The film is a suffocatingly middle class take on class conflict. Very soppy and pettily bourgeois. Politics doesn't really exict, love triangles are the only thing that matters (smh).
The supposed radical activist crumbles at first signs of pressure and is depicted as some kind of edgy attention-seeking high school student, Effy-Stonem-is-into-politics-now, wow!
The most harrowing story is, apparently, one of an inconsolable widow of a cop, boo-hoo, MORE violins to the soundtrack!
And also, it looks like an old communist is not that different from a narrow-minded middle class policeman's wife because all he really cares about is clinging onto a woman, any woman. And if it doesn't happen he's fine with betraying his ideals and comrades.
The whole movie is one big facepalm. The ending credits music almost had me laughing cos' I recently rewatched a cult Spanish teen drama Three Steps Above Heaven and it ended with the exact same type of score - an indie pop song in English with some sOuLfUL female vocals. I mean, it's ridiculous! For a ~somewhat~ crime drama to have THAT as a soundtrack!
Anyway, you want to watch something Danish about political activists and their personal dilemmas, watch Blekingegade (The Left Wing Gang) instead. The story is based on true events, and although VERY similar in parts, it's told from a different angle, in a much more compelling way.
