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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.

One of the stupidest scripts I have seen in film.

The protagonist has a suspicion that turns out true and he does nothing with it. He finds evidence and shows them to noone. He is falsely accused of murder and sees no point in sharing his findings with the police. The killer admits to him what he already knows and he is shocked by the "revelation".... and calmly drinks the beverage the killer offers him.

An absorbing psychological thriller, thoroughly renewing the "Bluebeard's wives " subject ,and introducing strong characters ; at first sight ,it seems that butter would not melt in plump Anker's mouth ; he appears as a meek guy ,whose purpose in life seems to find himself a family ;but further aquaintance shows a disturbing guy who,behind a kind face ,hides a darker side .In direct contrast with him , Thomas is the self-assured man ,a journalist and a writer with good prospects ,married to a level-headed woman ;but cracks appear in the mirror: his sister Julie suffers from cerebral injuries;and when he's asked whether he intends to have children ,his answer is vague ; cop Carl discovers disturbing things about a man with whom the viewer is supposed to side.

Thomas' investigation becomes more and more worrying ,as he discovers that his ex brother-in-law repeats the same role with the same kind of girl ; Anker realizes he has blundered when he chose him as his best man and his speech suffers accordingly .This "déjà vu" scene is terrifying and panic-stricken Thomas begins to see what would lie beneath .But these girls are not wealthy and their husband cannot be considered a fortune-hunter,like in other thrillers of the genre.

This is not an ordinary thriller :it's a meditation about death :it's only a detail,but Thomas 's dad who dared his daughter to jump out of the window was a false suicidal man who when cancer was eating away at him ,asked that someone held his hand (and perhaps prevented him from dying) .

Anker remains ambiguous till the very end; the whole movie could be a metaphor for the assisted suicide ; did his wives really lose their reason to live? Is the worst thing in life to die alone,without a dear one to hold your hand? And all in all wasn't Anker a man with suicidal tendencies who had found with Thomas the hand to hold?-which would justify the bizarre final scene between them.

Very classic in its form ,with sex,violence and blood kept to the minimum , "Morke" is not only the name of a town ; it has become the name of a great thriller ;no remake needed.

What the f was the main character doing? His suspicions came through, does nothing with it. He reads the morphine recipe and doesn't connect it to Hanna even after the cops tell Hanna had morphine in her blood. And then he casually drinks some coffee with Anker, stupid. Very annoying movie.

The plot holes towards the end are gigantic and completely kill the whole thing.

It could be so much better if it was about euthanasia.