German shock genre cinema's mistrust of the culture's supposed rejection of its fascist history is an essential motivator (see also NEKROMANTIK for example). It's easy to focus on the simple fact of this young girl's ultimately violent obsession with a pop star but it's more about her discovery that the object of her desire is just as integrated into the adult patriarchal world that she hopes to flee with her fantasy. One entrenched system of control (parents, teachers, police, media) hasn't been removed or substituted but simply re-skinned, made more insidiously attractive. Maybe the only course of action is to consume it as completely as it has consumed us, to hybridize. Or is that another trap? Insane soundtrack on this too.
