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nineveh_ukApparently my brain is feeling incapable of writing intelligent and nuanced posts about important subjects, so I shall stick to saying that I was very entertained by lightweight* Norwegian mockumentary The Troll Hunter at the weekend. There are about 15 minutes of lovely Norwegian road /ferry trip scenery too many, but it is funny (no doubt funnier if one is actually Norwegian and gets all the culturally-specific jokes), even the excess scenery is attractive, and the special effects are generally pretty decent. And how many films do you know that reference the Billy Goats Gruff? The troll hunter himself might look like a hairy Indiana Jones, but his motivation for the film is that of the disaffected bureaucrat fed up of filling in what the (not as good as they ought to be) subtitles call the “Slayed Troll” form and arguing with his superiors who don’t understand the realities on the ground of practical troll management, without even an antisocial hours allowance. It also provides an excellent explanation for the Norwegian tendency to stick electricity pylons slap bang through the middle of attractive scenery.
*There need to be more good lightweight films.
*There need to be more good lightweight films.
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Date: 2012-02-21 01:37 pm (UTC)On a very slightly related topic, did you see the news story about the Swedish guy who survived two months snowed into his car? Yikes!
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Date: 2012-02-21 02:28 pm (UTC)I saw the car, but wondered how exactly it happened. Did he just lie down when he was stuck one night and then sleep for 2 months? Because otherwise he was only 1km from a road, so why did he not get out of the car and walk for help straight away? Or at least when no help arrived after a couple of hours.
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Date: 2012-02-21 03:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-21 03:09 pm (UTC)The Finn is hoping
Nazis From The MoonIron Sky (http://www.ironsky.net/site/) might make it to Taunton but I'm not sure it really counts as a Finnish film when it's not actually in Finnish.(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-21 03:20 pm (UTC)Iron Sky sounds as if it could be so bad it's good, or so bad it's bad...
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Date: 2012-02-22 09:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-21 03:33 pm (UTC)I'm glad I was not the only one who was curious about that. I wonder if it was really bad weather when he crashed, and he had no idea where he was, or had a bang on the head and was thoroughly disorientated for a few days, or even broke a limb? Or maybe he was like the person in the poem (possibly by AA Milne?) who when shipwrecked on a desert island went through all the things he should do (build a hut, catch goats to milk, look for fresh water) but because he can't decide what to do first "Just sat there and basked until he was saved". Sadly I can't find the title online...
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Date: 2012-02-21 04:06 pm (UTC)The Swedish press and the hospital aren't saying anything other than that he is being treated and doing well and that the causes of the incident are still unclear and being investigated.
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Date: 2012-02-21 02:20 pm (UTC)I was also vaguely amused to discover that the Norwegian for 'troll piss' is, in fact, 'troll piss'.
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Date: 2012-02-21 02:40 pm (UTC)