Bleak and overwhelming, this is a movie that has haunted me since I first saw it. Lukas Moodysson’s best film is also one of the best Swedish films of all time, up there with Bergman and Andersson’s. This is as uncompromising a film there is, shot in whatever hellhole location in Estonia they dug up to stand in for Soviet Russia - and the feeling of humanity’s grime and decay lingers all these years later.
the idea of gay dads post-nimona movie ending is so funny to me because imagine you're ambrosius and you and your husband adopted this little shapeshifter that just found your husband one day and your child looks at you and tells you that she had a baby gay relationship with your great-great-great-great-great-etc-grandmother about a thousand years ago like id be so distraught /hj
The Big Heat , 1953, directed by Fritz Lang starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Jocelyn Brando.
A tough cop, a honest one, comes up against a crime syndicate he suspects of controlling part of the police force when a bomb attack kills his wife instead of him...
Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford), is an idealist detective and virtuous family man and while he cannot bring himself to break his own moral code, the women around him, by mere association, suffer for his internal conflict...
But anyway in these difficult situations he becomes a relentless, angry force, unstoppable in his quest for the truth and for payback...
What type of man does the protagonist represent? And How much this "pattern" of behavior still prevails today?