heavy duty torture and sexual violence

Rating: 7/10 (4 July 2012)

This is a strange movie. Much it is watching people do searches on computers, adjust surveillance cameras, flip dusty ledger pages, and look through old photographs all with deadly intensity with the music signifying every pixel is of deep significance. Then it suddenly flips to scenes of ghastly torture and sexual violence. I had to leave the room. The villains are just so twisted, you can't help but enjoy the poetic justice eventually handed out to them. The heroine is a weird duck. She won't volunteer any information about herself, and she behaves unlike anyone else in film. She is officially mentally ill. I think she is inter-sexed with strong male muscles and female nipples. The film, oddly, has one of the happiest endings I can remember. The film is in Swedish(Danish?) with subtitles. My roommate and I had great fun looking for English cognates. It turns out Swedish (Danish?) is much more like English that I thought it would be. The wintry Swedish (Danish?) countryside reminds me of my home Canada, but it is definitely different. I found the Swedish ambiance the thing I enjoyed most about the movie, the wood stoves, fireplaces, stark furniture.