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"When you see The White Sound, you immediately go insane. Unless he is already insane. Then he becomes normal." - A nice quote that Tobias Amann brought to mind the other day when he had a beer at our video store. Actually he doesn't like to talk about The White Sound, because his partner Hans Weingärtner didn't want to share the fame. Anyway, after the conversation I wanted to watch The White Sound again and remembered the dawn of German film back in the early 00s, the x-filme distributor and of course Daniel Brühl. He embodies Lukas, who is new in the big city and moves into his sister's flat share. Lukas knows that this is where real life begins! He immediately throws himself into the night. He takes chemical substances that he doesn't really know. I always find that remarkable. An experiment on his own body with an uncertain outcome. Most of the time the feeling of having successfully challenged the body prevails. But sometimes you hear voices, like Luke. What a horror! Lukas feels persecuted. "Paranoid schizophrenia", the doctors call it. Lukas has to fight against himself, against his own perception. A fight that drives him all the way to the Spanish Atlantic coast. There he finds something that could save him: The white noise... The scolded Weingartner himself never understood his film as a study of schizophrenia. For him, Lukas is a young man with problems of adaptation, who acts psychotically at times. Schizophrenia may well be considered the worst nightmare. One feels persecuted, betrayed by one's own perception. The contact to reality gives way to indescribable fear. This clinical picture is presented here almost like a "dogma" film. Thanks to the blurred camera, we have no choice but to watch with great effort. And that's how it should be, because The White Sound challenges us! A stroke of luck, which two film students together are responsible for. Even though one of them stole the show from the other...