2018 ‘Den skyldige’ Directed by Gustav Möller
Police officer Asger Holm, demoted to desk work as an alarm dispatcher, answers a call from a panicked woman who claims to have been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and with the phone as his only tool, Asger races against time to get help and find her.
Jakob Cedergren Jessica Dinnage Omar Shargawi Johan Olsen Jacob Ulrik Lohmann Katinka Evers-Jahnsen Jeanette Lindbæk Simon Bennebjerg Laura Bro Morten Suurballe Guuled Abdi Youssef Caroline Løppke Peter Christoffersen Nicolai Wendelbo Morten Thunbo Maria Gersby Cissé Anders Brink Madsen Tommy Bach Jan Christensen Christian Lassen Michael Rud Jørgen Niclasen Helena Malmros Axel Christensen Alexander Clement Camilla Lau
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“someone needs us”
phenomenal, the intensity was so well maintained that it only felt minutes long. the script is solid as a rock and the plot twists were so alarming that i could feel my own heartbeat thudding wildly in my chest. i would definitely definitely check this out, especially since the runtime is a perfect 85 minutes long
I have this problem where I get ahead of stuff really fast. I've seen too many goddamn movies and a lot of times plot twists just announce themselves to me immediately. I don't do it on purpose and I don't say this to brag. It irritates a lot of my friends and generally ruins sturdy premise-based thrillers like this for me. Anyway.
In the vein of Locke, this super low-budget but effective thriller had me on the edge of my seat. It had the appropriate twists and turns to keep the audience guessing. It played with my emotions and had me in tears. How come Danish films are often just so good?
Vegan alert:
Iben’s favorite food is pork sausage.
Vegan points:
The police dispatcher doesn’t eat pork.
I'm pretty sure this movie's goal was to give me a panic attack... No joke, there were a couple of moments when I had to pause it to get my sh*t together. This story is nuts. This thriller is nuts. Watching someone take phone calls for 85 minutes has never been so stressful. One of the best single location movies out there. I'm going to go take a shot of something strong now. Bye.
“I didn’t have the heart to tell her.”
Brutal. The Guilty takes a premise similar to 2013’s Locke and amps the stakes all the way up. One man, one location, a constant stream of phone calls. I was not prepared for how deeply tense this was, nor how shocking the twists would be. Some of the events described in these emergency calls are absolutely grisly, but the restraint in not depicting any of it made it able to take (in small doses). This is incredible work for a debut, and the lead’s performance of such a flawed character was perfect. It was so compelling to see a character with so much passion who just was not built for the task at hand.
Please take notice of the weird similarity between this poster and the one for Halloween. I’m sadly not joking when I say that I primarily saw this tonight and not later on so the posters could be side-by-side.
Rating: 87/100
Watched this in preparation for the remake with my boy Jakey G.
And add this to the list of movies with just perfect titles.
For a single setting film to be effective, it kind of has to be anxiety-inducing. And man did this fit that bill. So intense. The suspense and lack of reveals early on were perfect. The lead performance from Jakob Cedergren (& really the driver of most of what makes this movie work) was phenomenal.
As much as I love Jake Gyllenhaal, I’m definitely not expecting to like the remake more than this.
I need to do a better job of finding films from other countries like this. I only saw it because it’s being remade but this is a stellar film that deserves to be seen on its own accord. Also, who was he calling at the end?
This was an interesting movie where we follow a police officer, who has been placed in the emergency call center.
The idea reminded me of the movie “The Call” with Halle Berry, and I thought it was just going to be a Danish remake, but it actually felt original and pretty different from “The Call”, while also not relying on action.
The movie is basically just about a police officer trying to solve a case through the phone, while occasionally looking up information on his computer and we never leave him. We only follow the police officer Asger and we never leave the room, everything we learn about the case is heard through the phone and somehow the movie still…
59/100
Does a solid if unremarkable job of sustaining visual interest while confined to a single bland location, and generates considerable suspense from noises heard tinnily through the protagonist's earpiece. Lead actor Jakob Cedergren (who'd previously wowed me in Malmros' Sorrow and Joy) is otherwise the whole show, and he deftly ricochets between testy entitlement and sincere compassion, with the latter somehow gradually becoming even more unprofessional than the former. Vague allusions to some past malfeasance worried me, but I wound up quite liking the way Möller and co-writer Emil Nygaard Albertsen eventually tie that revelation into the present-tense drama. My one sizable reservation—yes, I fear I must Go There—involves basic plausibility. I can rationalize (with some effort) each of…
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Was "Searching" mit dem Internet gemacht hat, transportiert The Guilty auf das Telefon. Ein Beamter in der Notfallzentrale erhält einen Anruf von einer Frau und sagt ihm, dass sie entführt wurde. Dieser versucht nun mit allen Mitteln, die ihm zu Verfügung stehen, der Frau zu helfen. Dabei kommen nach und nach schockierende Details ans Licht.
The Guilty ist spannend bis zum Anschlag. Wie der Film es schafft, alle Informationen und Situationen fast ausschließlich durch den Sound zu übertragen ist genial. In einem Wettlauf gegen die Zeit verliert auch der Protagonist nach und nach seine Nerven, wird ungeduldig und ausfallend. Und zieht auch weitere Personen mit in den skurrilen Fall hinein.
Simple Mittel, packende Story, dichte…
