Production Design
In a Copenhagen suburb the 19-year-old Per is found unconscious after having been badly beaten up. He is taken to hospital in a coma. The police have no clues, but the air is thick with suspicion. His mother struggles to maintain her faith in his survival. His younger sister, Mie, begins to pick up rumors. Her boyfriend, Shadi, suspects that his elder brother is behind the assault but he cannot tell anyone. Many well-meaning people find themselves at sea in a fable about emotions leading us astray.
Set Decoration
Michael (Ulrich Thomsen) tem tudo sob controle: uma carreira militar de sucesso, uma bela esposa (Connie Nielsen) e duas filhas. Seu irmão mais novo, Jannik (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), é um vagabundo que vive no limite da lei. Quando Michael é enviado ao Afeganistão, em uma missão da ONU, a harmonia entre os dois irmãos muda para sempre. Michael some e Sarah é consolada por Jannik que, apesar de tudo, mostra que é capaz de assumir a responsabilidade por si próprio e pela família. Quando Michael volta para casa, traumatizado por ter ficado prisioneiro nas montanhas do Afeganistão, nada está como antes.
Production Design
The basic story of a young criminal not quite living up to his won ideals of "not to give a damn" sidesteps out of his criminal career while dragging his younger brother into it, could have been interesting. Unfortunately the implementation is simply not good enough. As so often with Danish movies, there is little appreciation for detail thus leaving us with hoodlums talking like they've done time at a business academy rather than a prison. Dialects completely out of here and idiosyncratic bikers without bikes or even character for that matter. An ever accelerating surrealism towards the end doesn't help to clear the slow pace of this film but it does give a glimpse of what the story could have unfolded to become.
