I'm very sure that I'm not the only Death- / Black Metal fan, in particular fans of Swedish DM-band Dissection", who came to see this film with the wrong expectations and left thoroughly disappointed.
This is a film about a "closet-homosexual" who falls in love with a flamboyant foreigner and finds himself as potential suspect when his lover is murdered. The murder, a mere fragment of the film, is seemingly placed there to give the movie the air of "based on a true story".
In 1997 Jon Nödveidt, founder of "Dissection", rising star and one of the most charismatic performers of the Swedish Death Metal scene, was convicted of being an accessory in the murder of a homosexual immigrant and sentenced to ten years in jail. His involvement in the ultra-Satanic organisation MLO (Misanthropic Luciferian Order), eventual release from prison, reunion with "Dissection" and suicide in 2006 (mere month after the release of "Keillers Park", although I doubt that both events are related) made sure that Nödveidt remains an icon of this scene.
Instead of Jons story, the short murder sequence is rather poorly executed: the unnamed killers are portrayed as your stereotypical 'air-headed' Metal fans (to mind come Jay and Silent Bob from the "Clerks"-movies) who's motivation for the deed goes no further than the mumbling of pseudo-Satanic citations.
There have been a number of films with homoerotic themes that were able to captivate the interest of a heterosexual viewer – to mention "Brokeback Mountain" as an example – but these films are few and far in-between. "Keillers Park" doesn't belong to this category. Whether the basic coming-out-of-the-closet storyline captivates the intended audience I cannot tell – me personally, it left only with a sentiment of indifference.
I cannot speak for the people who came to watch a "coming out of the closet"-movie with a crime-angle – however, if you came because you've expected a film about Jon Nödveidt and his crimes, you'll most likely miss the point and leave as disappointed as I did.
This is a film about a "closet-homosexual" who falls in love with a flamboyant foreigner and finds himself as potential suspect when his lover is murdered. The murder, a mere fragment of the film, is seemingly placed there to give the movie the air of "based on a true story".
In 1997 Jon Nödveidt, founder of "Dissection", rising star and one of the most charismatic performers of the Swedish Death Metal scene, was convicted of being an accessory in the murder of a homosexual immigrant and sentenced to ten years in jail. His involvement in the ultra-Satanic organisation MLO (Misanthropic Luciferian Order), eventual release from prison, reunion with "Dissection" and suicide in 2006 (mere month after the release of "Keillers Park", although I doubt that both events are related) made sure that Nödveidt remains an icon of this scene.
Instead of Jons story, the short murder sequence is rather poorly executed: the unnamed killers are portrayed as your stereotypical 'air-headed' Metal fans (to mind come Jay and Silent Bob from the "Clerks"-movies) who's motivation for the deed goes no further than the mumbling of pseudo-Satanic citations.
There have been a number of films with homoerotic themes that were able to captivate the interest of a heterosexual viewer – to mention "Brokeback Mountain" as an example – but these films are few and far in-between. "Keillers Park" doesn't belong to this category. Whether the basic coming-out-of-the-closet storyline captivates the intended audience I cannot tell – me personally, it left only with a sentiment of indifference.
I cannot speak for the people who came to watch a "coming out of the closet"-movie with a crime-angle – however, if you came because you've expected a film about Jon Nödveidt and his crimes, you'll most likely miss the point and leave as disappointed as I did.