All countries have their own founding stories. Some of them have had part of their history erased, rewritten or forgotten by their population as a result of multiple wars, disputes, impositions and colonizations; others continue to resist, trying not to let essential elements get lost over time, either passing on and/or recording the stories, or adapting them in a modern and attractive context for today’s world. That’s more or less the vibe of ‘The mountain troll‘, new Norwegian film from Netflix that conquers the viewers and comes first top 10 since its debut.
if small, Nora Tideman 🇧🇷Ine Marie Wilmann) ventured out and believed everything his father said Tobias 🇧🇷Gard B. Eidsvold), it said. After growing up, she worked in archeology, completely moving away from her father and his imaginative stories that had embarrassed her throughout her youth. One day, during construction work on a road through the Dovre Mountains, an unusual explosion causes much of the mountain to collapse, and apparently an unknown creature begins to circle the area, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Because of this Andrew 🇧🇷Kim Falk) recruit daughter in law at the request of the Prime Minister of Norway 🇧🇷Anneke von der Lippe) and together with Capt. Kristoffer 🇧🇷Mas Sjogard Pettersen), the three will go after the mysterious creature before it heads towards Oslo, the country’s capital.
🇧🇷The mountain troll‘ is a film that will surprise you. Drawing from local ancestral legends the Viking tales that tell the origins of the gods, culture and the region of Norway the Roar Uthaug and Aspens Aukan draws on the source of original traditions to build the film’s argument. This is how fantasy and reality mix in a contemporary adventure about the existence of a mystical being the troll in the Norway of today, disguised as a landscape and hidden in the depths of the earth, in a concept demonstrating that “Journey to the Center of the Earth‘, in Jules Verneis a thought as old as it is contemporary.
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With a beautiful theme, the film of Roar Uthaug deals with the obliteration of original stories due to Christianization and forced colonization, all through the biases of man and creature that cinema has already seen so much in films like “King Kong‘ and ‘godzilla🇧🇷 Of course there are moments of violence against the unknown an attitude that lies at the core of behavior in Western societies and they represent the saddest and most painful scenes of ‘The mountain troll‘ demonstrates the film’s plot triangle science, politics, and the army so make no mistake: you’ll be moved.
Despite some inconsistencies in the script (e.g. the fact that no other country, not even the United States, interfered in preventing the creature)’The mountain troll“ is a beautiful and touching film that surprises the viewer. Through fantasy and the action, delivers a film that appeals to young people and adults alike. A pearl of Netflix🇧🇷
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