De ofrivilliga

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Movie
Original title De ofrivilliga
Country of production Sweden
original language Swedish
Publishing year 2008
length 98 minutes
Rod
Director Ruben Östlund
script Ruben Östlund,
Erik Hemmendorff
production Erik Hemmendorff
music Benny Andersson
camera Marius Dybwad Brandrud
cut Ruben Östlund
occupation

De OFRIVILLIGA (dt. The involuntary ; on German television also Involuntary ) is a Swedish comedy from 2008. The multi-award-winning episodic film by Ruben Östlund shows five to independently developing and escalating stories about peer pressure and what moral abuses associated with it.

action

The film shows five independently developing and escalating stories in several 2-3 minute scenes.

  • Lola's birthday party : At the birthday party, Lola's father Villmar is injured in the eye in an - at first apparently minor - accident with a fireworks. Although he himself thinks that everything is okay so far, he is getting worse and worse this evening. He himself is a topic of conversation again and again, but nobody dares to take him to the hospital or to call a doctor. Rather, they justify themselves and their own innocence. After the party, Villmar faints and is finally picked up by an ambulance.
  • Linnea & Sara : The two teenage girls Linnea and Sara do a lot together to test their limits. Whether they pose erotically together in front of a camera or dance with their friends, alcohol is flowing more and more. This escalates so much that they not only insult passers-by while drunk and make fun of them, but also that they feel worse and worse, so that at some point Linnea passes out and she becomes the victim of the jokes of other drunk young people. When these then subsequently provoke a passing car driver, they flee and leave Linnea behind. This is simply taken along by the driver without thinking. When the two are reprimanded by Sara's mother the next day, they hardly show any sense of guilt.
  • Bus trip : The well-known actress Maria Lundqvist takes a national bus instead of a flight to get to her destination. She is recognized and admired for her roles. During the bus ride, however, she damages the curtains on the toilet, so the bus driver decides not to continue until the culprit surrenders and apologizes. First of all, the suspicion falls on the previously rampaging young people. Maria later tries to talk to the bus driver and explain to him that his behavior is childish. But he insists on his point of view and continues to wait. But instead of admitting to herself that she was the guilty party, she waits into the evening until a father finally persuades his son to take the blame on himself. The bus driver accepts the boy's apology and then drives on.
  • School : In class, the young teacher Cecilia knows how to deal with the subject of “peer pressure” so that she can demonstrate it to her students. One day when she saw a rebellious student being beaten by a teacher, she was initially silent. Only after the mother of the pupil complained to the school principal and all the teachers present in the classroom were not talking about the crime but about the bad child and what job the mother might be doing, did she break her silence and emphatically appeal to the teachers' reason. But these do not show any insight, but rather begin to ignore them. After Cecilia refuses to apologize for her appeal, she now feels excluded.
  • Men group : A middle-aged group of men has known each other for several years and is not squeamish when it comes to their own humor, which for outsiders takes on homoerotic traits. The married fathers spend a boozy weekend together, where one of the jokes escalates to such an extent that Leffe takes Olle's penis into her mouth and sucks on it. Olle is beside himself and calls his wife crying so that she can pick him up, but afterwards she is rather amused that her husband has had a "blow job". Leffe himself cannot understand why Olle reacts like that. But the trip together goes on with a booze, and goes so far that Leffe lets himself be drunk to do a striptease, does a naked handstand and lets the Swedish flag be inserted rectally. Only when Olle takes a picture of it does Leffe get angry.

criticism

The film received very good reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes website counted 21 positive out of 24 professional reviews, which corresponds to a value of 81%. The film was also well received by the general public, as 59% of 512 users rated the film positively. This in turn is confirmed by the online film archive IMDb , another platform on which normal users can submit their film reviews, because there 4,484 users gave the film a very good 7.1 out of 10 possible points on average. (As of March 9, 2020)

In Svenska Dagbladet , Sweden , Carl-Johan Malmberg came to the conclusion that this film, shot with “remarkable precision”, was in the tradition of Robert Altman Short Cuts . Östlund shows with "a darker, but also much sharper view" about the people of today's Sweden and thus shows a "lack of self-worth, self-respect and the inability to be accountable for one's own actions".

Jan-Olov Andersson said in the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet that although Östlund had “great ambitions”, it was unfortunately “too blurred” thematically. However, it was a stroke of luck to fall back on many amateur actors, even if some scenes dragged on unnecessarily.

Peter Bradshaw of the British daily The Guardian also compared the film to Altman's shortcuts and said that De ofrivilliga was a "pessimistic comedy of embarrassment". He also criticized the fact that, despite the intensely sought-after realism, the film seemed too structured and artificial.

In US Variety magazine, Leslie Felperin found that "the nature of group dynamics is amusingly explored" and that it is very precise in its nature.

Awards

production

The first ideas for the script were already being collected in autumn 2004, when Östlund and Hemmendorf wrote down their own experiences as short stories. Filming began in the summer of 2006, where a tag has been scheduled in the same scene about it and to an average of 20 settings came. The individual stories were filmed independently of one another in one piece, so that the actors of other stories didn't even know each other.

For Ruben Östlund, the main aim of the film was to show "the lack of moral courage and the courage to speak when moral abuses arise under peer pressure".

publication

The film had its official world premiere at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section . After it subsequently screened at several other film festivals, its official Swedish theatrical release was on November 28, 2008. It grossed 462,717 US dollars in Sweden alone, making it the 75th most successful film at the Swedish box office in 2008. Worldwide the film came to a total grossing of 623,849 US dollar. A German publication is not yet planned.

In 2010, the film was submitted as a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film , but was not subsequently nominated for an Oscar.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ De ofrivilliga on stockholmfilmfestival.se (Swedish), accessed on August 4, 2011
  2. ↑ Involuntary. In: arte . Retrieved May 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Involuntary (De Ofrivilliga). rottentomatoes.com, accessed August 4, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Carl-Johan Malmberg: De ofrivilliga - Östlund befriande salt on svd.se of November 27, 2008 (Swedish), accessed on August 4, 2011
  5. ↑ Jan-Olov Andersson: Roy Andersson i light version on aftonbladet.se from November 28, 2008 (Swedish), accessed on August 4, 2011
  6. ↑ Peter Bradshaw: Involuntary - review on guardian.co.uk October 28, 2010, accessed August 4, 2011
  7. ↑ Leslie Felperin: Involuntary on variety.com of May 20, 2008 (English), accessed on August 4, 2011
  8. ↑ Annika Pham: Ruben Östlund • Director at cineuropa.org from October 30, 2008 (English), accessed on August 4, 2011
  9. ↑ Heynek Pallas: Sökandet efter rätt ögonblick on svd.se from January 5, 2007 (Swedish), accessed on August 4, 2011
  10. ↑ Den nya våren ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on flm.nu (Swedish), accessed August 4, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.flm.nu
  11. ↑ Annika Gustafson: "De ofrivilliga" provocerar biopubliken ( Memento of the original of May 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on sydsvenskan.se May 19, 2008 (Swedish), accessed August 4, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sydsvenskan.se
  12. ↑ DE OFRIVILLIGA (INVOLUNTARY) on festival-cannes.com (English), accessed on August 4, 2011
  13. ↑ Sweden Yearly Box Office 2008 at boxofficemojo.com , accessed August 4, 2011
  14. ↑ DE OFRIVILLIGA on boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed on August 4, 2011
  15. ↑ Sofia Curman: "De ofrivilliga" blir Sveriges Oscar candidate 2010 on dn.se from September 15, 2009 (Swedish), accessed on August 4, 2011