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 King's Game (DVD)
Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 2004 / Director: Nikolaj Arcel / Actors: Anders W. Berthelsen, Soren Pilmark ... / ... more  King's Game (DVD) ... DVD released 05 December, 2005 at Warner Music Vision / Features of the DVD: PAL, WidescreenNewest Review: ... it? Why is he, a new reporter with no built up contacts in the political elite, being passed this information? King’s Game ... more ... concentrates fully on politics and journalism, the way they interact and how the search for ‘power’ in their respective jobs leads to them diluting their ideals and concentrate on keeping what they have instead of doing what is best for their readers/countrymen. Their idealism replaced by a world-weary ‘this is the way it happens’ attitude and the desire to hold onto their jobs. While this keeps the film extremely watchable what it does leave out is any kind of insight into the characters. We learn next to nothi...more |
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King's Game (DVD): A Danish film about Pawn(s) (782 words)
by Ailran - written on 27.08.07 (Very useful, 166 readings)
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Crash, bang – a truck slams into the side of a limousine, an accidental collision that leaves the current leader of the Centre Party, and soon to be landslide winner of Denmark’s general election in a coma, and starts of a complex story of political intrigue, journalistic integrity and spin doctoring. It pulls you in with such deceptive ease that you are caught up in the machinations that are occurring before you realise it, watching as Torp, the new reporter and star of the film, unravels the web of lies and deceit that are dropped in his lap. King’s Game follows Torp, a newish reporter, as he joins the political section of his paper and begins investigating ...
