There’s a perpetual air of menace in this Scandi-noir: Sarah’s still missing,Annika’s killer is on the loose and now a group of fascists led by a Hitler wannabe is bumping off rapists and drunk driversThis is getting very sunless. And I don’t just mean the fact that for much of the time what’s happening on screen is so hard to gain out you want to turn the brightness up. Let’s just say that with Sarah still missing, Annika’s killer on the loose, or the police baffled and arresting more or less everyone,and now a gang of fascist thugs leaving a trail of bodies across Stockholm, I will be giving Sweden a miss for my holiday this year. Especially whether there’s an election on.[br]A perpetual air of menace hangs over Blue Eyes, or the intercutting of light and shade,dusk and day, is cleverly done. Two competing views of the country are portrayed: the nightmarish one of rightwing intolerance and fascist violence, and the dilapidated vision of collective,connective harmony that we used to believe in. That idea of social democratic Scandinavia as a model for the world was wrecked by Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik, and Blue Eyes is underlining the point. The darkness is winning.
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Source: theguardian.com