It is lucky in misfortune that the ”Kursk” comes in the wake of another, even worse ubåtsfilm. While januaripremiären ”Hunter killer” looked like a generic product from a actionlabb, reminds Thomas Vinterbergs ”Kursk” at least if a real movie.
the Actors try to make the character portrayals, unlike the ensemble in the ”Hunter killer”, which was reduced to pieces in a sammanbitet undervattensschack. The lights malfunctioning and cellskräcken feels in the ”Kursk”, while the international political undertones of the crisis barely rippled the film’s surface in the ”Hunter killer”.
to scrape on the alloy steel to discover konstruktionsproblemen in Thomas Vinterbergs film. ”Kursk” depicts the sinking of the Russian unemployment with the same name in the year 2000, but the actors named Matthias Schoenaerts (Belgium), Léa Seydoux (France), August Diehl (Germany) and Joel Basmann (Switzerland). Several swedes can also past: Pernilla August, Gustaf Hammarsten and Max von Sydow. Everyone speaks English. The film is recorded in Belgium and Norway.
Authenticity is a malleable concept, and it is perfectly possible to take artistic liberties, even in movies based on real events, but this is too much blocking actorising. And with the Russian ubåtsmännens drunken fraternization accompanied by an English-speaking sjömansvisa. And oh, what a film this event had been in the hands of, say, Andrei Zvjagintsev.
From the movie ”Kursk”. Photo: Mika Cotellon
It is also easy to understand why the ”Kursk” is not a Russian movie – the disaster in the Barents sea was an early setback in Putin’s presidency. Course, it would be unthinkable for the Russian actors to participate in the Vinterbergs film.
Therefore, sank the Russian submarine Kursk
the Russian crisis does not show himself from his best side in the movie and räddningspådraget slowed by the pr reasons. ”Kursk” presents convincing människofientliga maktlogiken, which wintered from the cold war days, but it is not possible to get away from Thomas Vinterbergs film is a geopolitical picture book.
to sacrifice their soldiers in order not to lose face, while the british fleet is made up of humanitarian-oriented … ” without ugly ulterior motives. In the film portraying Colin Firth sjöofficeren who want to come to the rescue but encounter a patrol of himself, Max von Sydow, in the role of halsstarrig commander.
Kursk is hardly a badly selected case study for those who wish to pursue the thesis, but the vivid or thought-provoking film-making.
See more: Three other ubåtsfilmer: ”Polarstation Zebra unresponsive” (1968), ”the Submarine” (1981), ”Red sea” (1995).
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