FILM: “I like amphetamines. But I like not amphetamines as well. ” The statement is a good summary of the duality self-destruction that characterize the “Escape” s protagonist Minna. Minna is a drug addict, social client, the drug dealer and wanted by the police, and during the film once she gets thrown in one of Stockholm’s most ferocious men on the neck. But she also experiences something that gets all this to appear as trifles, for the misguided nurse Katja she finds a friend who see her as nothing more than a vehicle for their own gain.
Down and out in Stockholm.
Category
Drama
Director
Peter Grönlund
Starring
Malin Levanon, Lo Kauppi, Tomasz Neuman, Jan Mattson et al.
Premiere Date
8. July 2016
Age
12 years
Original Title
“ thief Heder ”
Documentary
« Escape »tell a conventional story of a person who steals money from heavy criminals, and who then must face the consequences of their deeds. The film’s backbone is a remarkable performance as Malin Levanon, who elaborates Minna’s life story – alcoholic mother; foster care; substance abuse; permanent residence on the ramp – with every flickering glance and every tense tug on your shoulders. And around this core of engineered naturalism need reality in the form of amateurs with faces, body language and diction which anchor the fiction in very real experiences. Most hypnotic of them is Jan Mattson in the role of the notorious and dreaded Dealers Christer Korsbäck.
Mattson plays Korsbäck as a primal force of vicious, ruthless self-preservation, and with his ravaged face and dead eyes he is one of the scariest creatures Scandinavian cinema has produced in a long, long time. “Escape” is never better than when director Peter Grönlund allows the documentary seep into the story in this way.
realistically
With such a man in heels, it may difficult end well for Minna, but in “Escape” has all the characters got so rough treatment before the movie starts that the only thing that really is at stake is the belief that there is an alternative to the brutal misery they experience on a daily basis. Grönlund portrays a world where margins are tiny, where everything is temporary, and how even something as basic as not betray their friends requires more than most of us have ever been forced to sacrifice.
thus, the story of the alternately desperate, suspicious and skinless friendship between Minna and Katja a portrait of a world on the side of the Scandinavian society, where it is impossible to win, and where life is about to maneuver between bad choices. In this context emerges the decision to portray Minna as a product of this existence, rather than using her fate as a threat to a vulnerable female protagonist, as a very admirable grip.
Accurate
” Escape “is a film beyond innocence and good intentions. Clearly there is a concerned public access, but the various support offerings are more keen to follow their own policies than to facilitate those in need. Minna has on its side neither time to gratitude or afford sentimentality, and takes care of a matter of course to rectify the shelters, campsites and communal apartments.
Peter Grönlund has put together an exceptionally rich and precise staging that goes contended with traditional cinematic depictions of drug addicts, burglars and – not least – women. Thus, «Escape», like Jonas Carpignano “Mediterranean”, a fiction film whose greatest achievements are of documentary character.
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