Well, I nevah! It just arrived! Glory be to these internet days!
I already had a quick run through it and the DVD is completely english friendly right from the start as it lets you choose between swedish or english menus.
The only extra to speak of is a (interesting) photo gallery. No other extras, not even a trailer.
There are also no subtitles of any kind (neither swedish nor english) but you can choose to watch the movie with the english or swedish audio tracks. There are 4 audio tracks: swedish 5.1 and stereo and english 5.1 and stereo.
Decent DVD. Nothing more. As for the film itself -- well, I'll let you know when I watch it!
Container (Lukas Moodysson, 2006)
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I watched it last night. It was very quiet in the evening as it was approaching midnight. Perfect time to watch this one as you'll see.
First off, let me just tell you that it is might as well that this DVD didn't carry subtitles because number one, it would have been a mammoth task for the subtitler to write them and an impossible task for the viewer to read them. I'll explain: there are virtually no other soundtrack apart from the narrator's voice. And the female actor that delivers the long monologue doesn't stop talking during its whole 70 or so minutes. As a result, it would have been very hard to read and watch what was going on all the time. Oh, and the DVD doesn't have scene selections but the movie is divided into chapters.
As for the movie itself -- well, I guess that it's a natural progression from Moodysson's previous one (A Hole in my Heart) and he goes even farther with this one, experimenting with both sound and image (it's totally in B/W) but particularly with narrative. While this may sound that Container is an inaccessible film, I actually felt that it was much more approachable than the former one will ever be.
And for those of you that loved his sincere tackling of sexuality in its various forms in the previous films, you have one more reason to like this one too as the story revolves around a fat guy probably in his twenties that wants to be a woman (we're talking pre-op transgender here if you want to get into semanthics). So the whole movie reads like the imaginary diary of this person or if you prefer, like going into this guy's mind and seeing what it feels like from the inside. That's why we hear a girl during the whole monologue.
There are obviously more to write about this one and I can actually picture myself going back to it more times in the future than I ever will for A Hole in my Heart, which is a good thing, I guess.
First off, let me just tell you that it is might as well that this DVD didn't carry subtitles because number one, it would have been a mammoth task for the subtitler to write them and an impossible task for the viewer to read them. I'll explain: there are virtually no other soundtrack apart from the narrator's voice. And the female actor that delivers the long monologue doesn't stop talking during its whole 70 or so minutes. As a result, it would have been very hard to read and watch what was going on all the time. Oh, and the DVD doesn't have scene selections but the movie is divided into chapters.
As for the movie itself -- well, I guess that it's a natural progression from Moodysson's previous one (A Hole in my Heart) and he goes even farther with this one, experimenting with both sound and image (it's totally in B/W) but particularly with narrative. While this may sound that Container is an inaccessible film, I actually felt that it was much more approachable than the former one will ever be.
And for those of you that loved his sincere tackling of sexuality in its various forms in the previous films, you have one more reason to like this one too as the story revolves around a fat guy probably in his twenties that wants to be a woman (we're talking pre-op transgender here if you want to get into semanthics). So the whole movie reads like the imaginary diary of this person or if you prefer, like going into this guy's mind and seeing what it feels like from the inside. That's why we hear a girl during the whole monologue.
There are obviously more to write about this one and I can actually picture myself going back to it more times in the future than I ever will for A Hole in my Heart, which is a good thing, I guess.