Combat Girls (David Wnendt, 2011)

 

Fame and popularity is mostly a most unfair game. Things and artistic pieces that have incredible value, many times, end up being obscure pieces seen or heard or read by a very small audience. When I first saw Combat Girls I said to myself, "that is the B-side of American History X, no doubt about it." And of course American History X is a movie known to the whole planet and critically acclaimed, when Combat Girls is hardly remembered by anyone, outside Germany. That is a fucking, dirty shame, I must say. The purpose of the article is not to insinuate that American History X is not a worthy movie, it's by far a brilliant film, but I think that Combat Girls dug a bit even deeper to the theme of neo-Nazis. 

First of all it features a female lead. Meaning a female neo-Nazi played incredibly accurately and realistically by the German-Ukrainian actress Alina Levshin. But even if you look at the movie as an entity, the film is infallible in its depiction of these living monsters. You feel the hate of these people so deep inside you, that you almost get scared. The film "plays" with realism and grittiness that you rarely see in a movie. You sense the sweat of these pigs at you back running like a small river on you. And so in that way, what more can you ask from a movie, I wonder? Combat Girls has everything it's needed to make a heartbreaking, shocking drama movie. And the film is hardly known outside Germany. So much for fame and... fortune. They both suck if you ask me.