'The Guilty': Gustav Möller weaves an aural movie experience to understand human hubris
It's a rare film that manages to keep its audience on the edge of their seats by telling them a story through a single location.
Either a single-location movie turns out to be just a cheap low-budget gimmick or bores the audience to death due to its lack of storytelling. Fortunately, Gustav Möller's Danish film, 'The Guilty' set to release in the US on October 19, is both compelling in its storytelling and a masterpiece in its construction.
This minimalist thriller exhibits the daily life of a police officer, Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren), who - now demoted to desk work - comes across several apparent calls-for-help on a regular day at work.
Holm finds himself responding to calls from people who don't seem to have their heads in the right place - people who think they might die after dosing themselves with drugs, callers who do not mind calling the cops maybe for even chasing a rat out of their house, and of course, the bullies who have the least regard for anyone. However, Holm sits on it all and does his work, but things begin to take an unusual turn when he receives a call from a woman.
