Do you know how to deal with the subject 'midlife crisis'? Maybe you are one of those people who often makes a remark like "He's probably in his midlife crisis."? Well,a midlife crisis is not a comedy; it's a difficult subject. Roehler made a great effort to make it easier for all of us. He treated this subject with the same intensity as he did one year earlier making his sober and black-and-white 'Die Unberührbare'. This time the subject asked for exaggeration and lots of colors. His forceful use of all the possibillities cinema has to offer shines new light on all the clichés that tell the story of 'Suck my dick'. Roehler displays a main character vulnerable to the laughs of the cinema audience who believe the remark mentioned above is a really funny joke. But in the end, when the main character finds salvation because he doesn't need others to measure and know himself anymore, the laugh is on them. The audience who understand the power of cinema will be pleasantly surprised; this film doesn't show a special person with a special story but the totally average, middle-aged guy and he is ever the more interesting, the whole film through.
Review of Suck My Dick
