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Some have criticized this, perhaps because they struggle to see blood or operations, but this series is truly profound in its depiction of surgical details. No blurrying, no sensorship, just truth.

I found it compelling how the surgeons in the 2nd and 3rd episode are putting small bone fractures in his smashed head together like a puzzle. This is extreme engineering from the doctors, and it's a compelling watch.

If this is recommended? Well, of course, if you are not of the faint-hearted. It might get someone to faint.

The Seed (originally "Kimen") is the debut of director Erik Solbakken, based on the renowned novel by the same name by famous writer Tarjei Vesaas, with a script written by Solbakken himself.

It's summertime on a rural island out in Western Norway, where everything seems to be in balance. A mysterious stranger comes ashore as a passenger by boat, and the slumbering island's life is definitely over.

The mysterious stranger is well-dressed and talks poetically, but is obviously traumatized by war and disturbing images in his mind. He's felt some kind of drag to go to the island, and it seems his presence shakes things up, even if he doesn't have anything to do with it, when a pig starts eating her newborn piglets. He says he is interested in rare plants.

The film's best aspect is the well-photographed mystery, and the worst seems to be the forced dialect all the actors are "forced" to use. I also feel the music is a bit too atonal and violent sometimes.

This movie is made available in 2024 when it was released on interregional (region-free) Blu-Ray Disk by Norwegian Film Classics as the 37th release in a new series with classics, NFK0037, with subtitles in English, and is supposed to be held in stock for film lovers.

I'm quite used to seeing many Danish films, and the best have great scripts and are really well directed.

I did expect this to be good, or at least above average, with the IMDb-score of 6,9.

But slowly, I realized it was much better.

The story is about a Danish family of 5, where the husband is drinking hard and often. The others do what they can to hide that fact.

It's a family cathastorph well known to many, but teh family decied this has to stop, and surprises the husband that they won't see the face of him anymore before he stops drinking, and get in professionals around when they tell him.

The whole fa,mily gets in therapy, and by mighty, they all need it. They all carry the burden, not least the mother which is the enabler for the whole tragedy, doing all the cover-up.

The film tells the story neat and exiting, og then quite riveting. I won't tell more, to avoid any spoilers, but it's profound stuff.

But it's also a heartfelt story, and very true in a sense, and I think the dramtization is spot on. Great work. Go see it.

If you are a happy drinker and a semi alcoholic you'll probably hate it.