Michael Klintebäck

This movie summarized:  A bloke named Frank fucks around, gets pretty unlucky and finds out the world surrounding drugs doesn’t end well. And makes a lot of Swedish propaganda jokes. Overall, not really anything special to be honest.

I can start off by saying that immediately going into this movie I appreciated it more than Pusher 1 just because of Mads Mikkelson. I’ve now seen a good amount of his work and I can confidently say that I enjoy his acting. This one was definitely much better than Pusher 1. More emotional, more real, and not just “oh crap, this guy screwed up and now what’s gonna happen.” This one had more of a feeling about relationships with people, such as his friends, father, mother of his child, mother, etc. And the ending was just really sad. I was pleasantly surprised, even though I already knew that the ratings were better. I thought that this one was a very good movie.

Ever since I watched Aftersun, I knew that I could really appreciate movies with this type of genre that makes you feel such strong emotions. Therefore, I added this one on to my watch list and has been there until I decided to watch it tonight. I was kind of scared to go into this one because my previous experience with these types of movies has really left a lasting impact on me.  This movie had the heavy topic of grief and coping, which I had originally thought was more depression focused.Definitely a hard-hitting movie, even if it didn't hit as hard for me personally as Aftersun. I could understand how deep this movie would be to somebody that has lost a child, for example, or has suffered more grief than I've had to live through so far in my life. There were some scenes in this movie that were absolutely gut wrenching, even though I hadn’t lived through anything even similar to some of the absolute tragedies that happened to this poor guy. I thought that the relationship that went on between uncle and nephew was nice, but that there were some parallels between the two characters that were also a little bit sad. This movie did feel a little bit long. And maybe at times felt like there was a little bit too much unnecessary stuff going on that didn't really impact the story so much for me. But overall, this movie was one that I can appreciate for what it was. Maybe it will come back to me later in life and be understood in a different way than I do now. But pretty sad.

Firstly, I can start by saying that this is a really, really good movie, and probably as good as Seven or at least close to it. Seven is one of my all-time favorite films, so I was very happy with this one. I don't really know why I chose to watch a psychological thriller like Zodiac when I'm home alone on my first night of hemresa, but I decided to knock it off the watch list because Mathias had seen it and he thought that it was really good. I definitely thought that this movie was right up my alley, and was my type of horror movie that I can appreciate. No unnecessary jump scares and no over-the-top gory scenes. Pure psychological horror was the only way of getting emotion of terror conveyed in Zodiac. The fact that this is, of course, a true story about one of the most infamous serial killers of all time makes it all the more scary. I'm half convinced that Zodiac will break into Källgatan tonight and murder me. If that's the case, let this last letterbox review be a lasting memory of my love for a good David Fincher film. The scene in the basement literally had me twisting and turning in my stomach and I totally thought that something crazy was about to happen. Gonna hit the hay now, but definitely happy that I managed to knock this one off the watch list because I definitely liked it a lot.