Adolescent male cruelty and stupidity are at the black heart of this story of musical image-making gone awry the result is death, church-burning, and gleeful cat-torturing. When Euronymous (Rory Culkin) becomes competitive with the posing, nervous Varg (Emory Cohen), danger is imminent.Īs this gang of asshole teenagers thrash and headbang their way into a litany of gruesome behavior, Åkerlund regards them with both mild detachment and fully fleshed-out detail. There are reams of ink-black hair and mottled white face paint, double denim, knives plunging into wrists, and stage lights strobing as lead singer Dead (Jack Kilmer) tosses severed pigs’ heads to his audience. Unsurprisingly, this gives the film fertile aesthetic grounding. The marriage of director to material is ideal, given Åkerlund’s own membership in a Swedish death metal band as a youth and his decades of experience in the music world. The Big Screen: Birds of Passage By Manu Yáñez Murillo
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