
"Oh my god, I'm sure that's Danny Saucedo", I thought to myself as I watched the SBS-2 screening of the Swedish film "Ondskan" ("Evil"). A bit of Googling and the IMDB indeed confirmed he was an uncredited "bully" in the film. The scene in which he appears, which is about a third of the way into the film, portrays ritualistic bullying in a Swedish private school in the 1950s. At the heart of the film is the character of Erik Ponti, who lives with violence both at school and at home, where he is also beaten by his step-father. Arriving at the private school at the age of fourteen … [Read more...]
