Oh, I haven't seen the Scandinavian detectives for a long time - how much I miss them, it turns out. When everything is dark, dull, hopeless, and most importantly unpredictable. Do not wait for a happy final in the Scandinavian detective, where all the bad ones were killed / imprisoned, and good bravos hobbled in the sunset, waving fresh ranks and bad badges not cleaned of blood. There, even in the last minutes, anyone can die - the victim who the whole film tried to save, the child, the investigator, the child of the investigator. At the same time, the picture is a look: gray, dreary, but clean - beauty and order. It is also nice that the characters here are like living people, not supermen and supervillains.
The film is a full-length “inboxel” to the eponymous mini-series about a beautiful, traumatized investigator Katrina performed by Laura Bach. The spirit of the series is preserved, all the main characters are in place (though not all until the very end). Katrina is not the 'Saga Nouren, Malmö Police', Aspenger syndrome and other fashionable diagnoses of the current detectives does not suffer, an ordinary woman, albeit with an injury in the past. But in the film Fortidens skygge overtakes not Catherine, and her partner Thomas, a police psychologist. Psychologists’ failures can be tragic even for themselves, as we remember from The Sixth Sense.