Of course we know that our society is patriarchal. Not able to express feelings to his wife, which leaves him, avenging that his bloodline via his lost son is all that matters. Our anti superhero is called Dickman, because he really acts like one, though still being a nice and likable man. But what makes "In order of disappearance" stand out as much more than a hilarious masculine violent "Fargo" is that it actually is a deeper comment about how men act. A country where even the gangsters drink tomato juice and drive hybrid electric Fisker Karma cars. They are discussing the great food in the Norwegian prison system, how Norwegians are so environmental that they pick up dog litter in little bags, and the Scandinavian welfare system is discussed as a need because of the snow and lack of sun. It's seems like a film that doesn't take itself too seriously, though it still has some hilarious Tarantino-like discussions, mainly from minor roles, which adds a lot to the film. This is balanced beautifully with giving death announcements in a way I've never seen before after the body count rises. It's almost a mix, though it's a bit more dark and bloody, and has a more serious underlying theme. If you loved "Fargo", "Burn after reading", "The big white" or "In Bruges" this is the film for you. All of them recommended! It's "A somewhat gentle man" which is most like this last one. He has made the great films "A somewhat gentle man", "The last lieutenant", "Zero Kelvin", "Aberdeen" and "Comrade Pedersen" amongst others. Or what about a plot with a Swedish plowman working in the remote Norwegian high mountains dealing with Norwegian and Serbian gangsters in a vigilante film, crossed with beautiful Norwegian landscape and droll humor!?! Well, it's completely up my alley.
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There's no sex, but all violence in this, still testosterone filled, movie with a hero called "Dickman". That said as a warning, because the body-count is bigger than in any Norwegian film I've seen before. But still, this is not a film for the faint hearted. While giving loads of fun and entertainment, you'll soon discover that the film has a complex underlying theme which makes this interesting on a much wider scale. "In Order of Disappearance" is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!Īs the critics said some days ago, when Kraftidioten (International titled "In order of disappearance") premiered in the main program of the Berlin Film Festival, this is both hilarious, rough and beautiful. Say it ain't so! If you are in the mood for a foreign language crime drama with undertones of a dark, if not black, comedy, you cannot go wrong with this. In the meantime I read somewhere that this movie is going to be remade by Hollywood, but without Skarsgård. No idea why it has taken this long to get into US theaters, but better late than never I suppose. The matinée screening where I saw this at was attended very nicely. I saw it this past weekend at the E Street Landmark Theater in Washington, DC. This movie is two years old now, and for some reason just popped up in the theater. The setting of the film, somewhere in northern Norway, is gorgeous, and the use of the snow blowers and snow removal equipment is almost balletic. Sure there are chuckles here and there, but to me the film resonates a lot more on the level of how an average guy turns out to be a systematic and determined revenge-seeker. I found the movie to be a so(m)ber crime drama, in which Skarsgård plays "Joe Sixpack" who is out for revenge of his son's death. The movie was billed on Google Movie Times as a "comedy" and in a sense it might be one, but a very dark one, if that. Couple of comments: this is the latest movie from Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland in which he collaborates with Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård, who plays Nils. into the movie, but to tell you more would spoil your viewing experience, you'll just have to see for yourself how it all plays out. Nils knows his son was not an addict and decides to look into the circumstances of the death of his son. It turns out to be Nils' son, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, getting mixed up in a local drug gang. In a parallel story line, we see a couple of young men getting kidnapped and one of them eventually dies. Nils, who runs a snow removal equipment business, accepts the award with humility and dignity. As the movie opens, Nils and his wife are getting ready to accept the "Citizen of the Year" award of the local chamber of commerce. "In Order of Disappearance" (2014 release from Norway 115 min.) brings the story of Nils, a Swedish guy longtime resident of northern Norway.