The past

year has given moviegoers a generous batch of troubled girls who screw up relationships, lose control and feel sorry for themselves.

As in "The year I stopped performing and started masturbating", "Out of track" and "Maya Nilo (Laura)".

They have a rough streak of

self-pity

.

The chaos inside them is other people's fault, they are surrounded by egoists or bores.


Maybe that's enough of such characters now?



In Andreas Öhman's film, her name is Lisa (Karin Franz Körlof).

She is a successful cartoonist, has a relationship with her publisher and struggles with the title of her first comic album.

In the middle of this, the parents call and say that Lisa, her weak-willed brother and her bitter What-is-this-all? sister, must come home to Kramfor's bums.

Dad has begun to think about death and wonders which of the children can imagine moving back home and taking care of the forest?



Homecoming movies

are often predictable.

Not this one.

Not least because Lisa is so grumpy and stubborn.

She bullies people in her comic strips and spoils good moods with her swear words and sex.



As an audience, we eventually get a little explanation.

The family has experienced a great tragedy for which Lisa took the blame.

That feeling has grown into a darkness within her.

A main character

doesn't have to be likable, but you have to understand him to care, there should be redeeming features.

With the self-pitying Lisa, it takes a long time before we get a glimpse of her inner self.

But once we get it, both she and the rest of the family are given new life and greater depth.

They would have liked to stay there for a while.



Andreas Öhman (director and screenplay) showed originality with the debut "I rymden finn ingga köpler" and "One day will all this be yours" also has a peculiar narrative language and dramaturgy.

For example, various objects take on a life of their own to show how Lisa sees her entire world through her cartoonist filter.



Finest is

the symbolism of the forest that no one wants to take care of;

which stands for a desire for everything to remain as it was.

Therein lies a melancholy that could have touched far more than self-pity and comic book bullying do.