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Actors: Kim Bodnia, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sofie Grabol, Ulf Pilgaard
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Nightwatch (1994) |
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NIGHTWATCH (Nattevagten) is a danish movie written and directed by Ole Bornedal in 1994.
Martin is a law student who's just accepted a job as a night watchman at the local morgue. Meanwhile an unknown killer is murdering prostitutes in the city.
Highly recommended.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Nightwatch (1994) |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Moderately Challenging
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 70%
Murders of set profession?
- prostitutes/strippers/porn
Misc. Plotlets
- local police have IQ of houseplant
Special suspect?
- best friend
Kind of mystery?
- police procedural
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Scandinavian
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
How much in movie?
- 60%
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- killer
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Scandinavian
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Scandinavia
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- scientific labs
- building
- church/synagogue
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
Subtitles?
- Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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