Historien om Kim Skov

This movie was shown to me 3 (I repeat 3 times!!!) during my 9 years in basic school. It`s a classic 70`s social-realistic thing about a 10-12 year old boy, who has to move to the city with his family when the family farm goes bust. In the city he is lonely and badly bullied by his schoolmates.

The point of the movie is that capitalist society sucks, and that we all should be nice to each other.

Personally I would rather had taken a beating then watch this movie even once.

Skummelkrat must be mad. This is the best movie ever. A danish "gone with the wind" with spectacular action scenes and a story that just blows you away. We all carry a little Kim Skov inside us - a shy, misunderstood country boy who just wants to find love and approval. Seeing "Historien om Kim Skov" makes you wiser in so many ways - and stronger, too. I watched it back in elementary school. When the movie started, I was a boy. When it ended, I was a man. It is one of those rare film that has the power to transform you and make you aware of who you really are. If I should point at one weak thing about the film, though, it must be everything that happens in it. And yes, the actors too. Otherwise it is just brilliant. A clean 10 out of 10.

This really is an absolutely horrible film. Not just because of the poor acting, the thin script and the not very subtle left wing angle on society. When I look at the other comments here I realise than I'm not the only one haunted by violent images of poor Kim Skov getting beaten up and humiliated by bullies in leather jackets. We really ought to form some sort of an organisation and file a lawsuit against the danish school system. I haven't watched this film since the 6'th grade, but still the images will let let go. This is what the danish school system has done to my life. Even here in 2006 i still expect that long grease haired bullies will drop by my workplace and give me a good bullying, or force me to steal my fathers cigarettes for them. I guess I could just buy the cigarettes though, but thats beside the point. "The story of Kim Skov" has defined my fears.

This is really bad, it is designed to teach danish students in the smaller classes not to bully each other. Some scenes are worth the while, like the piece where Kim hits the guys that are giving him a hard time with the chain from his bike.

This movie must be the worst movie ever. Ed Wood couldn't top this one if he tried. This movie about children being mean to one another was meant to make children realize the horror of that sort of thing, but thanks to the utterly stupid and stupid looking lead character who really deserves to have his bike broken, this rather encourages than stops children from beating each other up.

I urge you to see this movie and beat someone up afterwards. Preferably someone who looks like the lead character. Don't worry, it serves them right!