I review this in English even though it is a Swedish movie simply because if someone english speaking saw this with subtitles they can at least somehow get what they watched.
This is a continuation of the series bonusfamiljen. A series that was well acted and had a good manuscript. It was always kind of on the edge of what is to painful in life to have it as a comedy but it kept that line with perfect skill. It handled really heavy subjects like the male protagonists fathers deadly disease. To painful relationships fights and the feeling of life not matter anymore. But it is also in the pain you would find meaning and warmth and so on. It was true to our humanity.
This movie did not have this finger on the pulse that the series had. It was way to bleak. It was also kind of preachy in a strange way. But more so in the way that you should know when you should not stay in a relationship.
I have heard this many times from relationships expert on TV that to many couples stay to long together. This movies seem to have picked up on that. But they forget that the therapists have a stake in that. Is that not a way for them to cover their own ass when things go to hell as it probably does many times after couple therapy, making their effort impossible since it was doomed from the start? Sure it limit the use of couple therapy as well so it is kind of contra productive. But it is preachy and the series never was that.
This movie also have one of the character dying.. This only becomes bleak and looses everything of its former way of trying to find humanity. Therefor the low rating I assume.
This is a continuation of the series bonusfamiljen. A series that was well acted and had a good manuscript. It was always kind of on the edge of what is to painful in life to have it as a comedy but it kept that line with perfect skill. It handled really heavy subjects like the male protagonists fathers deadly disease. To painful relationships fights and the feeling of life not matter anymore. But it is also in the pain you would find meaning and warmth and so on. It was true to our humanity.
This movie did not have this finger on the pulse that the series had. It was way to bleak. It was also kind of preachy in a strange way. But more so in the way that you should know when you should not stay in a relationship.
I have heard this many times from relationships expert on TV that to many couples stay to long together. This movies seem to have picked up on that. But they forget that the therapists have a stake in that. Is that not a way for them to cover their own ass when things go to hell as it probably does many times after couple therapy, making their effort impossible since it was doomed from the start? Sure it limit the use of couple therapy as well so it is kind of contra productive. But it is preachy and the series never was that.
This movie also have one of the character dying.. This only becomes bleak and looses everything of its former way of trying to find humanity. Therefor the low rating I assume.