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At
The Cinema
Wallander Revisited
That's
right, I did nothing today but watch a basketball game, a lacrosse
game, and several episodes of SNOOPS and WALLANDER-the one with Kenneth
Branagh. Above— my new review of Wallander.
Except. Branagh (properly
pronounced "brainer") is such
a fine actor that after three or four episodes he's won me over. Even
with all the blackness that surrounds him, the scripts are good, the
acting top notch, and it beats hell out of the original Swedish
language version (which I also watch). Sorry for previous
dissing.
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I watched the first episode of Wallander. My main complaint is the directing and photography, particularly the over use of extreme close-ups. I will give the next episode a try as soon as my eyes recover.
ReplyDeleteFreddie Sykes
I watched all of them (I think) thru Netflix. It's definitely not your fast-paced shoot 'em up American detective story. Yet it's captivating. Read the last in the series of the novels.
ReplyDeleteHe retires, alone, and dies from his diabetes. And that was just about how the author wrote it.
It's more of a psychological study than anything else. The crimes are the glass slide upon which Wallander is put under the microscope.
I guess that's not really a spoiler.
ReplyDeleteWallander is good but far better are the Danish series, the Protectors, and the Eagle. The French series Spiral is one of the best crime dramas ever.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention that the Swedish Wallander show contains the exquisite Lena Endre (the prosecutor), who makes me forget all my good resolutions.
ReplyDeleteKim
Rodge,
ReplyDeleteYeah, I didn't think so, either. It's the last paragraph of the last book, and not at all relevant to anything going on the previous hundreds of pages.
Henning Mankell - the author of Wallander - is a multi-millionaire Maoist, who is sorry that China has left Maoism. He loves the palestinians and Robert Mugabe while he is an Israel hater. He participated in the Mavi Marmara affair - on the terrorist side:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7atCghrAFZ0
Swedish detective fiction is highly profitable—and intent on slaying the dragon of capitalism
ReplyDeletehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703858404576214481282836602.html
The Danish series, the Protectors, and the Eagle are also p.c. leftist anti-capitalist propaganda.
ReplyDeleteYes I'm danish :-)
Hodja, that's interesting info; I love the words "is a multi-millionaire Maoist."
ReplyDeleteAnyway, when I watch anything Swedish (or Danish for that matter) I assume high fusion levels of socialistic doctrine. But, because I don't live there, and am not familiar with the people like I would be if authored by, say, Ring Lardner Jr, or Lillian Hellman--I can take it at face value. Anyway, at this stage, according to (Obama's auto biographer) Bill Ayer's outline for reeducating Americans," I would be considered unteachable, and thus executed.
"Henning Mankell - the author of Wallander - is a multi-millionaire Maoist, who is sorry that China has left Maoism. He loves the palestinians and Robert Mugabe while he is an Israel hater."
ReplyDelete-- In other words, he's a typical Swede.
Kim