It’s all hunt very hard symbolic in the movie “heart”: Caroline Binder (Martina Gedeck) is suffering from congestive heart failure. Sometimes the Breathing is itself difficult, then you dreams, accompanied by the wheezing on the soundtrack, she was an astronaut, weightless, alone in space, without reference to gravity. Her husband Sebastian (Rainer Wöss), with superhuman patience, blessed, take for twenty years of consideration for the weakness of his partner, whose collection flow silky of pajamas, nightgowns and luxurious Patterns printed robes of beauty-conscious self-demonstrates caring. He goes occasionally with his briefcase out of the house, but his focus is the elegiac ailing wife, is a different type than his mother, who always think of verbally, relentlessly, with the door into the house, the delicate intimacy.
As Caroline’s doctor recommends an open-heart SURGERY urgently, it remains in waiting position. “In eight to ten days,” he could dismiss you after “in your new life,” the heart surgeon Paul Hofmann (Paul Noori). A new life? She has but one. In the confines of a hospital toilet cubicle, she fights for composure. Next door, someone spits the soul out of the body. The psychiatrist Erika Pielach (Ruth Brauer-Kvam) has terminal cancer as well as a full private, with warm-hearted Affection to daughter and granddaughter. You want to live it filled the””, the patient is Caroline confused.
we Are not our illness, and what happens to her, if we allow that it is taken from us? In her book, “heart amendment” moved by Julya Rabinowich such questions on the example of the institution that stands as a traditional Topos for life and love. On literally the metaphor take failed the Austro-German literature and film by Elisabeth Scharang (Director and book), however, sometimes. “You have touched my heart,” says Caroline upset after the surgeon has made to create their defective heart valve. The camera of Jörg Widmer shows Caroline’s post-operative examination with themselves on the example of flashing chef’s knife and a lively red fillet of beef – on the later of the flies frolic. The Rekonvaleszentin self-designed, extravagant Viennese architect-designed house with views of the hospital is not multi-core acts soon as a retreat from the impositions of the outside world, such as continuous road traffic flow, also a life. To blame for the new look, so Caroline, is the doctor. She begins to stalk him. The turns, as the Organ of the materialistic helpless in dealing with psychological imaginations, to the actual dying Erika Pielach.
