The movie starts out with a punk rock cool-guy teacher type who is tasked with teaching his students about autocracy. In Germany.
Yeah. Germany.
I think they know how it works.
The premise is that our man the teacher here has to explain autocracy and devises a social experiment to get his message across. The whole project lasts a week and we see a bunch of disparate characters embracing this movement, called “The Wave”, for no apparent reason whatsoever. They invent a stupid “salute” that looks like it was invented by Zack Morris. Pointless.
I was about to put on Hackers when the payoff finally arrived.
Teacher calls an assembly and manipulates the students using his status as “the leader” into forcing a summary justice moment kinda thing on an individual student named Marco. At this point Teach calls off the experiment and tells the kids to think about what they have experienced and all.
All in all worth a watch but the first half really drags. If you thought there’d be any David Hasselhoff and North Sea surf scenes I’m afraid you’re in for a disappointment.
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This is the only attractive beast in the entire thing. And she’s not even all that. Otherwise no one in this movie will be on postcards from the “German Riviera”…..which may or may not be Poland. Checking on that.