Furia

Well, with movie theaters closed we broke down and subscribed to Netflix. We've watched all sorts of series there, or started them at least. Then the German ZDF broadcast the series Furia that can be found in their Mediathek since the beginning of November 2021. It is not for children (minimum age 16) or the faint of heart, as there is a lot of brutality in it. There is a German-language Wikipedia article on it, I suppose I will have to translate it into English now. And of course the IMDB has an entry.

It is excellent.

And scary as hell, because I find the basic premise absolutely believable. Critics have puh-puhed it, saying it was too far over the top. It would cost a lot of money to pull off a stunt like the one running through all eight episodes, but cashing in a ton of stolen cryptocurrency could, indeed, provide the funding. And I find it perfectly plausable. My knitting got all out of shape on the last three episodes, which we watched on one evening, just finishing it.

Oh, and in the last episode, they use a school that is just down the road from us. Our son attended the neighboring kindergarten that is in one ariel shot. We didn't see them filming this, although there are often crews here. It must have been done recently, as we can tell by the state of the new buildings going up behind the school. Okay, they mix a lot of scenes from downtown and Kreuzberg and Westhafen into the story, making it look like they get somewhere in 3 minutes that you can't do in under 25 in the middle of the night. But that's just us with local knowledge.

We quite enjoyed hearing the film in the original Norwegian with German subtitles. Our only complaint was that ZDF would never remember that we wanted Norwegian, only subtitles. So for every single episode I had to go into the menu and change the language to Norwegian. Hey, ZDF, guess what? There are people in Germany who LIKE to listen to films in the original language, especially if it is a niche language!

I don't want to give too much of the plot away, but it is an extremist right-wing identitäre group that is looking to destabilize Europe. And of course, it ends with a cliff-hanger, so we have hope for a season 2.

Time flies

Goodness, seems that I only blogged once last year and not at all this year. Must catch up, as there have been things I want to record here. I just read my posting about my father's funeral, as a friend's father just died. And all sorts of memories came rushing back.

It's dinner time and I don't have much time to write, just a few things: The blue car is still going strong, there's a new grandson, and a much missed granddaughter. I have this semester and one more until I retire from teaching, but I hope to continue to teach my favorite classes, maybe one a semester.

Oh yes, and Corona. Funny I didn't write during these strange times. I need to get back to writing. We'll see if I can keep this up ;)