Beyond the story

Luciano 2022-03-29 09:01:09

Without any premise, the terrorist attack of 7.22 was fully demonstrated in the opening 30 minutes and the focus was on the social shock after the incident. The narrative is restrained and calm. Except for the protagonist, the victims are only depicted in the medium shot. However, from the struggle of the family after the event, it is easy to imagine that the same emotions also happened to the families of 77 dead and more than 200 injured.

The perception is not limited to the event itself, but pulls back the time to the eighth and ninth centuries AD, when the brave and savage Vikings used long ships and axes to toss Europe to the death. Branches and leaves multiply, those who stay in England become the current British, and those who stay in France become the current French.

Thousands of years have passed, and as the richest Nordic country on earth, the most hard-core leftist intellectuals have been born. Their vision is by no means limited to their own country or even the continent where they are located. They look around the five continents and seven oceans and take the fate of mankind as their starting point. Even if it seems hollow and ludicrous to us and dubbed the "white left".

Was the perpetrator of the terrorist attack wrong? Now of course we speak in unison. But more than 1,000 years ago, it was definitely "patriots" who held this opinion. Originally, the early human race was a competition between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. In the feudal period, it was a competition between ethnic groups. When the continent as the basic unit seems to be far away, the Nordic thinking has already entered the human destiny body and the like.

Is there something wrong? Whoever it is, it is undoubtedly a warm current for the blue planet, but not necessarily for the Norwegians. In recent years, the waves of xenophobia in Europe have been rising one after another, and right-wing political parties have come to the fore. Our old saying goes that "courtesy of the warehouse" has returned from the peak of human beings to the historical normal. Europe, a continent that has created a splendid culture and industry, will inevitably go through a period of time. Grind, what will happen in the end, no one knows.

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Extended Reading
  • Godfrey 2022-03-18 09:01:09

    3.5; From the perspective of the film, the killing from the opening cuts into the cut, and then the government, lawyers, and the Via family are divided into three lines to narrate the progress of the incident. The camera is calm and neat, and it ends with Via facing the killer and completing his personal mentality. However, if combined with the political environment and the facts, it will appear vague and inexplicable. The turmoil caused by the refugee flow in Europe has become a serious problem. It is by no means that the last few high-profile sentences will be able to clear the mud, nor can the boundaries between right-wing forces and terrorists Mix it up.

  • Estefania 2022-03-16 09:01:09

    Based on true events. Extremely calm and restrained, he finished telling such a tragic story calmly. Not trying to elicit tears from start to finish is the noble thing. The terrorist attack at the beginning was neat and tidy, confronted the violence without any fuss, and was almost cruel. After the terrorist attack, the next series of questions are the focus of the film. The play wisely chooses four angles: how the prime minister responds at the national level, what are the demands of the far-right who launched the terrorist attack, how the lawyer defending the terrorist demonstrates the rule of law, and how the victims of the terrorist attack face life again. The four angles are stable, accurate, and a little messy, but they are still accurate and effective, and they handle neo-Nazis, racism, and extreme rightists, a topic that is becoming more and more sensitive at the moment.

22 July quotes

  • Lara: How are you feeling?

    Viljar: I'm okay. And you?

    Lara: Yeah. I'm fine. I was in the shower block when it started, so I managed to run and hide. But I got separated from my sister Bano. I'm sorry about Simon and Anders, too.

    Viljar: It's shit.

    Lara: How is the food here? Is it okay?

    Viljar: It's pretty shit, too. Actually, it's *really* shit.

    Lara: If you want, I can bring you something. Food, or anything.

    Viljar: No. No, I'm fine. I don't have much appetite.

    Lara: Do you want anything else? Cigarettes or...

    Viljar: That would have been nice.

    Lara: Okay.

    Viljar: ...Except I don't smoke.

    [they share a relieving laugh]

  • Judge Wenche Arntzen: Can you tell us what happened to you on Utøya, Viljar?

    Viljar: Yes.

    [has a flashback in his head]

    Viljar: He tried to... he tried to kill me. I remember... seeing him... and then running away... trying to find somewhere to hide, and protecting my little brother. I remember being shot. Five times. When I was lying on the beach, I was... all alone. In a kind of pain I couldn't imagine.

    Judge Wenche Arntzen: But now you are here.

    Viljar: But everything's different. I've had to relearn how to use my body. Learn how to walk again. How to feed myself again. I have little use of my left arm, and I'm... I'm blind on one eye. But that's, uh... that's a relief.

    Judge Wenche Arntzen: A relief. How do you mean?

    Viljar: [laughs shakily] A relief, in a way that at least now I don't have to look at him.

    [some of the people in the audience laugh briefly]

    Viljar: But of course it's not that simple. I... I have a fragment of his bullet lodged in my brain that could kill me at any time. And I don't look like the person I used to anymore, I... My body, it's... it's broken. And the worst is that he... he killed Anders and Simon, my best friends. Stopping them from making their mark on the world, and... and they would have made it a better place. And I... I miss them every day. I'm sorry, I... I didn't... I didn't want to cry. I so much didn't want to cry in front of him. I... I wanted to stay strong. Because I do this for them. So they will not be forgotten. And when you shot them and left me alone on the beach, I didn't know if I was living or dying. And I've been stuck there ever since. But now... I realize that I got a choice. Because I still have a family... and friends... and memories. Dreams. Hope. And love. And he doesn't. He's... completely alone. And he's going to rot there in prison, whereas I... I survived. And I choose to live.