White Trash (Vit skräp)

 

White Trash (Vit skräp) 2021

• Director: Tobias Nordquist
• Based on novel: no
• Cast: Ola Rapace, Ida Engvoll, Dakota Trancher Williams
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in
• Ola Rapace – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Skyfall, Arés, Svinalängorna, Tusenbröder
• Ida Envoll – En man som heter Ove, Bron
• Why? Ola Rapace
• Seen: 13 August 2024 

Sami (Rapace) is a minor, mostly failed, gangster in the 80s, who finds himself in a small town in central Sweden. The local mafia lord takes him on.

I don’t like this kind of film generally but some reviewers compare it to Tarantino, others claim it’s less an action film than a study in social misery, and I like Rapace.

The ratings range from 1* - 10*.

Sami has nightmares about his father’s violent abuse and Kim (Engvoll) wants her son back. So that’s the social misery part. That gives it one of the *s. The other star is because Rapace is good-looking and a decent actor.

Otherwise it’s violent, boring, meaningless, flat and macho. 

2* of 5