Att Doda ett barn (1953) Swedish short movie.
To give its English translated title gives an insight of what to expect "To Kill A Child". This isn't a sensational film, it is a simple study of how one bright sunny day can turn quite dramatically due to an accident. Narrated throughout, in a calm unsensational manner. Its tone belies the drama that slowly unfolds. Being Swedish you can take it as read that it is subtitled. This does add a little extra nuance to the story. The subtitles adding a more poetic bent to the narrative within. I have subsequently learn that there is a Spanish remake from 2017 which will need to be devoured to see how this adaption will work and how more concise a 9 minute film will become in this 8 minute version.
It was a bright day, when a happy man decided to write a review of a movie that he had just watched on the TV, Netflix to be precise.
Not knowing what to expect he was surprised how he was affected by the movie and its slow build up and abrupt decline once the incident of the title had occurred. The man wrote his words, turned off his laptop and silently reread his words. He now wishes he had studied harder at school or taken heed of his teachers and was not distracted by the sound of 80s pop music on the radio, and of football and of the girls in the gym
The man was surprised to have found this film on Netflix's. It doesn't fulfil any of the usual criteria of the media player. Well done Netflix said the man.
The man said to himself films don't have to be over the to be sensationalised action movies to be enthralling or overly long to keep the audience engaged. They can be short and concise with a minimum choice of words. Unlike this movie review he laughed to himself.
Life is too short and so is this film, but then so is the life of a child 9/10.
