Lifeboat

A couple on sailing vacation in Greece takes on the mission to save a vulnerable refugee.

Regarding the subject - this movie takes a different approach than the usual victim-saviour narration. Altough there is a power imbalance, it is played with and leaves the viewers sympathy split.

I think this was a interesting movie. Someone said the acting was not believable, but I strongly disagree. I feel like this movie was a personal dicsplacement. The playing card scene really stuck with me, I could somehow relate to Iben's (Sofia Helin) need of "assertion".

For me this movie was about what trauma and grief brings out of you, how it kind of turns into a two sided desperation of redemption or submission.

Sorry for my english.

Watch it.

For a second while I was watching this, I thought this was going to be a critique on refugees and the camps (in general or specific). It still is about that of course, but there is more to it. And the movie dodges certain questions nicely by making this a personal adventure and harrowing one at that.

I try to use the summary line to either add humor or something about the movie. Or like in this case (best case scenario) both at once. And this is about the female main character who has a lot to going ... for and against her. But I will not say more and let you explore what this is actually about .... decently told.

Apparently Josefine Kirkeskov believes the screen is like an aspect of a theatre stage, so she attempts to tell the story as if that was true. But it isn't. What's on screen needs to be fully believable, maybe larger than life to work and actors need to express their roles differently. This looks like something from the eighties. Amateur hour.

The sloppy pre-story tries to mimic initimacy with closeup photo and some slightly dirty language. It just looks silly, unnatural and thin.

It's as if Josefine hopes emotions will appear on screen if the actors just pretend they feel something internally while she's filming. What we see is downright cold and it's clear we're not supposed to like this couple. Or maybe this is Josefine's version of love?

The litte pre-story there is doesn't show us a happy couple about to have their relationship tested. What we see is the theory of that as Josefine Kirkeskov fantasizes it. It's very boring.

Sofia Helin, in her lead is terrible. I don't know what Josefine Kirkeskov meant her to portray. If it's someone with emotional problems, well that's a strong part of it. Sofia looks as if she has lost it well ahead of the story developing. I think rather she has lost her talent, if she had one. Or maybe Josefine Kirkeskov lead her astray. I don't know.

I suppose there are great questions and an important story in there, but I'm not going humour Josefine Kirkeskov anymore.