The story starts with a lovely and pretty but obviously deeply troubled disabled girl announcing to her family (mum, brother and his girlfriend) that she is marrying a strange, bumbling fat guy she literally just introduced. Family is obviously stunned but supportive; cut to the wedding. Everyone seem happy and relaxed. But the night after the wedding the girl commits suicide, leaving her brother, and her chubby new husband, completely inconsolable... All seem to point to the girl, Julie, just carrying out successfully what she tried to do several times before. However, her brother, Jacob, starts getting suspicious of the groom/ widower and decides to dig deeper. He discovers that the guy has been married before, also to a disabled girl, and she also died. Committed suicide. He goes to find where this guy, Anker, is living now - and finds out that he is about to marry another disabled girl. He also discovers a box of stuff belonging to Anker with video footage from the weddings (with identical speeches); morphine prescription; other dodgy stuff. So, armed with all this, what this seemingly well meaning and normal person is going to do next? Go to the police? Share his findings with anyone? Nope. He will keep it all to himself, act weird, not tell anyone anything at all - not a word! Even when arrested on suspicion of murder. And the police?... Two of the girls Anker was involved with lived in the neighbouring villages, but there were no questions asked by anyone who knew them. No one ever wondered why this guy's spouses all committed suicide in the exactly same way, why they never lasted past the wedding night, or why he only ever marries disabled people. The actions of the village policeman are also completely illogical and borderline psychotic, I have no idea why Jacob is all friendly with the guy at the end instead of punching him in the face. Tragically, Jacobs weird resistance to say anything and Karl the policeman's idiocy and lack of professionalism resulted in Anker's latest victim, Hanna, ending up nearly dead, but its like, ok, no worries.
I appreciated the quality of production, and the actors; I enjoyed watching it despite the plot holes, but failed to connect to the story on any emotional level. I think the film attempts to be deep and thoughtful on the subject of disability and death, but does it in such a ham-fisted way that instead it ends up portraying a sadistic Harold Shipman type in a sympathetic light. It is definitely not a story about coming to terms with suicide (as some suggested) - the film is explicitly not about suicide or even about euthanasia, its about crazy weirdo murdering helpless women because he thinks they want to die. There is an attempt to show Jacob's guilt trip over the death of his siter, but its muddled, odd and hard to understand. For me, it was a very confused and strange story.
I appreciated the quality of production, and the actors; I enjoyed watching it despite the plot holes, but failed to connect to the story on any emotional level. I think the film attempts to be deep and thoughtful on the subject of disability and death, but does it in such a ham-fisted way that instead it ends up portraying a sadistic Harold Shipman type in a sympathetic light. It is definitely not a story about coming to terms with suicide (as some suggested) - the film is explicitly not about suicide or even about euthanasia, its about crazy weirdo murdering helpless women because he thinks they want to die. There is an attempt to show Jacob's guilt trip over the death of his siter, but its muddled, odd and hard to understand. For me, it was a very confused and strange story.