranger Things with his family over lockdown. The reluctant frontman who, if he had his way, would be Ghost’s guitarist.

“But that’s like complaining about not being the general because you got to be the king instead. I would have felt more fluid being the guitar player, but the difference would have been that, mask or no mask, my on-stage persona would have been closer to my real one - my actual one, my private one - than it is nowadays.”

Over at the arena, the gap between those personas increases. As Impera's lead single Call Me Little Sunshine starts up, Papa returns in glittering cardinal's robes. He looks like a Christmas tree. Freddie Mercury via the Vatican. Liberace for the holy orders.

Back home, conversely, Forge marvels at the chops of friends like Fredrik Akesson, Opeth’s lead guitarist who played on Impera, embellishing the whole record with splashes of virtuosic, 80s-rocking flair.

“I mourn the fact I get to play the guitar so little over the course of my life, because I love playing,” Forge says, twisting his skull ring, “and I think I am a better musician than I am a singer. I just happen to be a good singer in Ghost.”

A self-described jack of all trades, the place you're most likely to find Forge, on tour, is behind a drum kit. Backstage he pounds through Top 40 hits as part of a mobile workout regimen. Foreigner’s Urgent, Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas, Lenny Kravitz’s Are You Gonna Go My Way? and The Guess Who’s American Woman are all on his go-to list.

In the past he relished the travel aspect of band life, ducking out to explore new sites and record shops. So much so that it began to tire him out, pre-show. Now, he mostly sticks to a strict routine of workouts and walking with audiobooks - most recently Jan Guillou’s Carl Hamilton series, Sweden’s politically astute answer to James Bond.

“Ten books, eighteen hours,” he says. “That’s good for ten thousand steps, and you can do calls when you’re walking.”

On stage the seven Nameless Ghouls are in similar ship shape, darting from the menace of From The Pinnacle To The Pit to a galloping Spillways - complete with guitar duels, knowing glances and gestures. Even without facial expressions their performances feel characterful, not to mention being shit-hot on a technical level. It says a lot about them, as people, that they’re happy to be in this group anonymously.  

For almost a decade Forge was similarly hidden. He spoke to journalists from behind curtains or masks. Officially he only revealed his identity in 2017, following a lawsuit from ex-bandmates. These days, living in a celebrity-heavy pocket of Stockholm (the Skarsgard acting dynasty are among his neighbours) he’s relatively undisturbed, except for any passing rock fans who recognize him from video interviews on YouTube, and a few Google images. How does that level of visibility sit with him? Does he enjoy doing interviews, for instance, while unmasked?

“I guess from a therapeutic point of view, speaking so much about yourself, your background and your motivation of why you’re doing this, it does have a cathartic function. But I definitely reach a point each day where I don’t want to talk any more. As much as people think that as an artist you like to revel in yourself...” he catches himself. “Look, I’m an exhibitionist, of course, but I definitely get to a point where I get really bummed talking about myself after a while.”

Perhaps this explains the desire to inhabit other personas, and makes sense of his latent acting ambitions.

“Yes,” he says with a laugh when asked if there are specific characters he’d love to play, “but I can’t say because it's part of how I view myself, and that might not rhyme with the rest. As an actor you are working with your physical attributes as your currency, so I know being five foot nine, white, with a certain body shape, I couldn’t do everything on the menu.”

In the Ghost universe, Forge bypasses such restrictions, starring in it and directing the various other parts. Mid-set at Manchester Arena, the audience’s mouths stretch into grins as Papa Nihil - an ancient ‘mentor’ cardinal in aviators - is wheeled out in an open coffin. This was not expected. Supposedly they killed him off in Mexico just before the first lockdown, but here he is, ‘reanimated’ by stage hands to deliver Miasma's saxophone solo. It’s all very Alice Cooper, with a dash of Benny Hill.

“I like to compare it to running a restaurant, because people...” Forge searches for the words. “You grew tired of your quiche or whatever a long time ago, even if it’s your grandma’s recipe, but people expect it to taste the same every night because they don’t come in and eat it every day. They expect the quiche to taste the way it did, because they brought two friends with them.”

So what dish would Ghost be?

