Evil

This is one of my favourite movies (and books)!

A must see!

Loved every bit of this movie. I just had to endure the amount of restraint the main character had, not to beat the shit out of the people that deserved it.

When Erik's digging a grave in the rain, on command of one of the "bullies". There's a moment when he comes to check up on him. And Erik slightly raises the shovel, and you can actually see the fear in the bullies eyes. Because the only thing that's stopping Erik is the fact that he's being constrained by consequences. There's small things like that which contribute to making this a great movie.

An interesting reflection on violence set in the fifties in an oppressive environment, where control is exercised by the students themselves. Erik develops in a double environment of abuse, between his home and the boarding school, at the same time using violence as the only way to face reality. Addressing the abuse of power and psychological terror, the film offers explicit scenes of bullying that show the permanence of a system based on violence, an autobiographical reflection of the novel's author, Jan Guillou. With a somewhat less convincing ending, the film maintains a constant distressing atmosphere.

Amateurishly made, this film does contain *something* on the effects of bullying. Sadly, this is more feeling than emotion, in the physical sense. Knock, knock.

The original title of the film is Ondskan.