Moin-Moin Svensson and Kant,
i know this topic is allready a few weeks old, but it is dealing with an interesting question- so i'm gonna aswer to it anyway. i hope you will read it.
My first impression about Fucking Amal:
i remember, i was sitting in my room on a late evening, feeling a little bored, not tired enough to go to bed, not fit anymore to do something serious- something in between, you know? so i took a look at the tv-guide and read: (i don't remember exacty, but something sounding like this:) "Raus aus Amal, swedish teenage comedy aboud two girls, growing up in small boring town somewhere in middle of nowhere (...)"
so i expected a rather simple teenager-comedy-movie (perhaps a bit like "schule" ,i thought) so a good and easy film for that evening.
I switched on the tv a little to late, so i missed the first scene (Agnes typing her secret wish list). that means, i didn't know that Agnes is in love with Elin. the first scenes i saw, was Elin having an argument with Jessica (about chacolate). this scene fits to the image of teen-movie i had from the tv-guide. But i liked the character of Elin, her behavior, her situation (living in Amal). A lot of teenager know the feeling of living in small fucked up village, without rave-parties, without anything exiting. From that point i loved the movie.
well, i can't tell what i felt in every single scene.
anyway, when i saw the end,got this kind of feeling, which is hard to explean; let's call it "the FA-feeling"
at the same evening, i was talking for an hour about it with i friend who saw it too. but then, after the first euphoria i almost forgot about it, untill i watched it again a few weeks ago. (that's why i joined the forum.)
btw. i also though something evil would happen, when these to girls try to hitch a ride on the bridge. i though: "they will never reach stockholm... because of the saab-driver
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now i'd like to talk about something that has only indirectly to do with your question, but it just came to my mind:
as i wrote above, i missed the first scene and didn't know that Agnes loves Elin. today, after having seen several times, i wish i could turm back time. because from my today's point of view it would offer a different perspective of Fucking Amal if you don't know it. imagine: you would wonder why agnes writes elin's name on her school-execise-book. it will be clear when you read her diary again later on ("why do i love elin...she hurts me, but i love her...).
another interesting point: imagine, it would be victoria (the girl with the wheelchair) who tells you that agnes is lesbian...!
it would be a different feeling, a different perspective while watching the first 30 min. of the film.
anyway, these are just some ideas that came to my mind. i can't turn back time.
i wish a nice weekend to all of you
yours Hans