{"id":7419,"date":"2019-10-11T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=7419"},"modified":"2019-10-03T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T18:26:08","slug":"mark-watches-monster-episode-11-511-kinderheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2019\/10\/mark-watches-monster-episode-11-511-kinderheim\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Monster’: Episode 11 – 511 Kinderheim"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the eleventh episode of Monster<\/i>, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Monster<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Trigger Warning: For child abuse<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Oh. Oh, so this show is not what I thought it was about at all, is it?<\/p>\n

511 Kinderheim<\/b><\/p>\n

I commented this during the video, but this episode does a fantastic job reminding us how little Dr. Tenma has to go on and how ill-prepared he is for what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s discovering. Well, not everything; I think you can see Burkhardt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s training present in this episode, but aside from that? Dr. Tenma has virtually no information on Johan. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also not really great at the whole fugitive thing? Why the fuck<\/i> does he keep using his actual name, the same name that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plastered across newspapers in Germany? DUDE, COME ON.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, it was<\/i> smart for him to seek out the Liebert\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s original home in East Germany, since that was likely to help find some sort of clue to unravel the past. But that thread goes to such an unexpected place, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still reeling from how \u00e2\u20ac\u0153511 Kinderheim\u00e2\u20ac\u009d opens the show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mythology to something even more fucked up.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We knew that the twins crossed a border and came from somewhere<\/i>, but this new storyline confuses things further than me. I figured that, given the name, the entire episode would focus on the orphanage that Johan was in before the Lieberts adopted him and Anna. So yeah, I was shocked when Dr. Tenma made it to the building and IT WAS ABANDONED, and his one possible thread was immediately worthless. Just like that, he was back at the beginning with no information and nowhere else to turn.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

OR SO I THOUGHT. You know, at least Tenma is persistent, and he goes about this without a whole lot of shame for what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll ask pretty much anyone<\/i> questions, including random passersby, which is how he manages to locate Hartmann. And lord, I thought I knew what was happening, that Hartmann was a kind man who devoted his life to children without parents, and I BOUGHT HIS DAMN MANIPULATION SO WELL. LIKE!!!! What the fuck, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all??? And given that I absolutely believe that Hartmann has been abusing the child\u00e2\u20ac\u201dDieter\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat is under his care, I have to wonder: Is anything he said about 511 Kinderheim even true? I think that the other<\/i> orphanage director verifies a lot of it, but\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 lord, what happened there? What incident occurred? Why does he know Johan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name so well, and why did he have the response he did?<\/p>\n

On top of that, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so, so terrified by the change we watch come over Hartmann as soon as Dr. Tenma left. Again, I bought his act, and I truly believe what we saw was a performance. Hartmann acted a bit frail because he wanted Tenma to see a specific version of himself, one that would be incompatible with the idea that he is an abuser. ABUSERS DO THIS, I KNOW IT BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN HURT BY THEM. I bet that Dieter\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand probably other kids in Hartmann\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s past\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwas the only one to see the real<\/i> Hartmann. Oh my god, THE SCENE WHERE DR. TENMA TRIES TO HELP DIETER ON THE STREET. The look Dieter gave Tenma! Him running away! HIM HOLDING ON TO DR. TENMA WHEN TENMA TRIED TO LEAVE. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, this is ruining me; it all fits. Dieter felt safer with Dr. Tenma, even if he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fully understand why. And what was all that nonsense about how \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dark\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the world is? Is that part of how Hartmann abuses Dieter??? WHAT IS THIS SHOW DOING.<\/p>\n

Orphanage 47<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m much more willing to trust the director of the other<\/i> orphanage that Dr. Tenma meets because the signs are there that she is<\/i> caring. That scene where she comforts one of the children felt like a direct contrast to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153intimate\u00e2\u20ac\u009d scene we got between Hartmann and Dieter. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also just as interested in what she says. I believe she corroborates most of what we heard from Hartmann, that 511 Kinderheim was run by the Ministry of the Interior and was a FUCKED UP place to grow up if you had the misfortune of being placed there. But this episode\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s final line ejected my soul into the stratosphere because EXPERIMENTS???? They did experiments<\/i> at 511 Kinderheim??? What fucking kind??? And look, Anna and Johan were separated as kids, and they went to two very different orphanages. Does that imply that Johan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s experience there shaped him into who he is? Or was this something born from an earlier incident? I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW. Oh my god, why do I watch things so slowly, I NEED THE NEXT EPISODE.<\/p>\n

The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kinderheim 511\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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