Although L still proclaims that her back is much better, thankfully
she doesn’t intend to test it out at Parkrun today. She’s put herself on a
running embargo for the whole of October, which is nice and sensible.
Jo Nesbø’s book ‘The Snowman’ made for a weirdly complicated
read, so how will it transfer to the big screen? Unless they’re simplified it
probably badly, if they’ve made it even more complicated then very badly.
Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender) is the man chasing the Snowman, a serial killer who has the time to make an actual snowman at the scene of all his crimes. As a detective, Hole is a loose-cannon and an alcoholic who probably wouldn’t have had a hope of detecting anything had the killer not chosen to send clues personally addressed to him.
In the afternoon Derby make incredibly hard work of beating
a Sheffield Wednesday team who gift Derby a penalty and a one man advantage as
early as the 5th minute but they crawl home to a 2-0 win eventually.
In the evening Daughter joins us at Broadway to see a film.
Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender) is the man chasing the Snowman, a serial killer who has the time to make an actual snowman at the scene of all his crimes. As a detective, Hole is a loose-cannon and an alcoholic who probably wouldn’t have had a hope of detecting anything had the killer not chosen to send clues personally addressed to him.
The Snowman has issues from childhood when his mother drove
intentionally into a frozen lake and drowned while he escaped. Hole has issues too,
his drunken behaviour has broken up his relationship with Rakel (Charlotte
Gainsbourg) but they remain 'friends' largely because Harry gets on so well
with her teenage son Oleg (Michael Yates) not that effective childcare seems to
be a particular forte of his either.
Hole’s newbie detective partner Katrine (Rebecca Ferguson)
has issues too (of course) centring around her father, another unconventional
boozed up cop (Val Kilmer), who we see in flashbacks.
Her big moment is springing a honey trap for publishing
mogul editor Arve Støp (JK Simmons). A man who has a disturbing habit of
photographing women he’s only just met. Yet while the film contains the
contractual obligation of a full frontal Michael Fassbender topless scene, the
female topless scene photographed by Støp seems to have been cut during the
editing. Which is disgracefully unPC.
Needless to say the crime eventually gets solved, only after
considerably bloodshed and with no great thanks to a fascinating piece of
police kit known as the EviSync, which seems to do everything for the police
bar actually solve the case. The only problem is it's about as portable as a
tumble drier.
It’s a watchable thriller, if a largely nonsensical one where
it’s difficult to keep track of who’s chasing who and why. To be fair to
Fassbender, he makes a good drunk but the real stars of the film are the
wintery landscapes of Oslo and Bergen.
(Saturday 21st October)
There is more crime later when we charged £5.90 in the Lord
Roberts for a bottle Leffe Blonde. These things usually sell for around £3. We are so disgusted we move on to the Peacock and the OP.
(Saturday 21st October)
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