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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 428030" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>Last night's film was...</p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">Denmark</span></strong> (2019)</p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>AKA One Way To Denmark</em></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nerdly.co.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F08%2FONE_WAY_TO_DENMARK_KEY_ART_FINAL.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=a678bb448495e8388b3791909db43ef16da9d37fe21f7d209ec4cc0adac2ae36" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Late last year, I watched a charming Timothy Spall film called <em>The Last Bus</em> in which a depressed loner with no real family left went on something of an odyssey which centred around one almost focal idea. This slightly earlier film, which stars Timothy's son Rafe Spall, has many of the same themes. Whereas <em>The Last Bus</em> was about taking the characters late wife's ashes on a cross-country bus journey, <em>Denmark</em> sees our main character wanting to get himself locked up in a Danish prison, after watching a documentary about the high quality of their living conditions, in order to escape his current life living in hardship and unable to get a job in a former mining town in South Wales (IMDb says it's Tredegar in Blaenau, Gwent, but the main street seen most frequently is Senghenydd, as can be clearly seen written on the name of the pharmacy, which is easily found on street view where many of the same landmarks and signage can be seen).</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Rafe's South Walian accent is impressive. If I didn't know who he was he'd have had me completely fooled. The dialect and its rhythms used for the Welsh sequences are entirely authentic. There's an area-specific authenticity that adds to the "fish out of water" element once he reaches the calm relaxation of Denmark. And once we're in Denmark it's enjoyable to hear people speaking the native tongue without subtitles, and yet understanding what's said or meant by the tone and looks (particularly the frosty mother who disapproves of this Welsh neanderthal entering her habitat... and potentially her daughter).</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">There's an interesting journey for the audience. His second thoughts about getting himself arrested all made sense so that by the time he decided in desperation to go ahead with it all the same, I found myself holding my breath and trying to will him to stop. I suppose it's ultimately a film about trying to connect and finding someone who can see and accept him, but there's a lot of sadness underneath it all. Lines like "life became more about dying than living" are, in context, incredibly profound.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">This isn't a film to watch with expectations, because it won't meet any of them. And the fact that it's so surprising is exactly why it needs to be watched.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Incidentally, as I watched I had my Timothy Wests and Spalls mixed up and convinced myself Rafe was the son of Prunella Scales.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 428030, member: 23"] Last night's film was... [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Denmark[/SIZE][/B] (2019) [I]AKA One Way To Denmark[/I] [IMG]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nerdly.co.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F08%2FONE_WAY_TO_DENMARK_KEY_ART_FINAL.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=a678bb448495e8388b3791909db43ef16da9d37fe21f7d209ec4cc0adac2ae36[/IMG] Late last year, I watched a charming Timothy Spall film called [I]The Last Bus[/I] in which a depressed loner with no real family left went on something of an odyssey which centred around one almost focal idea. This slightly earlier film, which stars Timothy's son Rafe Spall, has many of the same themes. Whereas [I]The Last Bus[/I] was about taking the characters late wife's ashes on a cross-country bus journey, [I]Denmark[/I] sees our main character wanting to get himself locked up in a Danish prison, after watching a documentary about the high quality of their living conditions, in order to escape his current life living in hardship and unable to get a job in a former mining town in South Wales (IMDb says it's Tredegar in Blaenau, Gwent, but the main street seen most frequently is Senghenydd, as can be clearly seen written on the name of the pharmacy, which is easily found on street view where many of the same landmarks and signage can be seen). Rafe's South Walian accent is impressive. If I didn't know who he was he'd have had me completely fooled. The dialect and its rhythms used for the Welsh sequences are entirely authentic. There's an area-specific authenticity that adds to the "fish out of water" element once he reaches the calm relaxation of Denmark. And once we're in Denmark it's enjoyable to hear people speaking the native tongue without subtitles, and yet understanding what's said or meant by the tone and looks (particularly the frosty mother who disapproves of this Welsh neanderthal entering her habitat... and potentially her daughter). There's an interesting journey for the audience. His second thoughts about getting himself arrested all made sense so that by the time he decided in desperation to go ahead with it all the same, I found myself holding my breath and trying to will him to stop. I suppose it's ultimately a film about trying to connect and finding someone who can see and accept him, but there's a lot of sadness underneath it all. Lines like "life became more about dying than living" are, in context, incredibly profound. This isn't a film to watch with expectations, because it won't meet any of them. And the fact that it's so surprising is exactly why it needs to be watched. Incidentally, as I watched I had my Timothy Wests and Spalls mixed up and convinced myself Rafe was the son of Prunella Scales.[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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