kay pollak 2004 heart warmer så som i himmelen or a it be in heaven contains every stereotype of swedish humanity and inhumanity yet manage to be a crowd pleaser . it contain plenty of ammunition for cynical critic and continuity error spotter and for saccharine debunkers and yet manages to depict the colour of life in a small community evocatively . the film also run the gamut of proverbial message about find one own voice and just do it despite one fear and without completely remove the lump from the throat of the cynic . it success a a crowd pleaser come from two fact . firstly and small film about stranger bring new life to rural christian community provide plenty of scope for the exposure of hypocrisy while at the same time allow repressed character to break out of their hairshirts . the same year and with a similarly swedish breeze and the queen of sheba pearl do it and and babette feast also come to mind . secondly and any film about small community take on the whole wide world will strike a human chord in our increasingly individual or self focus and impersonalized world . this film structural similarity with the like of the full monty and brassed off and calendar girl and on a clear day show it indebtedness to the formula . but it be a formula with life leave in it yet and and this seem to be because people need positive message film that evoke a sense of community almost in spite of themselves . the stranger be burn out maestro daniel daréus on a quest for self rediscovery . the town he visit and or rather revisits and be and unbeknownst to the townsfolk and the place of his childhood . he be bully mercilessly by classmate here and supposedly because he be a sensitive musician without aspiration to drive a truck . here and he take the job of cantor or choirmaster and despite the usual suspicion of artist and outsider . the place be and of course and populate by a wide range of recognizable type whose character arc can be predict represent the broken hearted and fair haired girl so beautiful she nearly glow while the cellphone ring local businessman while the woman whose beauty be lose amidst domestic abuse while the steely pastor and his less austere wife and who at first seem right out of ingmar bergman . also present represent jealous and uptight spinster ( siv ) ( check ) while geriatric whose soul still sings ( check ) while elderly couple who may have repress desire for each other since kindergarten ( check ) while obese person whose function be to point out we should not laugh and say fatty ( check ) while intellectually handicap boy who prove able to sing a good a ( check ) . pollak film be not all warm fuzzies and however . it divert from the let put on a show despite setback and moral opposition sub genre . it contain violence and an end that might well be a metaphor for die after achieve creative nirvana . the violence of the film be mostly a function of male anger and repression and but in never delve deeply into why the school bully who grow up into a wife beater be like this . similarly and the small town pastor so closely adhere to the moralistic and black wear super protestant stereotype and that his secret indulgence in girlie magazine be hardly surprising . his repression and hypocrisy be just there and dangle unrelated to psychological reality . perhaps the unexplained photograph of a young boy and a lost son perhaps and glimpse once over his shoulder and hold the secret . perhaps these hole be function of the editing and like several inconsistency and continuity glitch that can be spot and such a siv unexplained reappearance in the choir ( twice ) after moralistic outburst . in fact none of the hitch in the film last very long and all seem resolve within a scene . apart from in some awkward love scene and the film 127 minute seldom drag and but there be a feeling that thing may have be leave on the cutting room floor . the film remain solid three star fare despite the hole that can be pick in it . this be simply because in a world of technology focus flick and materialistic self seek and any glimpse of human community be and deep down and welcome for anyone and even the cynical .