Who you fear

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Movie
German title Who you fear
Original title That you frygter
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 2008
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Kristian Levring
script Kristian Levring,
Anders Thomas Jensen
production Sisse Graum Jørgensen
music Krzysztof Penderecki
camera Jens Schlosser
cut Pernille Bech Christensen
occupation

Wen you fear ( Original title: Den du frygter ) is a Danish thriller from 2008.

action

The ministerial official Mikael has already been on leave for six weeks to recover. He thinks his life is boring and has fallen into depression , which is why he asks his brother-in-law Frederik to take part in LimeTec 's drug study . But the Nyasin pill hardly seems to have any effect. However, after some test persons freaked out and beat each other up angrily, Frederik stopped the test. He also asks Mikael to dispose of all the pills so that nothing similar can happen to him. Since he seems to be getting better and better, he keeps the pills and retires for a few days to his home country, where he lives in his mother's house, who is currently in the nursing home. He's feeling better and better and starts jogging to get his body back in shape too. He meets his childhood friend Kenneth, whom he later visits, where he meets Anton, Arndt and Espen again. But they quickly gamble away their sympathy and annoy Mikael because they make fun of his mother. A few days later, Mikael meets Anton’s daughter Pia and takes her with him in his car. While driving he becomes more and more unrestrained, so that he aggressively harasses and sexually harassed her. By racing like a savage through the forest, he manages that she bares herself in front of him.

After this incident, Mikael leaves again and goes home. At home he continues to take his pills and at some point he comes to the realization that he cannot live freely, but that his life is based only on Sigrid's needs and that she has complete control over the family. So he begins to correct this fact. He tries to drive them crazy with minor nasties by scalding them in the shower and letting rats roam free around the house while claiming they don't exist. At the same time, he hooks up with Sigrid's best friend Ellen, sleeps with her and confesses this affair to Sigrid. That gives Sigrid an additional shock and it gets worse and worse. And Mikael doesn't stop after he learns from Frederik that Mikael never received pills, but was only in the placebo group .

It is only Mikael's daughter Selma who finds his diary in which he describes how he terrorizes Sigrid. When she tries to warn her mother, she is already anesthetized in her bed and she is stopped by her father and locked in the cellar. Suddenly Sigrid also wakes up and runs through the house screaming in panic to look for Selma. But instead she is stopped by Mikael and locked in the freezer. Then Mikael simply disappears and visits his mother.

criticism

“Portrait of a man who is becoming increasingly anti-social. The psyche of the protagonist should be mirrored by unfamiliar camera settings in order to make the pathological nature of his behavior visible. "

- Lexicon of international film

background

The film opened in Danish cinemas on December 19, 2008 and first ran in Germany on November 14, 2009 on NDR .

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who you fear. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used