Sebbe

I think it's a beautiful and realistic film about the pain of growing up and being the outcast in the school. Feeling ashamed of your family situation.

What was really good about it was that how the bullying and events in school happened felt real. I could relate to it strongly and recognize those events from my school years.

It was how it happens in Europe at least. If you compare the way the bullying is done in a normal Hollywood studio film, this felt more real.

The other real strength in this film is the acting. It is directed superbly and also the role of the mother is a very good one. Her character is strongly written.

Then we come to the weakness of the film, why I almost left the theater. The film doesn't have a drive and it doesn't variate. Basically it's the same scenes happening again and again. It was an 80 minute film, which could have been 70 minutes. Or at least some re-writing would have helped a bit.

But whit it's weakness, it was still a very good film.

A very well crafted movie about a significant period in a young person's life.

Swedish drama doesn't seem to include stereotypes. Rather it portrays people, social environments, and relationships or interactions with luminous wisdom.

I found every scene, every frame, every nuance of acting and visual imagery engaging.

I see about 25-35 movies every month but not so many Swedish movie. This movie is one of the reasons. On my blog I rate movies from 1 to 5 and this is the first movie of several hundreds that really earns a 1 as a rating. This was the absolute worst movie I have ever seen in my life. When you just sitting over 1 hour and waiting for the movie to explode and for things to really start and then... nothing... nothing at all.. I would recommend every person that even thinking about seeing this movie to sit in the front of a new-painted wall until the paint has dried.. Believe me... That should be more giving than this crap of "movie". I really get frustrated when there are these people who try they can write a "good" movie and then add the worst "actors" there is. I can honestly say that I would have done a much better film myself..

Just forget this crap and continue enjoy your life, cause after seeing this movie.... you wont...

I did not expect much when starting to watch, but I almost immediately got caught by this extremely moving, sad sad story. I do not understand that this film has not been watched in Sweden, although an explanation might be that it describes ordinary lives of in a very realistic, uncompromising way which is not always easy to watch. It is so inspiring to discover a little diamond between all the garbage we are being served! It's a 'must watch'

It's a blatant cut and paste of Ken Loache's "KES". The difference being, it's more modern and in a different country. The director has even thrown in some mining references for good measure. Thoroughly depressing and tough to watch.