The Privilege: Movie Review
Ka-chow! I am back with another movie review! I found this German film on Netflix and I watched it so you wouldn’t have to! There are spoilers, so beware!
The Movie
The Privilege (original title: Das Privileg) is a German horror film released just this year and directed by Felix Fuchssteiner and Katharina Schöde. Starring Max Schimmelpfennig, Lise Risom Olsen and Caroline Hartig, it was released directly to Netflix in February and tells the story of a bunch of rich high schoolers who take time out of their partying to realize there is something sinister going on. Finn is the main character and is haunted by the death of his older sister and the dark figure he saw the night of her death, when he realizes the meds he was prescribed aren’t what he though, he begins to distrust the adults in his life.
The Review
Full of angst, drugs, poor decision-making, and a random threesome scene that seemingly had no value to the plot, The Privilege was a bad movie. Let’s start with the obvious — which was the blunt lead-in to the evil fungus that the bad guys use to prime the kids for possession. In the first ten minutes of the film, we see Finn in bio class learning about the Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus. As soon as I saw that, I knew it would play a part in the film, which — to me — is lazy writing.
Next is the fact that Finn is worried about his twin sister… but throughout the movie just kinda abandons her. A mystic proves her abilities and then offers to help his sister and Finn just storms out for no reason. Then he arranges the séance and it goes wrong, so he abandons the sister. For claiming to be so worried about her, he really doesn’t do much.
The movie also reveals that all the kids being targeted for fungal infection are adopted. Then goes on to never explain why that matters or why the adults couldn’t just have their own kids. That’s it. It’s never addressed again besides to act as some random connection between all the kids.
So yeah, bad writing, bad acting, and plot holes. Skip this movie unless you just like bad movies!
0/10
x PLM
