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I have a fundamental problem with Eternal Summer - let's say of an ethical nature. A part of the genre cinema tends to depict morally doubtful heroes as fighters against an unjust system or romanticize them. When I look back at the havoc that Isak and Em left behind, I must strongly reject the director's effort to trivialize and justify their actions. Two outsiders, who suffer from a sense of misunderstanding from their surroundings, decide to try the role of desperados, and someone else understandably has to pay the highest price for their entertainment. Go to hell with that fake romanticism of lovers. Isak is an irresponsible, easily manipulated weakling, and the revengeful Em has significantly sociopathic character deformations. The middle finger, which the screenwriter and director send toward the police, and by extension the entire state apparatus, in the final scene, is downright disgusting. If what the pseudo-psychologizing flashbacks show should be the trigger for the successful duo's actions, then settlements and cities on the whole planet would turn into endless slaughterhouses. Overall impression: 40%. (24.07.2022)

There is a certain naivety in the whole story, yet I quite enjoyed this lovey-dovey road movie. Maybe it's because I don't quite fit in with others either. And the romantic notion that all I have to do is meet my soulmate, with put all my worries behind me and set off on a journey through the beautiful Nordic countryside with him is incredibly intoxicating. Except I probably wouldn't have left such mayhem behind me like Isak and Em did. (75%) (29.08.2022)