Denmark/Sweden
Director: Mikael Hafstrom
Casts: Andreas Wilson
I think originally the film has the intension to tell a story that a man do something bad to others, and that bad thing comes right back to him some day. But the film fell to develop this part very well.
The protagonist, Erik Ponti, become (or try to become)a different person after he goes to the boarding school. He used to bully others, now he is bullied by the seniors. The principal in the former school he attained called him "evil." The following story shows us that Erik is abused by his step father, and it might be the reason he develop such a twisted behavior. But at the time it tells us Erik's "evil" comes from some reasons, not that he is born with it, the film have two seniors bully him just because they want to show their supremacy. Now Erik is a victim, a sympathized character who looses his only friend and his secret lover just because he won't give in. Suddenly he is a total innocent man, and all his "evil" transfers to others: the seniors, his step father, and the mother and school teachers who pretend to see nothing also included.
Pure evil should exist only in fantasy stories, like Sauron in the Lord of the Rings. I just can't bare that a story shows me someone behaves like a prick without explaining why.
And please don't use the cliche that a boy made a girl pregnant in their first intercourse again!
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