“Because of the mixed nature of the music that’s combined,” he muses, “I guess it’s a calzone, with sushi in it, with cream on top.”

As the hits keep on coming, they make good on that sushi-calzone-with-cream-on-top concept. The Ghouls storm into Kraken-sized riffer Cirice, and Papa Emeritus reappears in bat wings – because why not? There are smoke jets, more dry ice, new robes, a fancy hat that (at certain angles) looks a bit like antlers... And then come the flames. Big ones. Fucking loads of them, giving the pyromaniac crews behind Slipknot and Rammstein a run for their money, before leading into He Is - a satirical yet stirring singalong with ABBA in its veins, completed following the suicide of Forge’s friend Selim Lemouchi (of Dutch occult rockers The Devil’s Blood) in 2014. Four years previously, his music-loving older brother died suddenly, the same day the first Ghost songs were released. Death runs deep in this music - in the fortitude it’s taken Forge to run with it.

But they're not done yet.

The metallic crunch of Mummy Dust is swiftly offset by Papa donning a blue sparkly jacket. “Let me hear you say ‘oomph’!” he roars into the audience, followed by what might be “did you feel it in your pants?!” - but it’s hard to tell through the make-up and an accent that sounds increasingly Compare The Meerkat-esque.

Indeed, for all Papa’s suave qualities his stage banter comes with an enchantingly befuddled edge; somewhere between a swashbuckling lothario and a slightly mad pensioner, but less creepy than that sounds. Is this the same softly spoken Scandi guy who chatted earlier about doing his 10,000 steps and watching hockey games?

“We’ve had a good hang!” he declares, by way of a pre-encore ‘farewell’. “I hope you leave feeling... well hung?!”

From there it’s time for a dynamite brace of Enter Sandman (they provided a version for Metallica’s Blacklist guest covers album last year) and Dance Macabre - the least metal song ever recorded by a band with such a metal-friendly image as Ghost.

“Just one more?” Papa shouts to the whooping masses. “And then you go out into the Manchester night, and either you fuck someone, or you go fuck yourself! How about that?”

With that, the band nail an addictive Square Hammer, and the cheers shoot up by several decibels.

Back at the hotel, just before he disappears to gear up for the evening ahead, Tobias Forge considers how it feels when he steps on stage. Transformed. Ready.

“I would say phenomenal,” he replies. “It’s one of the few moments where I don’t think about much else. Most of the time I am thinking of something else. I’m worrying about all kinds of stuff at the same time. The best nights are when you flow through them, and the worst nights are when you think: ‘Oh shit, I forgot the last step, I need to go back,’ and you start thinking about it.”

If that happens tonight, they hide it well. Curtain calls arc taken to the pastoral strains of Emmylou Harris's Sorrow In The Wind, and as Papa and the Ghouls wave, blow kisses and throw plectrums into the adoring audience there’s something reassuringly innocent about it all.

When children learn the truth about Santa Claus, they often keep believing anyway because they want to. They play along with stockings by the chimney, or Dad/Uncle Pete/whoever in the red suit, because it’s more fun that way. The same thing happens with Ghost. Ultimately it’s make-believe. A mystery with a sparkling rock soundtrack.

 ‘Fun’ can feel like a dismissive term. But as we’ve been reminded tonight, there is power in fun. Power in big, rousing guitars. Power in brilliantly entertaining spectacles. Not least of all, in recent times, fun offers cathartic escape like little else. The means to smile instinctively. Restoration for anyone who’s ever felt crushed by life.

“I would put on Live After Death before going on stage because it takes me near to the dream, rather than thinking of the practical nature of today,” Forge reasons. “That’s what it’s all about. All we’re doing is dreaming.”

Fistfulls of 'Ghost dollars' are scattered by roadies as house lights go up, the smell of burning permeates the arena and, finally, we wake up.

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Interview Tag 📝

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Rules: Answer the questions and tag 20 blogs you are contractually obligated to know better!

