Anders Thomas Jensen, Knights of Justice/Retfærdighedens ryttere, 2020 I always liked his films (I watched all his works), as well as films based on his scripts, which are much more, but here is his previous film “Men and Chickens” (Men and Chickens) I, admittedly, somewhat disappointed, so with some fear approached to watching this
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Anders Thomas Jensen, Knights of Justice/Retfærdighedens ryttere, 2020 I always liked his films (I watched all his works), as well as films based on his scripts, which are much more, but here is his previous film “Men and Chickens” (Men and Chickens) I, admittedly, somewhat disappointed, so with some fear approached to watching this film. But it turned out to be quite in his style and without those squirrels that were in the previous one. As genres there are specified action movie, comedy, drama. If this is a comedy, it is very peculiar, even black it is difficult to call, except that this genre can be written off characters. There will be spoilers! ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- At the beginning of the film, we see a girl and her grandfather walking past a street vendor in Tallinn and discussing a potential Christmas present, a girl wants a bicycle, but there are only red ones and she wants a blue one. After a while, we witness the theft of a blue bicycle from the street, which, as it turns out, belongs to another girl. This girl is going to school, which her mother has to take her to, but the car does not start, and they go to the city by train. Mom has time to talk to Dad, who says he stays for another three months. Then we listen to a talk at a meeting of two computer scientists who promote their own software, with the help of which you can supposedly predict certain events, but they do not convince anyone and they are fired. Otto (Nikolai Li Kaas) is one of them, packing his bags and taking the train. And a chain of events starts - Otto gives way on the train to the girl's mother, suddenly a disaster occurs, and the girl's mother, like some other people, dies. After learning about what happened, the girl’s father Marcus (Mads Mikkelsen) returns from Afghanistan, who is shocked, but not possessing much empathy, is not able to properly console her daughter or survive the tragedy. It turns out that the accident also killed a key witness in the case of a gang of bikers, the so-called riders of justice, in the version of the distributors of the Knights of Justice, after analyzing the events, Otto comes to the conclusion that the accident was not accidental, but planned, goes with it to the police, but they do not take his version seriously, so he goes with her to Marcus, because he feels like his guilt for the death of the woman, because if he did not give her a seat, she would not die, having previously discussed it with his friends – the same computer geeks. And then the events begin to unfold incrementally, all this is overgrown with a significant number of corpses, new characters appear in the case, but the end is quite good in the spirit of a Christmas tale - all the main characters are alive, although they were injured, both girls received new bicycles as a gift. As always with Jensen, events unfold in a completely absurd way, the heroes are all crazy, with absolutely tragic stories in the anamnesis, their group of people who do not know how to kill (except Marcus, of course), you can not even call a gang, a team of avengers, but that’s what he has. A little surprised by one character - a call boy Ukrainian named Bodashka (!) Litvinenko (Gustav Lind), telling the "Ukrainian legend" about the bear hunter Lyubava Vasilkovna from the city of Vitebsk, see, with the geography of the author is a bit bad situation and the names from where he got, or maybe he specifically thickens the colors of the absurd, which there is plenty? Fans of Danish cinema can recommend it, the rest – hard to say, may not like it.
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