King of Devil's Island
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, extreme drama / action, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, determined to escape from the island. After a tragic incident, he ends up leading the boys in a violent uprising. When the boys manage to take over the island, 150 soldiers are sent in to restore order.
Our read · King of Devil's Island (2010) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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