Glutton for punishment?

Learn Swedish with DVDs.

Remember I blogged on that awful Swedish spy film ‘The Democratic Terrorist’?

Well Miss P was in shock yesterday as I picked up a box set, its called Hamilton and is five or so films based on the books by the author Jan Guillou. Although it was shite, I do like spy films so I will give them a go and see if they are any better. Primarily the aim is to learn Swedish but in the Democratic Terrorist the main language was Deutsch!!

Hamilton is an interesting spy, in typical Swedish fashion he is a left and was recruited from the student Communist movement! No Jimmy Bond recruited in Cambridge here!

I also bought a box set, the first four movies of ‘Beck’.

Police Officer Beck

‘Beck is a divorced, middle-aged man while Larsson is young, forward and a quite violent man (against suspects that is). Together they make a perfect team, investigating crimes committed in Sweden, around Stockholm. The movies have a well written storyline, with diverse crimes, with no fear of showing brutal murders, horrible cases, or to go outside the Swedish border, making this series of movies great! Plot twists are only to be expected at the ending, making sure that everyone is kept in the dark of the outcome until the very end, which isn’t always that easy to accomplish.

The series of movies are well-known here for a couple of things; Gunvald Larsson’s short temper, and his great sarcastic lines! The neighbor of Beck, who always seem to be on sick-leave – wearing a lovely neck-collar, and who always is willing to give Beck some alcohol. And last but not least; the great actors! Peter Haber and Mikael Persbrandt are brilliant in their interpretations of Beck and Larsson’ according to IMDB

Its set in Stockholm so will be nice to see the city on film.

I also bought…wait for it a Bamse dvd. Bamse is the Worlds Strongest Bear. A kids comic from years ago which was made for tv as well. I actually get to learn some good new words with Bamse but there is always a moral at the end of the story and Swedish social values are prevalent through out!