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Movie Reviews of Hunger
Movie Review: Time for Europeans to reconsider the case of Knute Hamsun
Summary: 5 Stars
Brilliant cinamatic treatment of Hamsun's early masterpiece. Buy together with the film "Hamsun" with Max von Sydow and you'll understand why William Rose Benet's "Readers Encyclopedia", in it's latest edition no longer bears any references to Hamsun's so called Nazi sympathisizing in occupied Norway. Hamsun stylisticly broke ground for 4 generations of fiction writers from Hesse to Hemingway. Read Robert Ferguson's 1987 "Enigma:The Life of Knute Hamsun" to realize just how closely autobiographical the novel "Hunger" really was. Stunningly acted and photographed. Highly recommended.Movie Review: Depression 5 Stars
This movie follows the book very closely. It really makes you feel this characters hunger not only for food, but for freedom of the human spirit and mind.Movie Review: Hunger/Sult - The Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I found it quite hard to decide if I should give this film 4 or 5 stars. I've seen it several times now, and it is indeed and excellent film and better than most movies these days from for example Hollywood with all its filth. The movie is based on the break-through novel of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun; "Sult" (Hunger), Hamsun being one of the few Norwegians to win the Nobel prize in literature with his later "Growth of the Soil", and interestingly also a famous "reactionary" with a deep concern for the well-being of his European home continent, manifesting itself in his embrace of Germany and the Pan-Germanic cause. This particular book (and film) is centred on the main protagonist, a slowly decaying writer trying to make a living in Oslo in the late 1800's. He has to go days without food, and it takes its toll on his body, morals and spirit.
The movie is although a bit dull at places, hilariously funny and really shows the humour of Hamsun throughout, combined with his deep portrait of a man in descent. The Swedish actor Oscarsson playing the main character does an amazing job; he really manages to drive home the despair the book is filled with, as he gradually declines into a desperate man. From the highest peak when his work is accepted to the lowest bottom when he is left days without neither food, work neither recognition, Oscarsson portrays it all flawlessly. There is really not much more to say than that this is an excellent adaption of a wonderful book, that I highly recommend. The only flaw I find in the film after repeated viewings is the inclusion of an extended role as Ylajali, the protagonists love-interest, and the leaving out of for example the hilarious and agonizing plunge in self-respect when he is forced to pretend to be a lost journalist that needs sheltering for the night in the police station. I guess the director Carlsen wanted to make the film more suitable for the lesser castes with their shallow Weltanschauung.
4,5 stars and decidedly one of the better films out of Scandinavia that is basically recommended for everyone. (It is a bit strange with its Pan-Scandinavian crew, but you don't really notice after a few minutes, so don't worry).
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