... but falls flat on its face.
Out of Tune (De frivillige) seems to try and follow the Dark comedy theme that a lot of Danish comedies are known for such as Flickering Lights (Blinkende Lygter), The Green Butchers (De Grønne Slagtere), Adam's Apples (Adams Æbler) and more.
But for this story, the humour is just not there.
The movie takes place in a prison where our protagonist (Markus) is put in remand for financial crimes for a few months before sentencing. While there he gets jumped for owing 3 million to a ganster that does not understand how stocks works.
After this, he accepts to do voluntary isolation even though he does not like the idea of being near sex criminals, who usually take voluntary isolation in order to void the other inmates.
A few weeks after what seems to be a depression Markus accepts to join the prison choir, led by the prisoner Niels, who seems to love the structure and rules in prison more than the free world he came from.
At the moment Markus sets his mind to ending the tyrannical rule of Niels and take over power himself, and it is slowly revealed that Markus the man was not as beloved as he saw himself outside of prison creating a mirror image of his true character.
The social commentary is kinda there but the story is not very entertaining, and the humour is not absurd enough to land the jokes.
If you want to watch a movie where criminals fight with both internal and external forces, and still sympathise with them in the end?
Then find Flickering Lights instead, at least that one got symbolism and funny jokes.
Out of Tune (De frivillige) seems to try and follow the Dark comedy theme that a lot of Danish comedies are known for such as Flickering Lights (Blinkende Lygter), The Green Butchers (De Grønne Slagtere), Adam's Apples (Adams Æbler) and more.
But for this story, the humour is just not there.
The movie takes place in a prison where our protagonist (Markus) is put in remand for financial crimes for a few months before sentencing. While there he gets jumped for owing 3 million to a ganster that does not understand how stocks works.
After this, he accepts to do voluntary isolation even though he does not like the idea of being near sex criminals, who usually take voluntary isolation in order to void the other inmates.
A few weeks after what seems to be a depression Markus accepts to join the prison choir, led by the prisoner Niels, who seems to love the structure and rules in prison more than the free world he came from.
At the moment Markus sets his mind to ending the tyrannical rule of Niels and take over power himself, and it is slowly revealed that Markus the man was not as beloved as he saw himself outside of prison creating a mirror image of his true character.
The social commentary is kinda there but the story is not very entertaining, and the humour is not absurd enough to land the jokes.
If you want to watch a movie where criminals fight with both internal and external forces, and still sympathise with them in the end?
Then find Flickering Lights instead, at least that one got symbolism and funny jokes.