Movie #169 "Troubled Water" is my first Scandinavian movie and it was cool. What an intriguing story that kept me enthralled through the whole thing. Halfway through, the POV changes, and we see the other side of the coin, and at first I didn't want to see it because I cared so much about the main guy, but when you see the other side it makes the overall story so much more effective. The ending was so emotional, I was making sounds while I was watching it in bed on my computer with my earphones and woke Dave by mistake (oops!). This is the second movie I've watched in a row that Netflix didn't guess correctly what I would rate it --- I found that intriguing, as well. I highly recommend this, and the organ music in it is beautiful, too. And the acting was so good! The woman who plays Agnes acts/looks like Helen Mirren, and the lead guy looks like Ryan Gossling ---- and what a powerful character he portrays in this film. Overall, the film brings up questions of parenting, atonement, forgiveness (God's and for each other), are people allowed to have a second chance, and more.
Average rating: 3.347
I'd give it a 5
Troubled Water
DeUsynlige
(2008) NR
After serving time in prison for murdering a child, Jan Thomas (Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen) takes a job as a church organist and becomes involved with Anna (Ellen Dorrit Petersen), a pastor and single mother -- but the crime he insists he didn't commit still haunts him. Jan keeps his past a secret from Anna, but when a local woman (Trine Dyrholm) recognizes him as the convicted killer of her son, his new life is threatened in this tense drama.
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