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Gender: She/her

Zodiac: Aries

Height: 172cm

Time Currently: 1.31am

When is your birthday: April 8th

Favourite Bands/groups: Black Stone Cherry, Deftones, Korn, Five Finger Death Punch, Aerosmith, Iron Maiden, Linkin Park, Metallica, Slipknot, Bad Wolves, Falling in Reverse, Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, and many others. For K-Pop groups, B.A.P, GOT7, VIXX, Stray Kids, Ateez, Seventeen. 

Favourite Solo Artist: Hm... Don’t really have one... Maybe... Corpse.

Song Stuck in Your Head: I’m actually listening to music so I don’t have a particular song stuck in my head.

Last Movie You Watched: I don’t remember.

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When You Created Your (Main-)Blog: In 2014, I think.

Last Thing You Googled: Bad Wolves (to check why Tommy left the band).

Other Blogs: @timetodreamtogether but I think I’ll delete it soon.

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How Many People Are You Following: 98 kittens.

How Many Followers Do You Have: More than 1k but most of them are pretty silent or are p*** blogs.

Average Hours of Sleep: It depends.

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Instruments: I’d like to play guitar but, sadly, I don’t play any instrument.

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Dream Job: Bartender.

Dream Trip: South Korea, Japan, Ireland, Iceland, Germany, New-Zealand, USA, Peru, etc... 

Favourite Food: Don’t really have one so let’s just say meat.

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Favourite Song: Dream On by Aerosmith.

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Los geht’s

Von mehreren Seiten wurde mir die Doku-Serie Tiger King (USA 2020) empfohlen: Darin gebe es tolle, unvorhersehbare Wendungen und spannende Protagonist*innen. Mein Seheindruck war allerdings ein anderer.

Bis zum Ende habe ich nicht verstanden, worum es eigentlich geht. Die Serie springt von einem Spektakel zum nächsten, ohne einen für mich ersichtlichen roten Faden. Ein wirkliches Interesse für die Protagonist*innen und ihre Faszination für Großwild konnte ich auch nicht erkennen. Außerdem verletzt der Regisseur elementare Regeln des Dokumentarischen, wenn er Menschen zu Ereignissen befragt, die sie selbst nicht erlebt haben (z.B. wird „Joe Exotic“ in Folge 3 zum Kronzeugen für den angeblich Mord von Carole Baskins Ehemann). Am meisten stört mich aber die Tendenz, alle Protagonist*innen auf ihre niedrigsten Bewegründe zu reduzieren. Obwohl die Serie häufig auf sehr wackliger Basis argumentiert, gibt es kaum Raum für Ungewissheiten. Alles ist sehr eindeutig und vor allem sind die Gezeigten eindeutig schlecht. Auch wenn das angesichts der Behandlung der Tiere vielleicht als gerechte Strafe erscheinen mag, das Ausstellen von Menschen finde ich dokumentarisch doch eher uninteressant. Die Serie erinnerte mich allerdings an einen Text, den ich vor einigen Jahren mal für einen anvisierten, aber niemals realisierten Fajo-Empfehlungsblog geschrieben habe. In dem Beitrag empfehle ich einen Dokumentarfilm, der das alles hat, was Tiger King mir nicht bieten konnte: Komplexe Erzählweisen, unglaubliche Wendungen, Ambivalenzen und ein Interesse für Menschen. Alle drei Teile der empfohlenen Dokumentation lassen sich immer mal wieder auf einem großen, werbefinanzierten Videoportal mit den Buchstaben Y und T im Namen finden.

Da es unter uns Fajo-Mitarbeitenden das Bedürfnis gibt, sich auch mal nichtwissenschaftlich auszudrücken, wollte ich deshalb meinen alten Text nutzen, um einen neuen Versuch für einen Fajo-Blog zu starten. In unregelmäßigen Abständen werden hier also hoffentlich Beiträge erscheinen, die beachtet werden wollen. Los geht’s mit diesem:

