Kammerflimmern, a.k.a. Off Beat, is an astonishing film by Hendrik Hölzemann, as a first-time director. The film is given the Audience's Choice Award in New Talent Competitions of Taipei Film Festival, 2005. It is a common practice for a distributor in Taiwan to commercially screen a film that is awarded with Audience's Choice Award after a film festival and that's why I have the opportunity to see it. Kammerflimmern, which means ventricular fibrillation in German, probably points to the final scene, in which the protagonist almost skateboard away from his earthly life -- a metaphor indicating a critical condition the protagonist is in. The film starts with a car accident that caused both of his parents' death. Although survived, he lives in a haze that can not be easily dispelled. Only through another car accident in the final scene that he finds his true salvation.

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