i can not help but wonder and after read so many negative review and if people really get this movie . yes and it be a commentary on a depraved culture . but and a the narration point out and the important thing be not what make u different from people like cannibal oliver hartwin and but what make u the same . a hartwin and thomas kretschmann do a great job in a role that can be describe in a mastery of understatement a difficult . he play a man who fantasize about eat human flesh . he find the yin to his yang in simon groembeck ( thomas huber and equally superb ) and a man who veritable truckload of i. s. s. u. e. s. see him abandon his gq model boyfriend to be eat by a guy with a herman munster haircut and a predilection for beige . go figure . they hook up over that great haven for all the demented and deprave the internet . go team . kerri russell narrate the film in a somewhat unnecessary framing device . quite frankly and what i find most irritate about the film be the most over obvious attempt to sell it internationally russell be the known face but the majority of the cast be comprise of german actor . why not film it in german . why not drop russell altogether and instead focus on the relationship between the two men . a relationship which be and in it own way and oddly affecting . for a the title implies . this be a love story . well and come on . how many movie do hollywood churn out annually base on the central premise of a woman ( once upon a time meg ryan and lately her mini me reese witherspoon ) and a man ( preferably hugh jackman but mark ruffalo or one of the wilson brother in a pinch ) who be make for each other . when you really examine it and this film be base around the same premise . these be two men who be and in russell own word a she drably narrates and a perfect match . far too much screen time be give to russell poke around hartwin farm house and look generally freak out and at the expense of the developing of the relationship between two true oddball . this be not monster and victim these be two lonely men who have find each other and and not nearly enough time be devote to the why of it all . in it look and the film very much honor it subject matter and to great effect . it be shoot mostly in mute tone and yet avoid the trap similar film have fall into namely look too dark and leave the audience wonder if they need to turn the contrast on their tv up . very much a 1970s horror movie feel . clever trick abound we see a grisly horror film be enjoy by hartwin reflect on his eyeball in an extreme close up and while in an early flashback the camera travel under the sheet to watch him read under his bedclothes a a child . the running time be concise and a mere hour and a half and with the majority of the film most difficult to watch scene occur in the final twenty minute . there be the odd unexpected moment of black humor yes and you feel guilty for chuckle while the bare bone script be strip of exposition and all the good for it . on the whole it be a well make movie and not what you would call entertaining and but a worthy watch none the less .