Home. The quite and ordinary life of a family is torn by the opening of an highway just near the door of their house. As the plot goes on we follow the family facing the change this big monster (the highway) brings in the day by day life. The focus is the institution of family, relationship inside and how the change is managed. The director Ursula Meier is extremely accurate in providing details of family situation which grow the feeling of anxiety and claustrophobia. Even the monster is changing along the time as the limitation of the family habits increases. At first the problem is crossing road, then the limitation of their privacy when drivers stuck in traffic watch them in their home, then again pollution and noise. What impressed me much was the attitude the family face this change with. From outside is easy to think cynically to leave the house where the old fashioned life is no possible anymore. But in reality, I think in every real family, this does never happen. So people act patching step after step the ongoing emergency till they found themselves trapped inside without even possibility to breath. Whatever the monster to face is, the director seems to tell us the relation between family and home and moreover the way it works is a bomb ready to explode. The family depicted here is a little weird to say the truth. Sometimes is a normal one but not the one you'd say a 'typical family'. Even if you can say it a western family you can not guess where they live. Sometimes they recall me the Simpson. Sometimes you find yourself to think they hide a secret.
I recommend this movie because it arises many and many questions and really you find yourself wondering about. I think everyone can find their own keys and answers.
I recommend this movie because it arises many and many questions and really you find yourself wondering about. I think everyone can find their own keys and answers.