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Sweden is at war, with an unknown foreign power. Set against this backdrop this is the story of a young man and the woman he used to know when they were kids, and the respective families and relatives, and their struggle to stay out of harms way.
This is a story of multiple personal conflicts and longtime unresolved trauma wounds. It is a scary, ugly and sometimes very personal movie.
It is also a story about a war. It is not what I expected, but it is very good.
Without revealing any parts of the story and risk spoiling the suspension, although some of the acting made me frustrated (come on, tell him already!), and parts of the story were hard to take in (why did so many cars auto-accelerate?), I still appreciated the movie very much. But it could have been longer, to give room for more details. Right now neither of the two main themes got enough time.
The figure 199 in the church at the end of the movie is the bible psalm from which the movie takes its name. The theme song plays in the credits, it is beautiful and worth staying to hear.
score 10/10
mikael-ronnback 2 July 2018
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4223502/ |
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11-4-2021 20:41:10