The incredible real life story of Sture Bergwall who changed his name to Thomas Quick and who manipulated everyone into believing he was the worst serial killer in swedish history. His reason for doing so was to get attention but most of all the fact that he was given the drugs he wanted.
This is the best example of how psychiatrists and psychologists are completely lost in their work and rely on theories that never withstand the test of time and how easy it is to manipulate them and play the fool to tickle their gigantic ego based on anything but science.
This is easily one of the best swedish movies I have ever seen when it comes to how they stay true to every detail and for someone like me who has followed this case since the early 90's it was truly amazing to be able to watch this movie. Director Mikael Håfström has really found the right tone and vibe for this movie that lifts the telling of the story even further.
A cast of some of the best swedish actors around and not least Jonas Karlsson, probably my fave swedish male actor, playing the incredibly talented journalist Hannes Råstam whose investigating journalism and documentaries always caught my eye. He sadly died from pancreas cancer in 2012 and in this movie we follow his personal life while trying to understand the man Thomas Quick by contacting him at the psych unit in Säter.
David Dencik who plays Thomas Quick or Sture Bergwall once again outdoes himself after many great acting performances not least in the old crime drama "The Laser Man". To nail the man Quick/Bergwall like he does in this one truly shows what an acting genius the man is.
Pernilla August's daughter Alba August plays Hannes Råstam's assistant and researcher who found herself working for a man completely dedicated to his work.
This is as close to the cuckoo's nest in real life you can come with lawyers and prosecutors and psychologists and psychiatrists all involved in the biggest juridicial scandal in swedish history. The way they tried to create a swedish Jeffrey Dahmer to get attention and personal success and admiration from it is truly sickening.
Bergwall/Quick called himself Ellington when he became another person talking about the children he claimed to have killed including a dutch couple and a man from Israel. The fact that he claimed this and was backed up as he was meant the real killers of those people were never found which included murders in Norway.
"You've been locked up in here since Gorbachev was president and Kurt Cobain was still alive" Råstam says to Bergwall/Quick on his first visit to the psych unit in Säter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sture_Bergwall
No english subs:
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https://swefilmer.to/movies/the-perfect-patient/
Trailer without subs:
From the documentary about the scandal showing Bergwall/Quick taken to the sight of one murder he claimed to be behind where he loses it and acts out high on drugs but also knowing what the staff demanded of him for him to get more drugs.