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Audience Member How honesty is sometimes really hard but really important, and sometimes self-righteousness can be really wrong. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Swedish movie, the box says is a comedy but I am not convinced, there are a couple of humorous moments but in my opinion it is more of a melodrama. It is set as a collection of tales, like a sketchbook: a schoolteacher with problems at work, a group of men spending a break in the countryside, a bus driver scolding his passengers over curtain rod, two teenage girls getting drunk and uncontrollable in a crazy night out and a man getting injured lightening fireworks. It isn't bad cinema, it is just very slow, very Swedish if you want, plus the vignettes don't have a common denominator except perhaps that they all happen in summer and the time frame is short -one or two days- disparate short stories of Swedes having uncommon experiences . You end up missing the point completely, the message of the film is unclear and I start to wonder if there is one at all. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Fantastisk friskt pust i en verden full av mye dårlig film. Ruben Østlund utfordrer alle kjente konvensjoner og går i mot det meste som står i lærebøkene om hvordan man skal lage film. Disse lærebøkene er vel egentlig avlegs i vår tid. Det er ingen som lar seg forvirre av at man bryter akser i kryssklipping lenger. Det er imidlertid lite kryssklipping i denne filmen. Det er veldig lite klipping i det hele tatt. Filmen er satt sammen av ulike scener. Vi følger et knippe vanlige svenske folk og situasjonene som de opplever i deres hverdag. Hver scene består stort sett av kun en kamerainnstilling og Østlund har ofte gjort det slik at vi ser kun deler av det som er i handlingen. I en scene er kameraet så langt unna at vi nesten ikke ser hva som foregår, mens i en annen filmes det kun den ene parten i en dialog. Slik fortsetter det med kamerainnstillinger som utfordrer alle lærebøker om hvordan man skal bygge opp en scene filmatisk med klipping, kryssklipping og variasjoner i bildeutsnitt. En del av scenene blir som alenestående sketsjer og det er scener som både trigger både lattermusklene og ubehagligsenterene (!). Østlund har fått en del kritikk for å ha vært litt for mye copy cat av Roy Andersson. Norske Bent Hamer driver også med litt av det samme. De Ofrivilliga er imidlertid betydelig mer kommersiell i sitt handlingsrom, selv om de filmatiske grepene er så langt i fra det kommersielle som man kan komme i dag. Anbefales på det sterkeste! Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Excellent cinematography, and simply yet strikingly illustrates our nuances, prejudices, and weaknesses as effectively through children as you would expect to see done through adults. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Five independent stories which all possess an admirable wit and acuity. They all share one thing - the involved have to stand up for their own will and resist the so often overwhelming peer pressure that we all at some point has been the victim of. Ruben Östlund has created a sleek, straight and accurate film where the acting is unbeatable. We have to be alert, listen and try to keep up with the sometimes very complicated plot. The camera is rolling and it allows all the involved to take all the space. The stories has a strange sense of normalcy on the surface, and the every day situations succeds each other with finesse, perfectly knitted together til the end without any forced resolution or final connection. It is this kind of story I feel can be associated with Sweden. This may be our future culture imprint. Ruben Östlund possesses a narration that grabs at his audience and he is not afraid to challenge. It is exciting despite unremarkable equality in the presentation, and the persons in the five stories, feel very real. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review carina o Filmen som framhäver det jag hatar mest med svenskar... Bra jobbat! Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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