The Edukators (2004)

I tried very hard to like this German film for which I'd seen the trailer some months back -- and it did seem interesting as the "revolutionary" young people of the title broke into homes to rearrange the furniture into artistic heaps, but not to steal, and to leave their message to the rich that they had too much money or that their days were numbered.  So far so good since I guess we all passed through a stage in our lives where we believed that we were the chosen generation and that only we were capable of putting the world to rights.  However coming to this movie as one past that stage, I know that people do alter and that idealism usually gives way to practicality.  The three main characters, two young men, friends from childhood, and a girl -- originally the lover of the one but increasingly attracted to the other -- were not the easiest characters to take and reminded one just how self-centred and blinkered the young can be.  On one escapade the owner of the house returns unexpectedly and not knowing how to deal with this, they kidnap him to earn the time to put their thoughts into perspective.  However it transpires that he was an even bigger rebel than they in his day some thirty years before; while he can agree with many of their beliefs, his view is tempered by the realities of the world.  The final message of the film underlines the youngsters' belief that genuine and politically-motivated people never change -- but they do, oh they do.