This movie is about weather or not your actions is justified based on your gender and weather or not you should be held accountable for your actions based on your gender. And as the movie is trying to tell you if you are a woman you should not. I am not a sexist but this movie is just ridiculous. And here they are ALL terrible people except the cop who is not perfect (as no one is), but just alright.
We meet Artan who without any explanation goes to a hospital, punches the receptionist in the face and demands to see his ex- wife for a reason we at this point do not know. He is angry, sad and depressed and clearly out of his mind, so he pulls a gun, and after a hostage situation he kidnaps his ex- wife and drive off with a cop forced to drive the g.a. Car. After 38 minutes things start to unravel and you get a deeper understanding of what has happened between the ex- couple and why he is so distressed. His wife wrongly accused him of being neglectfull and abusive of their child, and for pushing her father who came to kick him out. Turns out the reason she accused him was because she was mad at him for cheating and she wanted revenge so she frames him for her actions even though she was the one who neglected the child and put it in hot water which he tried to save the child from. So he ends up with 3 months in jail. She has some undisclosed mental issues and takes many pills regularly to keep her self steady'er and was clearly in a bad state during this time of their relationship. So Artan neglects her to take care of the child. Clearly a match never ment to be.
Artan is desperate to be with his family so he forces by gun his ex- wife and the cop to stop at her parents house to pick up their 1 y.o. Daughter (the only innocent person in the movie). There we meet her parents, probably the most racist people in Sweden. So, after a tumultuous altercation with her extremely and still 'racist' parents, they pick up their daughter and the kidnaping- convoy moves on.
Artan has now kidnaped his ex- wife and 1 y.o. Daughter and is looking for a way out. They drive along as Artan is looking for a way out and more revelations comes out. The cop also cheated on his ex-wife and has a troubled relationship with his son who blames him for breaking up their family. And Louise (Artans ex- wife) blames her neglect and abuse on her mental state, saying she had a psychosis and that she shouldn't be blamed because no mother intentionally wants to hurt their child and that's supposed to make it okey (not that it matteres for the abused and neglected child).
Eventually things come to an end and Artan is apprehended by the police and Louise is left with the child. And I am left with the impression that there is no real winners in this movie (except Louise who is not prosecuted for neglect and abuse of her own child). We don't see it because the movie ends but Artan is probably and 'rightfully so prosecuted for kidnaping, extortion, threatening and holding people hostage with a gun and violence against a woman (the receptionist), so he fully gets what he deserves. Yet, the real victim and looser of this movie is the 1 y.o. Daughter who is now stuck with her pill addicted and neglectful, abusive and mentally unstable mother and her racist grandparents.
So at the end of the day, this a deeply tragic movie where a little girl falls victim of terrible (meaning both of them) parents acting crazy and trying to justify their cruel and terrible actions. There is only one vicim here and that is the little girl who has to grow up with these terribly terrible people in this sad and tragic story.
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