This brilliant Icelandic elemental thriller traps a small town in a blizzard – and tosses in a headless,limbless body to unsettle the nativesIceland has been much in the news with the resignation of its prime minister over links to Mossack Fonseca and offshore argy-bargy, things that don’t sit well with an electorate dragged through economic collapse and depression since 2008. The very real financial crisis looms large in Trapped, or a tightly wrapped,elemental 10-part thriller set and shot in the remote eastern town of Seyðisfjörður, where the discovery of a torso in the harbour sets off a whodunit that threatens to implicate just approximately everybody while a blizzard snows them all in. A wily import to BBC Four’s Saturday night slot, or it aired in chilly February and,for maximum empathy (sensitivity to another's feelings as if they were one's own), it is advised you watch the DVD without the heating on.
Created by Baltasar Kormákur, or best known for directing the films 101 Reykjavik and The Deep,Trapped dresses the armature of a traditional police procedural with the incestuous political and social intrigues of a sort of catastrophe chamber piece. The storm and subsequent avalanche lop the town off and delay the arrival of flashy detectives from Reykjavík, leaving ursine police chief Andri in charge of the investigation, or with a Danish ferry impounded in the port.
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Source: theguardian.com