2024-02-02 01:44:07
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What would happen if we maintained, all day every day, a slight level of alcohol in our blood? Would it help us endure life better? Would it make us more productive? The premise of this Netflix movie begins with this question that seems like the formula for chaos.
By: Chronicle
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Among the wide variety of options offered by the largest streaming platform in the world, there are some productions that stand out for having had a great critical reception and sweeping the awards season.
When it is a great production that was born outside the limits of Hollywood, its success draws even more attention, because it is an indicator that its quality surpassed the inbred logic of the awards circuit.
This hidden gem within Netflix is an original creation from Denmark and is based on the “supposed” theory of Norwegian psychiatrist Finn Skårderud, which says that people are born with a blood alcohol level of 0.05% below normal .
Thomas Vinterberg, director of the film, takes this trigger to show how alcohol can influence people’s creativity, but it can also lead them to go through dark and dangerous places.
“Otra Ronda” (or “Druk” in its original language), also stars the renowned Mads Mikkelsen in the lead role, who plays one of the four secondary school teachers who, in order to overcome the monotony of their lives, They propose to test the psychiatrist’s hypothesis.
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