Victoria Sociology

Victoria is a new independent film that leaves you at the edge of your seat and with your heart racing throughout the entire movie. It centers around a naïve and inexperienced Spanish girl named Victoria (Laia Costa) who after meeting new friends finds her night quickly spiraling out of control when they recruit her as a getaway driver for a bank robbery. The film starts off by playing into a typical Berlin stereotype- the first scene is set at a nightclub. Victoria is dancing alone among writhing, strobe-blasted bodies at an underground techno club in central Berlin. With dawn approaching, the young girl leaves the club with the intention of heading over to her café to open it up for the day. However, on her way out of the club Victoria meets Sonne (Frederick Lau) and his friends Boxer (Franz Rogowski), Blinker (Burak Yigit) and Fuss (Max Mauff). Quickly falling into flirtatious banter with the ringleader Sonne, Victoria roams the streets with him and his crew, later following them up to a rooftop to smoke cigarettes. Despite their conversations taking place in faltering English and them being complete strangers, Victoria decides to trust the boys and allows them to show her Berlin through their eyes. Because what could go wrong, right? Mere hours after …show more content…
This difficult feat is not only pulled off excellently, but one could even argue that it improves the film. The absence of various cuts per scene make the movie seem much more realistic, and during running shots (wherein the cameramen are running right along with the cast), the viewer feels as though they too are participating in this grand adventure. Because of its unique filming process, Victoria also did not have a concrete script before filming, giving the heavily improvised conversations (which are impressively pulled off) throughout the film a much more natural and realistic feel to