Post by someoldguy on Mar 4, 2020 22:41:24 GMT -5
A young girl in a Danish fishing village is becoming a werewolf as she approaches adulthood. This is not Teen Wolf. It is about how she tries to deal with this and how others try to deal with it and what happens as a result. This film from Denmark is not your usual werewolf movie. In fact the word 'werewolf' or any synonym is not used at all. But there is no mistaking that this is about lycanthropy. The movie is minimalist in ways. Very little backstory on the girl herself and the overall backstory must be inferred from events.
Technically there is nothing to complain about. Acting, dialog, camera work, soundtrack, sets etc. etc. are all good. It is somewhat slow moving at the beginning, delving into side stories about bullying. There is no real action until well into the movie and then not a whole lot of it until near the end. Not much gore and kills are mostly either implied or over in a flash. As I said, not your usual werewolf movie. It is full of ambiguity. Who is justified in their actions? And the end is wholly ambiguous. What happens now?
We see hair growing and such things at various points in the movie but do not really see a definite werewolf until the end. The look is fairly minimalist (like the movie) but interesting nonetheless.
Based on some reviews, I was prepared to not like this movie. Yet I found it fairly good if not great. But if you want continuous disembowelings and decapitations and huge hairy monsters, this is not for you.
Technically there is nothing to complain about. Acting, dialog, camera work, soundtrack, sets etc. etc. are all good. It is somewhat slow moving at the beginning, delving into side stories about bullying. There is no real action until well into the movie and then not a whole lot of it until near the end. Not much gore and kills are mostly either implied or over in a flash. As I said, not your usual werewolf movie. It is full of ambiguity. Who is justified in their actions? And the end is wholly ambiguous. What happens now?
We see hair growing and such things at various points in the movie but do not really see a definite werewolf until the end. The look is fairly minimalist (like the movie) but interesting nonetheless.
Based on some reviews, I was prepared to not like this movie. Yet I found it fairly good if not great. But if you want continuous disembowelings and decapitations and huge hairy monsters, this is not for you.
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