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Slim Susie ( Smala Sussie )

Slim Susie ( Smala Sussie )

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michael29187
3.0 out of 5 stars It has some funny moments but overall it is not worth buying
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2014
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Quirky Swedish movie.It has some funny moments but overall it is not worth buying.
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Mystical Reality Is
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliantly Funny Movie! One of the best comedies I've ever seen.
Reviewed in the United States on 26 February 2017
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I love good comedies and they are so rare. I lived in Sweden in the 80's for a year. When I saw this movie I thought to myself,"That could actually have happened where I lived back then." It is an insane movie in many ways, but it is actually plausible if you know rural Sweden as I came to. That somebody was able to distill this in a movie that is so entertaining is amazing to me. I laughed so hard it hurt. You will never see another movie like this one. It is a work of genius! The cultural observation/satire is only comparable to me in American film with maybe "Raising Arizona," "Escanaba In Da Moonlight," or "Waiting for Guffman." Adam Sandler's "Don't Mess With The Zohan" is another somewhat similar type film, but very different. All of them hinge on knowing the cultures and stereotypes and seeing what is really there behind the surface in some way. It ranks among the best comedies I've ever seen. Comedy is really hard to pull off. Absolutely brilliant film that could only have been made by a Swede. My admiration for the work is very high. And it was done on a tight budget, too. I've seen a lot of films at Sundance that could not hold a candle to this one for sheer creativity and nonstop insanity. It is a sleeping gem of a comedy. If it had been done by an American with the same insight into "American" crazy, I suspect it would have been a huge, huge hit.
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Dine Fuss
4.0 out of 5 stars Mischievously Amusing Small Town Comedy...
Reviewed in the United States on 23 July 2005
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Traffic in small towns throughout Sweden is rather limited, as gas prices have been soaring for more than a decade. People seem to stay put and go about their business, even though the life slowly pulls the individual through a painfully dreary existence. I grew up in such a place where the theater showed movies once a week and the movies were released on video at the same time that the theater got them. For a teen, it was agonizing, as nothing ever happened, or changed in my little village. The only thing that was organized for youth and teens was soccer, and of course all kids from the village became a part of the local club team. The director Ulf Malmros whom also grew up in such a place captures the idyllic small town nostalgia of Sweden in an hilariously exaggerated manner.

Slim Susie opens with the main character, Erik (Jonas Rimeika), and another character, Micke Tretton (Johan Andersson), who are introduced in a later disturbing scene involving a nail gun, fleeing from someone, most likely very dangerous. Erik and the other person decide to separate, as Erik seeks refuge in a small local dinner where he sits down and watches the opening credits for this film, which by the way offers an amusing mirroring scene between Erik and a claymation character on the television. The scene on the television does not exactly end the way Erik wants it to end, as he finds himself sitting in front of an unknown person with a creepy persona that demands Erik to tell him what happened.

An offer that Erik cannot refuse makes him begin to tell the story from the beginning, which starts with why and how he got back to his home town. The story is told through a flashback that is frequently broken up by the interrogator, as he demands the truth from Erik. Through the grilling questions Erik reveals a number of different characters from the village who were involved in the incident. It is never clear what has happened, but slowly through Erik's story the truth emerges. One thing the audience does know from the beginning is that his sister Susie (Tuva Novotny) has disappeared and this is why he has returned to his monotonous hometown.

The film, in essence, dwells on existentialism through the meaningless existence that many suffer from in the small town. Malmros' story of Erik's return home travels on the edge of small town existence in Sweden revealing several of the issues in regards to the dull rural town living. Through the characters each issue is presented in a manner of how to reduce the agony of living in the small town. There are issues such as infidelity, drugs, reality escape, and depression, which seem to stem from the unhappiness. Nonetheless, it is within the unhappiness where the strength of the story rests, as Malmros exploits this situation with parody.

Malmros mischievously incorporates cinematic elements from many other films such as Pulp Fiction (1994), A Clockwork Orange (1971), and Trainspotting (1996) into Slim Susie, which only enhances the visual experience. The camerawork playfully utilizes several close-ups that naturally make parts of the scenes look disproportional, which elevates the parody within the story. In addition, throughout the film the many characters come across as eccentrically peculiar, which strengthens the notion that Malmros' youthful boredom might have heavily influenced him in his creation of this fantastic cinematic environment. The combined journey of Malmro's creation will leave the audience with a spectacular tale full of dark humor and existential questions in regards to what one should do with their own life.
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Carl
5.0 out of 5 stars Those Crazy Swedes!
Reviewed in the United States on 31 October 2011
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Maybe it's fate (or maybe I just choose really, really well), but I've yet to see a bad Swedish film. Let the Right One In, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, Show Me Love, and, now, Slim Susie. In the previous instances, most were dark dramas or horror films. This time around, comedy is the order of the day. And, dear God, does it deliver! This film tells the story of Erik (Jonas Rimeika) as he returns to his spurned hometown of Varmland in search of his missing little sister, Susie (Tuva Novotny) and runs astray of drug dealers, corrupt cops, and murderous nursing home employees. Sound dark? That's because it is. But director Ulf Malmros makes up for that darkness by making everyone in the town who isn't Erik psychotically quirky. There's Tore Tumor (Anders Blomberg) who doesn't speak and is in a constant battle of wits with a screaming infant. There's Billy Davidsson (Kjell Bergqvist), the police officer who shirks his job by constantly lamenting his shame for having screwed up in Stockholm and getting stuck in Varmland as the constable. And, best of all, there's Grits (Bjorn Starrin), a constantly high drug dealer obsessed with A Clockwork Orange and amateur film-making who provides some of the funniest lines and actions of the entire film. If you like stoner comedies, film-buff parodies, or, as Malmros calls it, gangster comedies, you can't go much better than this film.
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warren
4.0 out of 5 stars silly and wacky and fun
Reviewed in the United States on 14 December 2018
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this is a wild and wacky journey thru and to madness, but it all makes sense (?) at the end. all is not what it seems except what is. it is brilliant and at the same time dumb as a rock and quickly changes at the blink of an eye. enjoy the madness because it's quite sane. enjoy
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b4tankgirl
5.0 out of 5 stars Best movie ever!
Reviewed in the United States on 9 January 2020
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Absolutely love this movie! Keeps you laughing from beginning to end.
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HollyGolightly
5.0 out of 5 stars Yay!
Reviewed in the United States on 13 October 2014
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Wonderful movie. Definitely for a younger adult crowd, but great.
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Carlsson
5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious!!
Reviewed in the United States on 16 December 2015
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This movie is extremely funny! I love the story line and all the characters!!
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robert opitz
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on 8 January 2015
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LTROI
1.0 out of 5 stars ???????
Reviewed in the United States on 8 July 2009
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When I started to watch the DVD, the first thing I did was watch the deleted scenes. After a few minutes, I was acutely aware that a lot of scenes had been deleted. So I proceeded to watch the movie proper. About 30 minutes later, I came to the conclusion that they should have deleted even more scenes. Perhaps all of the scenes?

I then stopped the DVD, removed it from my player, and put it back in the Netflix return envelope. I then went to the Netflix website and posted pretty much what I've written here.

Right now I'm thinking of a movie from the early 80s entitled "Student Bodies". It didn't make a lot of sense, but it was OK. At least it was amusing.

My take on "Slim Susie" is that, after 30 minutes, it didn't make a lot of sense either, but I didn't find it even remotely amusing.

It just isn't my idea of a good movie. Maybe it's yours?
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