Really Surprised!
... View MoreNice effects though.
... View MoreIt's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.
... View MoreThe film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
... View MoreMy friend first suggested me this movie and I thought I wouldn't like it and god I was wrong! I really loved how it starts as this guy who is all alone and is in space (or kind of...). I first didn't quite like his character that he got problems, but I see why and how. Every time he saw the girl around a time was there the shipping started! I wanted the main character and this girl to be together and they did in the end! But how the main character tried to make this girl to like his brother was just amazing how hard he tried it. He didn't give up, not even once! I really loved it, I thought it was really touching.It had some downs, like really small ones. But they're ignorable, otherwise really love this. This is a romance movie I can actually like to watch without telling what happens next right away.
... View MoreA warm, funny and emotional story of 18-year-old Simon (Bill Skarsgård), who has Asperger's Syndrome and want life to be punctuated exactly the same day after day, week after week. It includes everything from meals to activities. He shares the apartment with the more boisterous brother Sam (Martin Wallström), but when his girlfriend (Sophie Hamilton) breaks up, Simons life crashes together. His habitual security is gone. He needs to find a new girlfriend for his brother. How do you do? Can you have a girlfriend audition for his brother? May sound a little weird, but ... the filmmakers stitch together all the different elements to a mixture of romantic comedy drama about two brothers, friendship and warm description of an outsider. With Cecilia Forss in a colorful supporting role. The film was Sweden's Oscar nomination and was almost nominated. It was eliminated at the finish line. Director Andreas Öhman's other film "Bitch Hug" was on the cinema this fall.
... View MoreThe acting it terrible, overacting to say the least. Just because he is like the # 4 son of Stellan Skarsgård, he thinks he can act. Its just plain ignorant. If you want to see a movie that knows the true nature of Asperger's Syndrome, watch "The Social Network". And good Swedish movie, see "Låt Den Rätta Komma In"They should have stuck to the 29 minute novel-film and not make a full feature movie. If you want to see a new talent in Swedish cinema, watch "De Malätna" by the documentary-maker Andreas Svensson.Swedish movies have gone downhill for a long, long time. They could not make decent movie from the millennium series.
... View MoreIt is a warm feel good movie, but it is worth noted that is has divided the Swedish Asperger community in half. Since Simon is fairly exaggerated and has every possible Asperger's trait most of us do regard him at almost a pure autistic level. At least almost.Many who don't recognize him at all in themselves have claimed to outright hate the movie, and fear that it will contribute even more to spread erratic views on what Asperger's is and what can be expected from an aspie, based on some of the more not so nice things Simon do in the movie to complete strangers.Myself, I agree on that the picturing of Asperger's in the movie follows a trend these days that only the aspies with very obvious treats of the syndrome are the ones shown in media instances, while most of us aspies in real life do look fairly normal to the surrounding world and are very used to hear "Oh, do you have Asperger's syndrome? I would never have thought so!" every so often.On the other hand, there is another character in the movie, who feels very much more like a fairly normal aspie of the kind I know and have met a couple of hundred of in real life... - someone who rambles on and on in a couple of scenes about his special interest without even being quite sure anyone is listening.And I have met aspies with each and every one of Simon's AS traits, just not ever all of them at the same time, nor so many of them. I would not say that an Aspergers's diagnose on someone like Simon would be outright plain wrong. It is a wide spectrum! All this being said, the movie is a warm and nice story about the love between two brothers. An aspie or someone else with knowledge should be prepared for maybe not liking the portrayal of the syndrome.And Cecilia Forss is outstanding in the role of Jennifer!
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