“All I ever want to do is eat, sleep, and blow things up,” he recalls later in the movie
The 100-Year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is a Swedish film directed by Felix Herngen, based on the international bestseller novel written by Jonas Jonasson with the same name. Set as a fast paced film with a Forrest Gump-esque approach switching between the present and past of Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson). On his 100th birthday, just as the title says, he climbs out a window and disappeared. This film is an an intriguing, comical and eventful twist of world events. Based on a best selling-novel and the highest-grossing Swedish films of all time. The 100-Year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is one of my favorite films of all time.
I may not be a Hollywood film critic, but do take great appreciation in movies that are ‘out of the box’ when a majority of the film industry is conformed to a certain idea of how viewers want to see it. HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Prime, you …show more content…
Director Henren touches many historical events that lead to death of millions, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The Cold War, Spanish Civil War, a mental hospital and a gulag. Some viewers may find this offensive, but with any movie, some may not the comedic aspect. Allan has a larger than life story, through the flashbacks of his life beginning with his love to blow things up. Through a string of events Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain befriends Allan after saving his life, helps create the atomic bomb with Oppenheimer in the Manhattan project and gets drunk with Vice President Truman, encounters Stalin, escapes from a gulag with Herbert Einstein (Albert Einstein not so intelligent twin brother) and an interview with President Ronald Reagan. This movie uses an ‘out of the box’ approach a man’s life in this present and
The 100-Year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is a Swedish film directed by Felix Herngen, based on the international bestseller novel written by Jonas Jonasson with the same name. Set as a fast paced film with a Forrest Gump-esque approach switching between the present and past of Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson). On his 100th birthday, just as the title says, he climbs out a window and disappeared. This film is an an intriguing, comical and eventful twist of world events. Based on a best selling-novel and the highest-grossing Swedish films of all time. The 100-Year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is one of my favorite films of all time.
I may not be a Hollywood film critic, but do take great appreciation in movies that are ‘out of the box’ when a majority of the film industry is conformed to a certain idea of how viewers want to see it. HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Prime, you …show more content…
Director Henren touches many historical events that lead to death of millions, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The Cold War, Spanish Civil War, a mental hospital and a gulag. Some viewers may find this offensive, but with any movie, some may not the comedic aspect. Allan has a larger than life story, through the flashbacks of his life beginning with his love to blow things up. Through a string of events Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain befriends Allan after saving his life, helps create the atomic bomb with Oppenheimer in the Manhattan project and gets drunk with Vice President Truman, encounters Stalin, escapes from a gulag with Herbert Einstein (Albert Einstein not so intelligent twin brother) and an interview with President Ronald Reagan. This movie uses an ‘out of the box’ approach a man’s life in this present and