Eine Leseprobe aus:
Elizabethtown von Norbert Lang

"Life is like opening an unknown door. You never know what is waiting behind.
An all American family, living in Oakland California: Saul Naumann is professor in Berkeley for religions, his wife Miriam is a doctor in a laboratory, the son Aaron is going to college and their daughter Eliza, about 11 years old is taking part on spelling-competitions. They are working hard and push their children forward to do also, but sometimes getting over the emotional needs and support, everybody requires.
Eliza is spelling the words and wins. When her father starts to get attention to it, more and more we become aware, that there is something going on, which is unusual and as her mother asked her what happens with her when she is spelling the words, she says she can see the letters in front of her, like pieces.
That pushes her mother into confusion because she is having a double-life. She has stolen hundreds of pieces of little goods, jewelry things from people’s houses, stored it in a garage anywhere else. At the end she is arrested, while walking on the streets in pajamas and sent to a psychiatric hospital. Nevertheless every scene goes towards the final competition in New York…
Creativity comes from the unconscious, but also suffering …I think we find various spaces inside our self, which are all connected with each other and we are able to step from one room into the other, it only depends for how long to we decide to stay. As a very complex subject, it is not easy to explain it within regarding these films. Only one – it needs action from outside, something which activates an emotional shock. I think it was the failure of Miriam breaking into another house by night. Saul found her sleeping at the kitchen table, not knowing what to do. It led into a suffering and so Miriam found herself on the street.
There remains one important thing unregarded! I am wondering if Miriam started to steal those little pieces that it began when she realized something inside herself to understand, that her husband wasn’t able to deliver what he once promised. Because there is one scene in bed together, where he said to her, he will fix together what has broken before (sometimes we could see sequences of a car accident where she lost her parents and she survived with no perceptible scratches).
To reflect it in a sociological way, I’m wondering about her deeds, if society should hesitate to judge what she was doing. In other words – yes she has stolen things from other people which are probably important to them. But once, police opened the garage and you see all the pieces hanging down from the ceiling, connected together in a sound of reflecting lights, shining through kinds of different curtains like – it’s art, definitely art. So why not wait that people can watch it like in an exhibition and think about what happened to her and what little pieces mean to all of us. Facing her broken childhood, shouldn’t we being graceful? There are so much more important things in life: we experience loss –a broken heart is more than little pieces represent and “Katrina” over New Orleans destroyed a whole area. Let’s just think about that.”

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