„Oh my god, look at his T-Shirt!“ lautete die missbilligende Bemerkung, mit der eine amerikanischen Touristin fingerzeigend ihr Kind auf mich aufmerksam machte. Im Jahr 1996 trug ich im Urlaub in Florenz stolz meine neueste Merchandise-Erwerbung der amerikanischen Death-Metal-Band Deicide spazieren. Darauf zu sehen, war ein auf dem Rücken liegender, aufgeschlitzter Jesus. Der Kauf hatte sich also gelohnt. Im selben Jahr erschien in den USA die Dokumentation Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (USA 1996), die ich kürzlich wiederentdeckte und die mich bleibend beeindruckte. Der Film dokumentiert den Prozess dreier Jugendlicher, die vor allem aufgrund ihres Musikgeschmacks und ihrer Kleidung verdächtigt werden, drei achtjährige Jungen sexuell missbraucht und grausam ermordet zu haben. Die Dokumentation ist aus mehreren Gründen bemerkenswert, nicht zuletzt, weil der Film Teil der Geschichte geworden ist, von der er erzählt.

Amateurkamera-Aufnahmen von einem Fluss, Bildunterschrift: „Police Crime Scene Video, May 6, 1993 – Robin Hood Hills, West Memphis, Arkansas.“ Über die Original-Tonspur der Polizistengespräche und Funksprüche legen sich Flageolettöne, der Beginn von Metallicas Welcome Home erklingt. Die Kamera schwenkt neben das Flussbett auf zwei nackte, totenstarre Kinderkörper, ein dritter folgt.

Schon zu Beginn der Dokumentation zeigen sich einige ihrer Wesensmerkmale. Der Film geht sehr nah heran, vor allem weil die Regisseure Joe Berlinger und Bruce Sinofsky das Vertrauen aller relevanten Beteiligten gewinnen konnten. Wir sehen Interviews mit den Angeklagten, ihren Familien und Anwälten sowie mit den Angehörigen der Opfer. Die Kamera läuft aber auch bei den Strategiebesprechungen der Verteidigung und – aufgrund des besonders öffentlichkeitsfreundlichen US-Rechtssystems – auch im Gerichtssaal. Gleichzeitig bleiben Berlinger und Sinofsky unsichtbar und stumm. Statt eines Voice-Over hört der Zuschauer Metallica-Songs als Kommentar zu den Interviewpassagen. Es war der erste Film, der Lieder der Band nutzen durfte und diese Musik ist hier nicht neutral. War ihr Konsum es doch, der den Angeklagten zum Verhängnis wurde. Ohne Kommentare macht der Film das Publikum zum Richter: Den Zuschauenden wird abverlangt, selbst ein Urteil zu fällen, wobei die präsentierte Faktenlage eine Lesart sehr wahrscheinlich macht.

Der Film steht in der Tradition des Direct Cinema von Albert und David Maysles, bei deren Dokumentarfilm Gray Gardens (USA 1975) Berlinger und Sinofsky auch mitgeholfen hatten. Er ist aber vor allem auch ein Vorläufer, des True-Crime-Booms, den wir seit der Ausstrahlung des US-Podcasts Serial 2014 erleben. Paradise Lost erzählt schon sehr früh und ungeplant seriell eine komplexe Geschichte mit unglaublichen Wendungen und sehr dankbaren Charakteren, da dem Film noch zwei weitere über die angeklagten und schließlich verurteilten sog. West Memphis Three folgten. Fast sieben Stunden verfolgte ich also gebannt das Leben von Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin und Jessie Misskelley.

Es sind nicht die menschlichen Abgründe der Tatmotive für die Kindermorde, die im Zentrum des Films stehen, sondern das Milieu, in dem Jugendliche aufgrund ihrer Andersartigkeit kaum eine Chance auf Gerechtigkeit haben. Die Regisseure zeigen scheinbar neutral alle Perspektiven auf dieses Justizdrama. Doch haben sie eine Haltung, ihnen geht es darum, die Unschuldsvermutung zu bergen, die bei diesem Prozess durch Vorurteile verschüttet wurde.

Mir ging der sehr gut gemachte Film vor allem auch deshalb so nahe, weil darin deutlich wird, wie jugendliche Provokation bzw. vielleicht sogar einfach nur Andersartigkeit verhängnisvolle Folgen haben kann. Das gewissermaßen das Tragen eines T-Shirts Menschen für Jahre hinter Gitter bringen kann. Für einen kurzen Moment trat in meinem Kopf eine alternative Biografie hervor, die mich erschaudern ließ.

Florian Hannig