Recently watched "Hjem" or Home as it would be called in English. It's a Danish movie about an immigrant family from Joguslavia and how their search for a brighter future in Denmark became a personal nightmare. It's semi biographical and based on experiences the director herself had as a little kid, moving to Denmark with her parents. It's okay. It is about important issues, but fails in a few areas because it wants to do too many things and ends up stumbling over itself.
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The story begins with an impossible dilemma of a financially struggling family that decides to move to Denmark where the father's sister lives. However, the sister cannot have the whole family living with her, so the parents decide to abandon their two older sons in Joguslavia and move to Denmark with their daughter, who's the youngest child.
The movie shows the first year of failed integration, where among other things, each parent agree to illegally marry two random Danes in order to get a quick and easy residence permit. However, the two Danes risk jailtime for agreeing to this activity, and therefore, the parents have to pay them 6000 DKK every month for their inconveniences which of course sets them back financially and makes it more difficult for them to get established in Denmark and bring their sons from Joguslavia.
The system is close to discovering the fraud at one point and it leads the fake Danish spouses to demand more money from the parents, which makes the family more desperate. They also experience getting fired because the daughter calls her brothers at the parents' work and racks up a 2000 DKK phone bill. Everything is just uphill all the time, until the dad decides to borrow money from his uncle and then everything is suddenly fine? The family moves into a ghetto apartment and bring the sons and from then on the only struggles for them is that the sons hates them an no longer wishes to speak to their parents.
But the Danish spouses are gone, the system is apparently fine with two illegal immigrants who both committed marriage fraud, living in an apartment together when it was established prior, that they were breathing down their necks for the smallest infractions, and apparently the parents have been able to get new jobs, I assume, despite struggling and not being able to get hired anywhere because they didn't speak Danish...?
It was very weird to get to that part of the movie. It wanted to focus on the emotional trauma of a divided family, but wrote itself into a corner by making the parents' integration so difficult and impossible, that the plot couldn't function in this worldbuilding. I also wonder why the father didn't ask the uncle for help sooner because there were no consequences to him loaning money despite the uncle acting shady and weird the whole movie and giving you the impression that to ask favors from him would mean you'd end up in crime. That was where I thought the story was heading for the dad, and then it just didn't because the movie wanted to focus on his regret later in life.