Results on France 2: What is the significance of this TV movie about the dangers of drunk driving?

What is it about?

Ethan, Jules, Paul and Sebastien meet one evening to celebrate one of their birthdays. During the night, the group of friends learns that Sebastian, who had more than two grams of alcohol in his blood, got into a car accident and died from his injuries.

Salome, Sébastien’s wife, who is not at the party, is taken aback: Sébastien is not the type to drink to excess, nor does he drive. So what happened that night? Why did Sebastian drink so much? Has anyone seen him drink too much? If so, why did they let it go? What might Salome say to their little boy Leo (Maxime Attard)? So many questions that Salome now wants answered.

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Sébastien is played by Belgian actor Charlie Dupont, previously seen in Hard (2008-2015) and increasingly seen on the small screen in recent years, with appearances in Papa or Maman, TV series (Season 1, 2018), Panda (Season 1). , 2023) and Sophie Cross (Season 2, 2023), as well as starring in The Fault in Rousseau (2021-2022) and soon The New (2023).

Salome is portrayed by Marie Denarno, who plays one of the main roles in the successful TF1 series, HPI (from 2021).

As for the group of friends, we no longer feature Lanick Gothrie (Ethan), a leading small screen actor of recent years, especially in recent years of casting, Aim for the Heart (from 2022), Escape (from 2021), Fear on the Lake (2020), or even Christmas … and more if you like (2023).

David Kamenos (Paul) is little known to the general public. The actor played several small roles in films such as Le transporter III (2008) and Les Tuche (2010), as well as series or TV movies such as Falco (Season 4, 2016), La vie avant toi (2023) and several others. murders… (Orléans murders in 2017, Pointe du Raz murders in 2020).

Same as Sophie de Fürst (Julie), already seen in Profilage (seasons 6 to 9, 2015-2019), Comment c’est loin (2015), Le Killer du Lac (2017), Derby girl (from 2020) Or patience again my love (from 2021).

Is it worth checking out?

Have I always done the right thing on drunken nights when someone wanted to get back on track? Like us, you’ve probably asked yourself this question at one point or another RepercussionAnd maybe even after it’s aired, with this powerful and moving original soundtrack imagined by Philip Kelly, imagined by Bobby, that will also stick in your head.

Even if it sometimes has an XXL preemptive place for road safety, with staging choices that are a little too dramatic and expected for certain scenes, or the presence of well-delivered educational scenes, it is not a TV movie. Nothing moralistic about it.

Consider some important statistics, such as the fact that alcohol-related traffic accidents cause about 1,000 deaths and 3,000 hospitalizations each year, or that the risk of being involved in an accident is multiplied by 2 with the blood alcohol content. 0.5g/l blood and 20 with 1g/l blood.

Except this, Repercussion It avoids a particularly dark and already seen end, where all criminals end up in prison, living a life of broken conscience, to the point where some people kill themselves and their burdens are too heavy. Here, the fiction brings more nuance and carries a moral that sounds like a reminder or a warning: it doesn’t just happen to others, so don’t take it lightly, because it can be a failure to help someone in danger, and it can have more repercussions than than it seems (friendly, romantic, family, professional or social, which is shown quite well in the TV movie). And if, unfortunately, one day you directly or indirectly find yourself in this type of situation, take responsibility for your actions.

In terms of storytelling, we also appreciate the fact that the widow is character-centered Repercussion Not, as one might expect, driven by revenge, nor a desire to see someone guilty at any cost. On the contrary, Salome clearly does not want to, here her friends are burdened. She already lost her husband, she doesn’t want to lose more loved ones in this story. Salome just wants to erase the gray areas surrounding her husband’s death in order to move forward, one who, like her friends, doesn’t believe in strokes of fate and who only starts lawsuits because of an insurance problem.

It’s a shame, though, that the more mundane side stories of deception, jealousy, and resentment get lumped into the main drama told in a made-for-TV movie, as if everyone who lets someone else in their house drunk is doing so because they’re being accused of something. for that.

Awarded Best Screenplay at this year’s Luchon Télé Festival, Repercussion There is a new TV movie to be discovered this Wednesday, December 6 at 21:10 on France 2.