The Last Sentence (2012)

The Last Sentence: Directed by Jan Troell. With Jesper Christensen, Pernilla August, Ulla Skoog, Björn Granath. A story based on the life of journalist Torgny Segerstedt, who alerted the Swedish public to the threat of Fascism in the 1930s.

“Borrowed from a library, this movie was first watched by a friend. Because I had picked the movie because of its theme, I was, hence, tentative. The friend found the movie long and made too complicated with its English subtitles and u0026#39;ghostsu0026#39;. However, this is a friend who cannot sit and watch a movie… has to get up and u0026#39;do other thingsu0026#39; in u0026#39;the boring sectionsu0026#39;. Does not work with subtitles.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo, I began to watch it with some apprehension. Which swiftly disappeared. Perhaps because I am an activist/dissident in Canada (and I use such movies to ask myself and others, what makes us so naive about our failed democracies when we have stories like this in our history?), it was the subtitles of the dialogue that struck so true. And, being male, (my friend is female) I could relate with the manu0026#39;s inner turmoil. Making the ghosts of three important women in the main characteru0026#39;s life becomes an effective tool for exposing this manu0026#39;s conscience. It is also good to follow up the movie with the extras provided with the DVD.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is a movie I would buy for my collection of u0026#39;movies for reflectionu0026#39; on human behaviour that becomes sad ignorance of situations like this… where governments push down the truth. Sweden might use the excuse that they had to do what they had to do to suppress this man and his defence of freedom of speech. This movie simply emphasizes that we have no excuse.”