{"id":19843,"date":"2020-01-07T11:07:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T16:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=19843"},"modified":"2020-01-07T11:28:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T16:28:59","slug":"solo-narratives-1-the-guilty-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=19843","title":{"rendered":"Solo Narratives 1: The Guilty \/ Den skyldige (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good filmmakers thrive when there&#8217;s a challenge, whether it&#8217;s due to tight budgets or novel creative choices, and <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=19842\"><strong>The Guilty<\/strong> \/\u00a0<strong>Den skyldige<\/strong><\/a> (2018) is a fine example of stripping down a hostage drama to one person, seated at a desk, and watching him tackle the waves of tension from the aggrieved caller, his co-workers, and the slowly emerging details of his own personal drama which will, in less than 24 hours, decide his own fate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19868\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Guilty_2018_poster_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Guilty_2018_poster_m.jpg 350w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Guilty_2018_poster_m-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Locke<\/strong> (2013), a film I&#8217;ll cover at a later date, dealt with a similar construction where a character is onscreen 99% of the time, talking on the phone to various important people in his life as his career, marriage, and future are simultaneously crumbling and potentially reformulating into something very different, but <strong>The Guilty<\/strong> offers a tighter format because there are no cutaways to roads, passing cars, or materials within a car; Danish actor\u00a0Jakob Cedergren has to carry the whole film, and moderate his performance to ensure at least two of the big events hit audiences with a bang.<\/p>\n<p>Gustav M\u00f6ller\u2019s direction is respectful of performance, pacing, and technique, and it&#8217;s a near-perfect film that delivers a full arc without cliches.\u00a0Magnolia&#8217;s release is bare bones &#8211; a pity &#8211; but <strong>The Guilty<\/strong> is another example of the superb, intimate dramas that keep emerging from Scandinavian countries.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of the tense, single-person narrative THE GUILTY \/ DEN SKYLDIGE (2018) from Magnolia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[6354,2562,2563,6353,2267,6352],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Guilty2018_featured.jpeg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-5a3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19843"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19874,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19843\/revisions\/19874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}