I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

One of my all time favorites.

Tom Schilling gives a solid performance here, starring as Niko Fischer, a young man, living in Berlin, who's lost his way in life and is currently broke, unemployed, has no serious relationships, and is still taking tuition money from his father without telling him he dropped out of law school some 2 years before.The satirical film will capture one day in Niko's life, as he encounters all kinds of bizarre situations, I imagine trying to be in the vein of Scorsese's "After Hours". He'll also meet all kinds of mostly mean-spirited and malevolent people, but one thing he'll have a heck of a time finding is a cup of coffee.Although I was intrigued enough to want to know how it would all turn out, the biggest problem for me was that I felt the filmmaker Jan Ole Gerster (making his feature film debut) went over-the-top with the mean-spiritedness and thus I couldn't find much entertainment here. I imagine we all meet these obnoxious jerks at times in our lives, so I would have much preferred more of a mixture of oddness and quirkiness rather than constant malevolence, but that's me.

"Oh Boy" is a black-and-white Berlin-set tale of melancholy starring tom Schilling and directed by Jan Ole Gerster. For the latter it is only the second movie as director and the first in 8 years. Also, he played a minor role in making "Good Bye Lenin". So, with that non-prolific background, it was certainly a bit surprising how many awards this movie achieved and that it became the great winner at the German Film Awards that year. The movie only runs for little over 80 minutes and depicts conversations and interactions between the central character and usually one or two other people. Schilling is basically in every scene of the film. All the supporting players do a very fine job too, even if they only appear in a single scene like Schüttler, von Dohnányi, Lau or Brambach, a personal favorite. I mentioned Katharina Schüttler and I liked how the words displayed on the screen "Oh Boy" perfectly fit her interaction with our "hero" early on in the film.I quite liked the music. The jazz performances with the black-and-white cinematography give the film a very unique, melancholic note. At the end, I somehow had the feeling that there was a parallel between Gwisdek's character and Schilling's. You basically knew nothing really about them, even if you watched Schilling the entire movie. You find out a lot more about everybody he interacts with. Gwisdek won a German Film award by the way for his one-scene performance at the end, but this may have also been a career awards. I preferred other nominees (his own son) and I also thought Ulrich Noethen gave a better performance here in this film as well. Maybe it was some kind of unofficial career achievement award or had to do with Gwisdek being born in Berlin. Lau and Schilling were as well, by the way. The biggest supporting player is Friederike Kempter ("Tatort"), who gives a fine performance as well as an attractive, but very unstable young woman.I enjoyed this movie a lot. I don't know if you have seen any of Jarmusch's "Coffee and Cigarettes" works, but it reminded me a bit of that, only that I liked it even more. Highly recommended and it gives us a great portrayal of loneliness and life in the big city.

They say Gerster was a film student? Funny school, didn't teach him a single thing about movie-making. That this film exists in it's current form is as ridiculous as letting a hack medicine student who can't tell a scalpel from scissors perform plastic surgery. This movie has no story, it has no characters, it has no meaning. Oh, you mean the meaning is that it has no meaning? That the guy is locked inside his inability to act? Brilliant! Now watch me take a big fat sh*t on that canvas, how you like that, you art experts? At least half of the film is super embarrassing self-referring stuff like our non-acting "hero" sitting on a movie set. Or watching a stage play. Or listening to people talk nonsense. Lots of talking heads all around. And no, this is no deep dialog. It doesn't even try to be written and/or performed in a poetic or artistic way of any sorts. It's just meaningless nonsense, 90% of the time. The movie is totally immature, narcissistic crap, and it doesn't even try rebellion... how pathetic is this? It doesn't really try anything at all. It's really just crap. And the Berlin footage? Cheap, pseudo, uninspired. Yeah it's in black in white, i can see that. Huh huh cool, huh huh. Really guys, to see artistic quality in it means you're intellect is somewhere in Beavis and Butthead land, without the coolness and subversion, that is. And that's a fact.

"Oh Boy" is a special movie and a very German one too. We follow the protagonist Niko Fischer, played by a superb Tom Schilling, through an entire day in vernal Berlin. This day is filled with several episodes in which director Jan-Ole Gerster manages to portrait the various aspects of life in modern Berlin - whether its the Kafkaesque bureaucracy one has to deal with on a daily basis or the never-ending struggle to find normality in the midst of hipsterdom and self-proclaimed avantgarde attitude which makes Berlin so popular amongst party people all over the world.What is more, Gerster even succeeds to weave Germany's grim past into the story-line by reminding the viewer every now and then how pointless and redundant many aspects of our lives are in comparison with the unatoned horrors committed by Germans on their own turf and all over Europe.Niko Fischer can be seen as the conscience of those of us who cannot help but deal with what it means to live in Germany and be a German on a daily basis. It might be even difficult to understand the movie in its wholeness for a foreigner as it is with literature by Hesse or Kafka, authors that largely contributed to this piece by making hilarious absurdity and tragedy confluent. The club toilet scene with Niko's schoolmate is key here and has almost Freudian dimensions.Anyhow, I highly recommend watching this film, last but not least because I tremendously identify with it.