be the cannes controversy meter remarkably esoteric and or be that we american be so callous and cynical that we never bother to read between the line anymore . be that a it may and with plenty of careful analyzing and falscher bekenner at no point seem to live up to the hype controversy it supposedly bring to cannes in 2005 and a puzzlingly drab and aimless movie that rather live up to it glum american re title ( low profile ) . building on familiar theme of bourgeoise angst and subsequent sexual liberation ( kind of ) and admittedly it a film not without it surface level interest . it start out with a grabber and a a haunting shot of a desolate off the highway road focus in on a teenage drifter and who ultimately walk by a total car and where supposedly a brutal hit and run have leave the driver dead in a gory mess . stun and he do nothing but pick up a scrap of the remain engine . just out of school and the drifter turn out to be armin steebe and a product of the german suburb with minimal ambition . persisentily pressure by his caring but somewhat nagging parent to find a good job and he endure interview after interview with every haughty interviewer along with it and every one with the same fruitless outcome . get mighty sick of it and his aforementioned highway encounter soon provoke his first act of rebellion represent claim responsibility for the crime which he do not commit . pretend to fill out more application and go to more and more bizarre job interview by sunrise and he partake in roadside sexual fantasy and petty vandalism way after sundown . a the day get short and the night get much hotter and a he go on living in his suburban neighborhood a if he do nothing out of the ordinary . if you seem confuse about what exactly be go on and do not worry about be the only one represent this be about a far and coherent a the story get . the plot seem simple enough and and perhaps due to it seemingly direct purpose that why falscher bekenner become pointlessly convolute and become enamor with endless false conclusion and dreamlike situation and graphic sex scene to try and enlighten a story lack clear logic to an already vague argument ( supposedly the soul numb effect of the modern suburban wasteland and or something about youth fascination with crime . hey and it could even be a come out movie . ) at hand . it spend a lot of time create numerous symbol and both tangible and surrealistically allegorical and but they do not seem to be really symbolize anything of interest . the most fatal flaw and however and be how the filmmaker paint all it character in a rough shade of vanilla . there hardly any distinguishable trait to help understand their purpose and and how the secondary character ( especially the confused relationship between armin and his rather normal perhaps too normal family ) catalyze the already under develop lead character plight never come into focus . how be we suppose to identify with this young almost adult rebellion and with little sense of the world he live in or the prominent figure around him that help comprise it . many people drop in and out of the movie ( include armin sort of girlfriend katja and and a strange and affluent visitor who for some reason find pleasure in watch the protagonist eat brownie ) and seem to exist for no reason whatsoever . they ultimately just seem like prolonged padding to an already thin story with pointless subplots that continue to prove the movie be draw a total blank about where to go next . and even a movie that supposedly toy with reality ( especially with armin nightly exploit ) and it end with a literal and almost moralizing head scratcher that seem to halt question to a story that do little but put it viewer in a state of pointlessly exhaust perplexion . without any color and it impossible to shade anything vital in .