Your thoughts on Adams Æbler ?

I don't agree at all!

I believe that the morale of the story real was that there is no evil! That there is just temptations from the devil!

It is true that Ivan (the preist) is denying a lot of truths in the beginning. It is also true that it looks like nothing has changed from the beginning to the end. But I believe that something has.

Unfortunately we don't see him admit that his kid is not o.k. in his head or that his wife did in fact commit suicide. Yet I do believe that he has changed. But he still believes in the good of people. And I think that the hole story around Adam proves him right. - Or at least gives some validity to that statement of the movie (which is of course rather controversial, - and will of cause continue to be).

The things that we, the doctor, Adam etc. was sure was just imaginations turned out to be true. The devil really WAS trying Ivan (those of us who have read the book of Job will know that, - I also think to movie indicated this, but not as strong as i could have) both with his wife, his child etc. but also with Adam, the birds, the worms and so forth.

God showed himself for Adam (not in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush but from the flame of fire out of an apple tree (see Exodus 3, 2 (2. book of Moses 3,2))), and Adam starts to believe.

I would have liked to see Ivan argue with God and be mad with God instead of just (temporarily) loose his faith, except for that I believe it is a VERY nice movie!

Everybody i know was so damn psyched. I, myself think this movie was rubbish. It just another attempt to make a movie like Flickering Lights, it just gets worse and worse every time.

I saw this movie the other night at Sundance. I think this movie was outstanding. I really didn't know what to think walking out of this theatre but "wow". Not in comparison, but as shocking, I thought this movie was more so than the likes of Requiem for a Dream, KIDS, Belly, sort of shocking.

The Biblical refrences were just, and made perfectly good sense. I just really otherwise don't know how to talk about it.... I laughed at it uneasily, and felt uncomfortable through a lot of it. Not that I was uncomfortable with the context of the movie, but because I felt for the characters in it.

Just a very very interesting film.

You shouldn´t take the movie so serious with it´s criticism of religion sure there is a moral in the movie but in general danish films arn´t that serious off cause some are. I liked it but i saw it with my class in school and we had to analyze it afterwords that was kind of funny.

Sorry for the bad english im danish! :)

Hi everybody,
just saw the movie this week and I have to say that this is possible the best movie I have seen in quite some time...why? Because watching it made me laugh so bad that I started crying and watching it gave me also a break from real life! This movie with its dialogues and scenes is soo absolutly absurd and dark that it is simply fantastic! Usually, I am quite sensible about foreign movies dealing with neo-nazism and skinheads but this movie stayed (in my opinion) on the right side of the red line because of its absurdity...who would expect a danish priest asking if it's your father when seeing a picture of Hitler? Who would expect the mass-murder of the cat and the birds in the apple-tree? Who would expect the final reasoning of the big guy and his newly wife for moving to Asia? Some of these jokes and lines are really bad but because of the entire context they become acceptable in my opinion! My congratualtions to the script-writer, who must be weird but fantastic as well!
Greetings from Norway,
Floppini

well i saw it sunday night here in italy. the italian translation and double voices were just great and I think they repesented the orginal funny where it was supposed to be (kabul, for istance);

Great movie I agree with the last comment.

martin

I liked it, but found it to be a bit monotonous.

I have noticed some here complaining about the repetition in the choice of actors for our Danish movies.

Here's the thing. We are a small country. Hell, many of you mistake our entire country as being the capitol of *beep* SWEDEN!

We don't have a wide range of movie actors, who are capable of pulling of what these roles call for, it's as simple as that.

However, in my opinion the actors we *do* have, are all of such a quality that they can pull of whatever is thrown at them. Mads Mikkelsen for example is starting to gain international acclaim, he is in the new Bond movie as well.

We have about 5 million people in our entire country, you cannot expect us to have as many "huge" actors to chose from, as for example America does. It's not like we can import talent and make them speak danish, now is it?

So stop complaining and appreciate something different than what hollywood throws at you. At least we aren't afraid of trying out new things, and pushing the boundaries, as we don't have to suck up to Oscar comminities and what have you.

If you can't handle watching movies in any other language than english, you're very narrow minded and utterly dull - and I feel sorry for you.

I, myself, have been enjoying various icelandic, swedish, norwegian and even Korean movies.
I find 99% of what hollywood churns out is generic and dull - and not worth spending money on.

The latest 3 star wars movies combined can't hold a CANDLE to Adams Æbler.

Feel free to flame me, but I know I'm right.

For other great movies, check out Pusher (not 2-3 they suck) but the first one, and Bleeder. Both starring Kim Bodnia. From what I can remember Kim Bodnia almost had a psycotic episode because he got so drawn in by his character in Bleeder.

Regards,
Bjørn Froberg
Denmark