bartverberne16

The songs are lame and the story is featherlight. Someone else wrote that this film might have been made in one afternoon using AI....he/ she might be right.

What, as an adult, frustrated me most was the supposed ease with which the Pig family accomodates the pressure from famoly expansion. Finding a new house, for example. To my experience, at least within the Netherlands, finding a house for a young family is near to impossible for a price that two incomes could afford. Reconstructing an existing one would also cost small fortune, notwithstanding the bureaucracy and stress involved in the process. Perhaps I'm mistaken about the Pig family's wealth, but the ease with which all of this is unfolding is of a demagogic unrealisticness. Using a realistic theme (new baby, pressure from family expansion) and then sketching a world that is soooooo far from reality is bordering unethical. The vast majority of families in this situation will be filled with stress and anxiety. If this can't even be lightly addressed when discussing this theme, then I would suggest not to discuss it at all.

3/10 because my kids didn't leave crying.

Western European societies have put a fateful mark on other cultures, notably on populations in Africa, the Americas, and East Asia. When this began will surely be subject of debate (I am not a historian), but the age of Caucasian traders/ conquerors sailing the world, or the invention of evangelical Christianity, were likely pivotal. Of course, 'a fateful mark' is rather euphemistic, as the horrors inflicted upon communities small and large alike are impossible to catch in words and we remain to live with the consequences every day.

"Sinners" by Ryan Coogler uniquely addresses this theme. Without taking an activist approach, Coogler explicates the effects of Caucasian dominance. It is never pedantic (which would have destroyed the movie, I think), but it is indeed quite confrontational at times, which left me filled with emotions. Especially the scene where the Church roof burns down, is a momentous artistic achievement and an ode the mankind.

Being Caucasian myself, I was left with a feeling of guilt. But, what am I to do about present day suffering other than acknowledge and, where necessary, condemn this awful course of history? Is it even reasonable to feel guilty as a Caucasian, or was the course of history merely a fatalistic function of Darwinistic forces that could also have developed elsewhere? I was very curious to find out about the makers views on such questions. But, we don't quite get them, I feel. We observe on the existence and effects of intergenerational cultural conflict, but it is left for the sad thing it is. The second half the film is mostly a thrilling and visually appealing vampire story. Still very enjoyable, but less ambitious and long lasting, I would say.

I would give 10/10 for bringing up the theme of intergenerational cultural conflict in such an entertaining film. However, without a binding conclusion, the debate is less constructive, and I'm mostly left with negative emotions on this topic. And, maybe that is what it is, but then again, in the greatest movies of all time such would have been solidified, I feel. I'll keep following whatever this director delivers, because he certainly has a talent for visual story telling. Thanks!

I had no pre-existing knowledge on the makers of this film or on its background, so i came into this completely neutral.

However, early on in the story i got annoyed with the self-important attitude of the son and his friend, who are pressurizing an aging man to relive the past. Leave him be, for f sake! The 'laat journey', and in particular the staging of memories to relive the past, is mostly to their own fullfillment than that it is for Lars Hammar. The vegetable cutting scene towards the end was particularly grueling. Finally, there, the son self reflects and comes to the conclusion he pressurized his father perhaps a bit too much. I appreciated that, but that he didn't understand this much earlier on is just plain stupid.

The makers of this film should've kept this a private project. Why is it important to share this with the world? What makes them, or this story, so important to show it to the world? There are millions of us that struggle with similar if not more dramatic and interesting stories involving aging family members. I now gather that the makers of this film are themselves famous in Sweden, but honestly, that makes matters far worse.