THE SNOWMAN (2017)—Alcoholism Saves the Day

Cinema of Cruelty (Movies for Masochists)

On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists Present Tomas Alfredson’s The Snowman (2017). This highly anticipated Nordic noir notoriously still hit theaters after only filming about 85% of its script. Would the last minute recruitment of one of the most prolific editors in Hollywood be enough to pull a cohesive narrative together from the rubble of unfinished scraps? London and Benji set forth to find out. Other episode topics include: comparisons with the film’s original novel source material, “The Nordic Paradox” of Scandinavian domestic violence, and the art history of those creepy naked baby statues in Oslo’s Vigeland Park. Episode Safeword: “sunlight”