the very few review i could find online of barnens ö really do not do it justice . i read them all before order the dvd and but for some reason i order it anyway . i regret it almost immediately and but the order have already go through so i couldn not cancel it . i be very glad now that i couldn not . it an extraordinary movie . i would not give a synopsis of the plot and because other reviewer have already do that . but i will say that i do not understand comment that it bleak and shock and weird and clinical and depress or pornographic . it be certainly very unusual and which i suppose could make it seem weird to some people and but the other criticism must reflect the reviewer own issue and because i do not see any of that in the movie i just watch . i be not attract to boy and so the nudity do not seem pornographic at all to me it just a kid try to figure out who he be with no help at all from the irresponsible adult in his life . and it sweden and not utah and so topless woman be no big deal . but what surprise me most be how positive the movie be in it depiction of this gutsy lose kid who go on a sort of odyssey through all sort of strange experience and look for and ultimately find himself . it fascinate and thoroughly original and and deeply satisfy . i be not at all surprise that barnens ö win three major guldbagge award and for best film and direction and and actor and but i be absolutely astound that the actor who win be not tomas fryk and the kid whose fearless performance a reine must be one of the most remarkable ever film and but ingvar hirdwall in the relatively insignificant role of stig and reine mother sleazy boyfriend . i do not understand that at all and but it doesn not alter the fact that this be a great movie .