the green butcher ( anders thomas jensen denmark 2003 ) . how do the dane keep come up with these film that be consistently funny and sharply write and exquisitely film and fill with great performance . the green butcher be a dark and wickedly funny comedy and in many way the danish counterpart of eat raoul and delicatessen and but it have more on offer than just laugh or parody . the film bring u the duo of chronic pothead bjarne ( nikolaj lie kaas ) and chronic perspirer svend ( mads mikkelsen ) . sick of their evil bos and the two pal decide to open their own butcher shop in a small danish town and but initially business be slow and customer stay away . when an electrician be accidentally lock up and freeze in their meat locker and svend decides to turn the man thigh into fillet he promptly nickname chickie wickies . this special dish suddenly have everyone in town flocking to their counter and svend unable to resist this sudden leap into popularity turn into a serial killer with bjarne act a his reluctant accomplice . but soon and lead by their ex bos and many people in town be start to wonder what special ingredients the two men be use . without the extraordinary performance by kaas and mikkelsen and the film might not have rise above the level of the average black comedy . on paper and the character of svend might border on caricature but mads mikkelsen portrait be that of an earnest and insecure and deeply twisted man and but mikkelsen manages to make him frighten and funny and move at the same time . kaas actually play a double role and also play his comatose twin brother eigil . when watch the film and i never even realize it be the same actor . the other performance be just a wonderful with every character in town refreshingly off the hook with some truly wonderful vignette . the subject material be naturally a bit morbid and the material might not be completely fresh and consider quite a few predecessor that handle the same kind of material and but director jensen give it a fresh twist and manage to build some real character with the strange duo of svend and bjarne and with this wonderfully bizarre tale of two social misfit . camera obscura positive .