A gay couple apply to adopt a child...through a bureaucratic mix-up instead of a 1 year old they end up with a homophobic, angry teenager.
From the opening moments it seemed obvious where this was going but the filmmaker inserted enough surprises to keep the audience off guard, wondering how it would resolve. Very smart decision to focus on one character...the sensitive, kindly guy...and show the turbulent story from his perspective. Some of the conflicts were cartoonish but I was willing to forgive because of the overall high quality of the film.
The apparently rampart homophobia was surprising in light of our sense of Sweden as an enlightened, liberal culture. Plus the residential (gated?) community where these guys lived looked a lot like either a disney town or the burb in Edward Scissorhands.
5
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