Citizens' vulnerability with reproduction and the state's responsiveness to vulnerability comes under investigation in season III of Bron/Broen (The Bridge) from 2015, a Nordic noir television serial that teams up two detectives, one Danish and one Swedish, to solve crimes that have impacted both countries and the cities of either Copenhagen or Malmö. The collaboration engages the greater metro area of the Øresund region, linked since July 2000 by the titular bridge, which the criminals and the police traverse at a dizzying pace. Written by Hans Rosenfeldt and co-created by Rosenfeldt, Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein, the Danish/Swedish co-production of The Bridge ran for four seasons from 2011 to 2018. 1 It quickly became a domestic and international success; by 2018, it had been aired in 188 countries and remade in other
This article examines domestic violence committed by white heterosexual men in a 2010s Norwegian film by a female director. This film stands out for its focus on male perpetrators, not female victims, contributing a fictional presentation of three men who struggle to meet societal norms for parents and partners in the Nordic gender-equal family of the twenty-first century. Eva Sørhaug’s use of cinematic space drills deep to probe the men’s pain, employing both the camera’s perspective and the significance of interiors of family homes to visually assess the male characters as they break. The socially constructed spaces of the kitchen and the bedroom augment tensions within the rigid confines of hegemonic masculinity and the men’s failure to attain those norms. The cinematic portrayal of intimate partner violence and homicide sheds light on male perpetrators and invokes societal culpability in the perpetuation of abuse.
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