SYNOPSICS
Du forsvinder (2017) is a Danish,Swedish,English,Spanish movie. Peter Schønau Fog has directed this movie. Trine Dyrholm,Nikolaj Lie Kaas,Michael Nyqvist,Mikkel Boe Følsgaard are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2017. Du forsvinder (2017) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
Mia is married to the successful headmaster Frederik, who is caught embezzling from his own school. But did he do this of his own free will - or has his personality been altered by the tumour lurking in his brain? Mia is desperate to uncover what kind of man she is actually married to. If the happiest three years of Mia's life with Frederik were while he had a tumour in his brain, who was she married to before? YOU DISAPPEAR is a movie about the challenges we face as neuroscience forces us to rethink what we are as human beings.
Du forsvinder (2017) Reviews
Mind blowing masterpiece
Watching and afterwards discussing "You disappear" with a friend, this became a mind blowing experience for me. At first everything seemed like a mess, but then my brain started to make an order out of things. It began to piece everything together into a story. When the film was over I had a really strong idea of what film I've been watching, but when I talked to my friend I realized that he had a completely different experience of what the story was. I think this is one of the points of the film. We are our brains. Our brains perceive the world different. I've never watched a film like this before. What it does to you, does it really well, which makes it a masterpiece for me. For me this film is taking filmmaking into new territory. It's a film about how YOU think.
The Directors Statement
After watching "You Disappear" my head was full of questions so I googled it and this very interesting statement of the director came up: "YOU DISAPPEAR isn't a movie in the traditional sense. It is a collage of experiences dealing with the challenges we face as neuro-science forces us to re-think what we are as human beings. If we're simply biological systems with unreliable brains, being flung through our chaotic and fragmented lives, then none of the traditional tools of storytelling will apply to filmmaking anymore. For example, the linear causality of Aristotle, character development via Freud's thoughts on realisation, rigid genres, and the backbone of mainstream cinema; that we are all strong-willed heroes in a meaningful world consisting of obstacles that are only meant to shape us into better people. All of that stuff will be obsolete. Cinema as a medium is based on the ability of the human brain to piece together fragments into meaningful wholes. YOU DISAPPEAR uses disjointed fragments of fiction, facts, memories and imagination, which will prompt both curiosity and confusion, empathy and emotional detachment. And that's fine. Our brains are all different; they shape the way we experience the world around us. As such, we want to allow the experiences and narrative connections to form in the mind of each individual moviegoer. It is probably fair to say that YOU DISAPPEAR is a demanding movie. It demands of its audience that they let go of conventional ideas of what a movie should be and instead view it with no preconceived notions welcoming YOU DISAPPEAR as a life experience. Kick back and enjoy the ride."
Wow, what did I just watch?
Try to imagine Ingmar Bergman directing a movie thought out by Alain Resnais! Pretty hard, right? But not after watching this movie. Its digging that deep into the human condition, but also the science behind it. The movie succeeded in making a satisfying whole out of what seems to be opposites: empathy and verfremdung, fiction and facts, science and imagination, real life and theory. A lot of food for thought here and glowing performances, solid direction and a mind-bending, intelligent screenplay. Well done!
An engaging and underrated movie about a man's battle against his own mind.
''Du Forsvinder'' is a Danish production, directed by Peter Schønau Fog and starring a pretty heavy cast of top Scandinavian authors such as Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Trine Dyrholm and the late Michael Nyqvist. Frederic is a headmaster who is accused of embezzling his own school's funds in order to invest them -unsuccessfully- in various ventures. Frederic claims that by the time the crime was committed, he was suffering from orbitofrontal syndrome, a psychiatric disease which includes symptoms like instinctive disinhibition (hypersexuality, hyperphagia and urinary behaviour disorders). The patient of this syndrome is distractable, impulsive, euphoric and unable to abide by social rules. This problem is caused by a tumor on Frederic's brain which is diagnosed after an accident causing skull fractures. The story is narrated by alternatively showing the courtroom procedure of Frederic's case from the beginning until the final verdict and intermittent flashbacks which help the viewer to comprehend the emotional dimension of the film's characters as well as their motives for certain actions. The director focuses almost exclusively to the husband-wife-lawyer triad and their, sometimes complex, relationships between them. The movie raises some interesting questions regarding the subject of free will vs. deterministic neurophysiology and brain chemistry, as well as portraying the struggle of Frederic's family facing an illness which changes a person's demeanor in such a profound way that even his closest relatives, literally, can't recognize them. The performances are great, as expected by such a shining cast and in the end, ''Du Forsvinder'' manages to shake and oblige the reader to think a bit harder about fundamental questions concerning his own existence. Danish cinema continues to produce engaging films. My precise rating is 3,5/5.
Disappointing
This film asks serious questions, but it seems that it hardly scratches the surface for answering them. The main plot is a courtroom drama. Frederik is accused of fraud, but it turns out that he has a brain tumor that might have changed his personality, so that he possibly wasn't aware of doing something wrong. If he in legal terms was insane, he cannot be declared guilty. But is it so simple? It turns out that some changes that he tumor might have cause were present before the tumor grew in his brain. This interesting part of the story-line is however not sufficiently developed. Another subplot is the crumbling marriage between Frederik and his wife Mia. The tumor has, so it seems, made Frederik more aggressive, also in bed. Mia therefore seeks comfort with his husband's lawyer. Or does she? We learn at quite late that Mia is an unreliable narrator. This could serve the point that individual experiences and memories form our perception. But it turns out that the narrator is not only unreliable, but quite nuts. This could at best illustrate a point how the brain works. Indeed, essential issues of brain research and relevant philosophical implications are mentioned, as if the plot was a drama-documentary from Learning Network. But letting the narrator paraphrase these tendencies in brain research almost kills the point of the film. We get the impression that we are witnessing a lecture of a mad scientist. This was probably not the intention of the director. I liked much of this film, but altogether it was an unconvincing attempt. Maybe the script is too close to the novel.