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What's the point of this movie?

posted 13 years ago by CaZSuede
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I wonder if the lead actress/director does a great disservice to the real Uschi Obermaier because way she is portrayed is that of a woman who lives off her looks, never is on a journey (she adopts the lifestyle of her lovers until something better comes along because it's better than her crappy life at home) and is just moody, pouty and b!tchy throughout the movie.

She has no revealations, little personal growth. I don't know why I should care about her .

Just because she slept with some of the rolling stones makes her important or fascinating enough to make a whole movie about? I don't get the purpose of making a movie about a groupie that has no real redeeming qualities or particular wisdom.

[–] mannoe 12 years ago

I agree, pouting bitch has a fabulous life without caring about or contributing anything anywhere, everything fell into her lap because of her looks...literally...what do we learn...nothing...could watch the girl playing her all night tho.....

[–] elenari-queen 12 years ago

Not every story has to have a moral, particularly when it's a portrait of a real person's life.

Uschi stated herself, for example, that she didn't join Kommune 1 out of any interest in politics but rather so she could be close to her boyfriend.

To my mind, she was more of a window into an interesting time in western counterculture and the excesses of the time. She rubbed elbows (and more) with superstars and was often left dissatisfied because of the fleeting and flimsy nature of her life.

[–] Razzbar 11 years ago

I knew very little about her until I saw this movie, and then kept waiting for the scene where she'd die of a drug overdose or something. Come to find out, she's still alive and well.

I think the movie's just a look at real-life debauchery, something audiences can't seem to get enough of. Groupies, models, rock stars are all the stuff of legend, and here we have the "true story" of one.

BTW, all that I knew of her previous to this movie is a photo layout in a girlie magazine from the early seventies. She was so damned hot, I remembered her name all these years, without hearing anything -- anything -- else about her. I remember the real Uschi in the girlie magazine as being incredibly hot, with unbelievable thick, shaggy hair. The actress sorta looks like her, but isn't as "cute". But to carry a memory about one girl, seen only in a few photographs, for some 40 years... that's not common.