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Persbrandt's Role In A Simple Life

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not around the role he played. Thomsen is most famous for the role Christian he played in the first Dogma film, The Celebration (1998), which made him well-known to the world. The main adult actor who played Anton, Mikael Persbrandt, was famous in Sweden. It was the success of In a Better World that brought him to the international stage. The reason why Bier chose Persbrandt to play the main role is that he a Swedish actor, which corresponds to Anton’s identity in the film. As he is famous in Sweden, the audience would recognize him, and make connection between his nationality and Anton’s. Similar to the effect of using real-world celebrities in the film industry in A Simple Life, the decision of choosing Persbrandt to play Anton also increases …show more content…

However, Roger discovers that Chung has taken care of him like a mother since he was born, and develops the close relationship step by step. Nevertheless, in Bier’s In a Better World, family members in the two families are supposed to have close kinship, especially between direct relatives. However, in Elias’s family, his father and mother are arguing for a divorce, and lacking in father’s companion, he had a tense relationship with his mother. In Christian’s family, the mother died from cancer, and Christian is angry with his father because he lied to him and promised his mom could get well soon. The conflicts between them are ambiguous at first, and then the emotion burst out with the development of the plot. Finally, the film ends with the recovery of harmonious kinship in these two families. Similar to Hui, Bier also takes the approach of using details to imply the plots. For example, when Claus are collecting the old photos, he paused when finding out a photo of his wife without her hair. Without saying a word, this scene delivers a message of the reason of the death of Christian’s mom to the audience. However, apart from filming details, Bier also exaggerates the conflicts by recording the furious fighting between Claus and Christian when Claus found Christian’s knife. Moreover, close-up shots are used to film Anton and Marianne’s communication on the phone in order to highlight their contradiction and sorrow. In addition, when Elias is injured by the bomb then set and Christian comes to visit him with guilt, Marianne cannot control her anger, and grabbed Christian’s neck, pushed him against the wall and shouted to

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