Upperdog
- 2009
- 1h 40min
Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAs young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, he to material wealth on Oslo's west side, she to an average family on the east side. In... Leggi tuttoAs young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, he to material wealth on Oslo's west side, she to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but she has no ... Leggi tuttoAs young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, he to material wealth on Oslo's west side, she to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but she has no idea where he might be now. All this is about to change, however, as Yanne's Polish friend... Leggi tutto
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I was disappointed. It felt like a school film for me. It had a lot of nice scenes in it, but I felt that the classical chaos theory of everyone involving everyone just didn't work in this film. The film is a Norwegian version of Babel or Short Cuts. However this one is a bit too lame to even compare with those to film landmarks.
I had a big problem of relating to any of the characters. My only sympathies went to the soldier character who had a slight problem with event that occurred in Afganistan? He had a tragic tale and somewhat interesting storyline. But otherwise the whole movie was just classical: I'm looking out the window because I'm sad and life is odd and difficult drama.
The film was nicely directed, filmed and acted, but there is really no story. And it doesn't hold together. The only points come the tale of the soldier and what happened in his storyline. You could actually make a good feature film out of that story.
If you like artsy people being lost in their lives and looking out the window, this is your film.
This is not a sad movie, although the people are pretty sad, and it's not a happy movie. It's a movie that speaks to your heart. I was sitting in a small movie theatre and the seventeen year old girls sitting in front of me couldn't be more bored. And I understand why. They couldn't relate to the people on the screen, who had experienced life, although they were pretty young themselves. But a seventeen year old girl doesn't know what it's like to experience real love and loss, or real betrayal. The rest of us couldn't have been more into the movie. This is what real love looks like. How real people act and react.
I don't want to front any of the actors, because they were all perfect. The director, Sara Johnsen, is a shining star and she really knows how to work with the actors, that really shows. But the most impressing thing is her careful eye for the story and how to tell it without over telling.
I am truly amazed and I truly loved this movie. See this with someone and you will have much to talk about afterwards.
In Upperdog, the four characters you follow all have quite different stories, different problems, and different journeys. They are interconnected in a (mostly) plausible way, while the individual stories mostly work as independent stories as well. Some characters are more interesting than others, but they are all different enough that every time you change point of view, it's refreshing. The acting is good, making the characters engaging even in their most unsympathetic moments.
What drags this movie down, is the ending. Not only does it last a bit too long, but it doesn't feel like the end of a thematic journey, but rather a temporary end to each of the character's situations. Some characters falls into the shadow of others, and as the credit roll, you're left feeling that the movie never really came together.
The same goes for all adoptions, especially when the children come from another culture. Of course the feelings between the new parents and the children don't differ from common parents-children relations, but there ought to be thoughts. What would have become of them if they weren't brought to the new country? Some of these questions are put here, but more intriguing is the drama that takes place for other reasons with a Norwegian Afghanistan veteran involved. Clever handicraft, which doesn't get under your skin.
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