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...Terribly Happy,” Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz’s latest thriller, the residents of Skarrild, a small, despondent Danish village in southern Jutland, have discovered a foolproof way to eliminate their problems: plunge them into the mysterious town bog. As a voiceover in the film’s opening scene recounts, the bog first achieved fame when a cow, after being buried in the bog for months, reemerged and gave birth to a calf with two heads, one of a calf and the other human. The beast subsequently incited a plague of mad cow disease...
...married woman, Ingelise (Lene Maria Christensen), who claims that her husband, Jorgen (Kim Bodnia), beats her. What ensues is a love-triangle ripe with violence and unexpected twists. As Robert learns to adapt to his surroundings and situation, he eventually finds himself inextricably mired in the more figurative bog of Skarrild’s crime, revenge, and complicity...
...historical anecdotes, not only about the Germans and Nazis, but also the foreigners who worked alongside them, and what they thought about the war. As Bachmann’s mental state deteriorates, so does the language of novel, and by the end, Lind mires his characters in a bog of metaphors and fleshy images. It is ultimately Lind’s subtle touch that renders this kind of stagnant illness and sparse landscape unique and full, and his grace as a writer that transforms the atrocities of war into poignant and stirring depictions of human nature pushed to its limit...
...first scene, meaty men get gunned down in a tanning salon. That sets the movie's dramatic coordinates. People die stepping outside their front door, or in a whorehouse, or just fooling around on the street. In a typical crime movie, there's a suspenseful buildup to the bog kills. Here, death explodes prosaically, capriciously, as in Baghdad or Kabul...
...spectators to the competition held in Rhode Island. Hailed (by ESPN) as a huge success, the Games, originally planned to be biennial, were quickly rescheduled to be held every year. In 1996, marketers promoted the remonickered X Games as "sheer unadulterated athletic lunacy." (See pictures of the World Bog Snorkelling Championships...