description: Father, mother, daughter, rowing, placebo pills, midlife crisis, life is getting a drag, depressed, wanting a change, action in life wanted, cost of family life, do you accept your current life as it is?
(Geoffrey): (rating 9,5)
This movie came quite close to how I feel sometimes. It does not really matter much how old you are, but you probably thought of it sometimes, less or more often. You have or had dreams of what you wanted to reach in life. At some point you reach a more steady part of your life. That might be if you have a family, but also if you are still single. If you really reached that point, be honest, be very honest and think of whether you are happy with what you have reached and where you currently are. For quite some people that could lead to depressing thoughts and you might want to use prozac or some other anti-depression medicine. The effect might be that you are feeling active again, and pretending you are working your way up again. Making new goals you want to reach, perhaps making your family life more interesting again, more alife.
The point is, at what cost? How will your environment react to it? Are they ready for it, will they accept it?
That is a little bit of the idea in this movie. It is not a fast movie, but one with lots of dialogs and food for filosophy and psychology. The movie is from the same team who wrote Adam's Apples and it truly the best movie I have seen for the reason I mentioned in the beginning. It comes quite close how I feel (no, I'm not on prozac or anything like that :-)) sometimes. I reached most of my dreams, I have a good job and a reasonable life, though still single. Still I feel it's becoming a drag.
As for seeing this movie, I rather have it as last, or more space before the other movie started. You cannot just see it and see another one, pretending it's an average movie on the festival, because it wasn't.
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Lost & found direction in life
Links: AFFF / imdb
Psychological portrait of a man's midlife crisis. Slowly but steadily it gets under your skin. Once again a fantastic film from Denmark, with a lot of familiar faces involved; written by Anders Thomas Jensen, acted by Ulrich Thomsen and Paprika Steen, produced by Lars von Trier's / Thomas Vinterberg's Zentropa.
Rating: 9
Links: AFFF / imdb
Psychological portrait of a man's midlife crisis. Slowly but steadily it gets under your skin. Once again a fantastic film from Denmark, with a lot of familiar faces involved; written by Anders Thomas Jensen, acted by Ulrich Thomsen and Paprika Steen, produced by Lars von Trier's / Thomas Vinterberg's Zentropa.
Rating: 9
while trying to get a grip on his life, a man actually loses it
Links: AFFF / imdb
The writer of "Adam's Apples" is at it again. A film which is wonderful in its simplicity of setting, its impressive story and good acting. We are presented with a likeable enough character who gets a chance to "put things right" by partaking in a anti-depressive drug test. There isn't a whole lot wrong with his life, it's merely the fact that not he but his wife seems to have everything in control. Slowly though, his choices become more questionable, yet they never copmletely derail. It's a story that gets under your skin by the dark edges of its seemingly simple development.
One of the things I scribbled down was "double reversal of taking matters into one's own hand". He wants more control. Starts taking drugs. Feels better. Then it turns out he was in the placebo-group. Which requires him to re-evaluate and take matters "more" into his hands.. .again. The drugs seem to play a complex role: they allow him to finally _act_ in his life yet by their very nature he becomes dependable on them. When he realises he goes too far in his independent lifestyle, he throws them away, yet soon after he misses the seeming independence they provided him with.
Rating: 8
Links: AFFF / imdb
The writer of "Adam's Apples" is at it again. A film which is wonderful in its simplicity of setting, its impressive story and good acting. We are presented with a likeable enough character who gets a chance to "put things right" by partaking in a anti-depressive drug test. There isn't a whole lot wrong with his life, it's merely the fact that not he but his wife seems to have everything in control. Slowly though, his choices become more questionable, yet they never copmletely derail. It's a story that gets under your skin by the dark edges of its seemingly simple development.
One of the things I scribbled down was "double reversal of taking matters into one's own hand". He wants more control. Starts taking drugs. Feels better. Then it turns out he was in the placebo-group. Which requires him to re-evaluate and take matters "more" into his hands.. .again. The drugs seem to play a complex role: they allow him to finally _act_ in his life yet by their very nature he becomes dependable on them. When he realises he goes too far in his independent lifestyle, he throws them away, yet soon after he misses the seeming independence they provided him with.
Rating: 8