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Excellent adaptation.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

From it's very first moments the movie captures attention with its amazing atmosphere, calm language, natural acting, and very thoughtful, methodical storytelling.The story develops slowly, but once it starts to unfold in full, you get the grasp of how much thought and detail was put into it.An unique experience that has it all beautifully woven together: the atmosphere, sublime effortless acting, a bit of mystery and horror, but primarily an interesting story surrounding a coming-of-age woman who has to realize what she is and find a way to live with that.

The film was excellent but they seriously need a seizure warning somewhere.

Well, I certainly didn't have an intention to watch this film as it looked like a horror/erotic movie from description and trailers, but in the end the positive reviews won, and so, I must admit that it hasn't been in vain. The photography is awesome and storytelling is good, although I feel there was a vast space needing to be filled with more substance but instead the film's tended toward more mystery, and less toward casting light over the right questions. The most profound thing for me were the parents' actions. The comparison to other cases in the past wrongfully labeled or the insight to the epilepsy or epilepsy-like symptoms were a great parallel and insights in the others' struggles. It totally gives another perspective in the matter. This movie is the reason why I'm watching everything I can get my hands on next from the director Trier. (I saw that he's related to the big Lars). Maybe it's not fair to make comparisons between both, but I felt a lot of similar energy to this product, as with other works of Lars.

"Thelma" has been called a Norwegian "Carrie" but Joachim Trier's film is a lot less showy than De Palma's shock-fest. Thelma is a young girl from a strict Christian family who develops a strong sexual attraction to another girl she meets at university while at the same time discovering she has telekenetic powers and the apparent ability to make people disappear. Unlike the De Palma picture, which was fundamentally a frightfest pure and simple, this wavers uneasily between realism and the fantastic, never staying long enough in one place for us to get a handle on Thelma or her predicament. Bizarrely the film it reminded me of most wasn't so much "Carrie" as Dryer's "Ordet" or even "Breaking the Waves" but unfortunately Trier's heroine doesn't have enough meat on her bones to be properly compared with these classics. Interesting but not much more.