Die Welle, The Wave [Region All, NTSC]

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These are the only things that are not completely predictable, and that do not tend to point a finger at the audience, trying to teach them.

But then after digging a little deeper one finds out that the movie is quite heavily based on Ron Jones' social experiment The Third Wave. In fact, in many ways I was reminded of school spirit in American high schools, especially while I was watching the sports scenes. It also suggests that the film-makers share my doubts about the wisdom and ethics of stunts like Jones's, which treat children and young people as raw material for experimentation rather than as individuals). Especially when we are young, belonging to a group is important, it makes our identity, who we are -- as opposed to who everyone else is.What is frightening is that many (though not all) of them voluntarily follow the conformity through reasoning.

Other critics accused the movie of being conventionally staged, similar to a Tatort-police procedural TV series, [25] or let off steam about the "graffiti-scenes and a nearly never-ending escalating party scene.Director Dennis Gansel seems to like movies about the power of groups and how they affect the individual.