Review: THE UNTHINKABLE Slowly Unleashes Family Hell From Sweden
Christoffer Nordenrot, Lisa Henni and Jesper Barkselius star in a sci-fi action mystery from Sweden that builds to a wild crescendo, directed by filmmaking collective Crazy Pictures.'
Family: can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em (legally).
We can definitely be tempted by murderous impulses, the kind that are born from flashpoint anger. We can question the motives of those closest to us, whether by birth or marriage. What was he/she/they
thinking?
Families, and movies about families, are anathema to some people, and with good reason. Too often, filmmakers depend heavily upon warm, nostalgic feelings about families, taking it as a given and thus allowing the indulgence of rushed narratives filled with assumptions, as though everyone in the world has a similar set of experiences, or at least experiences easily divided into broad stereotypes: I love my wonderful family; our family was incredibly dysfunctional; what family?