Review of Adalen 31

Adalen 31 (1969)
oh my god..
29 February 2004
Warning: Spoilers
This is the most overrated swedish film I can think of. On a scale from 1 to 5 I give it 1. Why? Well, let's begin with that the sound is so bad that you sometimes can't hear what the actors say. Alot of the scenes are(or must be, I don't know and I don't care)improvised. The actors keep repeating their lines over and over and over again. You can almost see how frustrating this is for the actors in some scenes.

Also the story, besides the story about the shooting, is absurd. The boy that dies at the end, the tragic moment in the movie, is some kind of a rapist with hypnotic skills, so you don't care so much. The only music in this "real" movie comes from a bunch of retarded boys with spoons and buckets for instruments. At the end of the movie, close to the klimax, it's blowhorns and drums from the marching band.

If Ådalen was this dull even that day, that must have been the most exiting day of all times, I will never put my foot there.

That this movie gets 7.8 grade is not so strange after all. No sane man would ever even think of renting this movie. This is a movie for the insane!
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