These bullies were completely unaware that the new transfer student was a brutal fighter

I grew up in a small town. Because I was (at the time) small for my age and my family attended the "wrong" church I was bullied relentlessly. I turned the other cheek for (9) years until the day I fought back. The leader of the 'Bully Squad' sat in front of me in health class. He loved to lift the front of my desk up and dump me out of it. One day I had enough. I stood up, confronted him and labeled him with a roundhouse that knocked him cold. I was almost expelled from school but a lot of students said that they had watched the kid torment me since First Grade and wondered when I would finally hit back. It's needless to say that the bullying stopped--completely. Cost me a dislocated knuckle and a cracked wrist but justice was done. I might add that I understand why some kids bring a gun to school; the thought occured to me a couple of times. I was reminded of it some years later when a kid in a town that I eventually settled down in, about 50 miles away, brought a gun to school and shot and killed the bully. He served his complete sentence because every parole hearing he said that he had no remorse other than he didn't do it soon enough, and the only regrets he had was the pain that the bully's family had to go through...

Their reaction to dirt makes me think it’s not dirt lol

“Then Erik kicked him out of the house”. 😂
What Erik did was to turn the tables. He beat the living shit out of his stepdad after a lifetime on the receiving end.

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This is a Swedish movie from 2003, and one of the best I’ve seen. Good recap. But in the end, Erik went in to the room with his stepdad and beat the living shit out of him. 🇸🇪🇳🇴

The bully who I dealt with repeatedly in high school picked one fight too many with me and one day when he slammed a basketball in my face, I waited until he turned his back and made a running leap and hit him with a left hook so hard I nearly broke my hand. He beat the living hell out of me and knocked me out, but he got into trouble for it and never laid a hand on me again. He finally found someone who hit back... I never would talk to him through the years and he died recently. While all of his friends sat around lauding what a great guy he was, I remembered all the people he beat up with the school principals covering for him. His soul can rot in hell. I am satisfied knowing I gave that SOB a nearly broken jaw for his unending reign of terror - It was worth the beating I took. People started to not pick fights with me after that incident, although one more fight happened where I took one more bully out and after that, I had the most peaceful year of high school ever. I was glad to escape that hell hole when I graduated.

I was bullied mercilessly at school. Once I was beaten to the point of needing a 2 week hospital stay. To the day she died my mother believed my injuries were due to the sport's field. There was no way I was going to report the bullies; this would only result in far worse reprisals.
My principal bully was well off, better off than his peers who, like myself, came from working class families. It used to baffle me as to why this kid who had everything was only happy when he was beating the snot out of me. Years later I met his sister in a shopping center and she told me he was in prison. Apparently he did an armed robbery, this kid who had everything.

I was bullied by a gang of 5 in high school. The ringleader was the star of the basketball team, and could do no wrong.
So I graduated and later attended our 25th class reunion. I was dreading that the gang would show up again and p;pick up where they left off. One of the girls (now a young woman with family) in my class took me aside and gave an update. After graduation, one of the bullies disappeared, never to be seen again. Three others were dead before they turned 21 years old. The ringleader sat in his mother's basement, unemployed and unemployable, with numerous violent felonies on his record. The state law enforcement promised him the next felony he committed, he would be in prison until the day he died.

My father went to high school in the '70s. When he was a freshman, there was another kid who had failed several grades. He was basically a senior+ with the freshman. He would bully many people and had been doing so for years. He could get away with it because he was basically an adult man amongst teenagers. One day he beat up one of my dad's friends before school, so my dad went to the pull-up bars, slid one of the bars out (it was designed so that the height could be changed), and hit the bully in the back of the knees with the iron bar, dropping him to the ground. The bully turned his head and said my dad was a dead man when he got up. My dad raised the iron bar over his head and said, "You're not getting up, you son of a bitch." Luckily for me (lol), one of the coaches had seen what was going on and rushed over to grab the iron bar out of my dad's hands before he could kill the bully.
Later, the entire varsity football team heard the story, and they all beat the crap out of the bully with promise of more retribution if he bullied anyone else again (my dad was on the JV team at the time and was friends with a lot of the older players). The bully quit school and was never seen by my dad again.

As the school season began I watched our school bully harass and harm my mates over the first few days. Knowing eventually he would come at me. I was prepared mentally for it so when it indeed happened I immediately challenged him to an after hours meeting to settle our differences. He of course accepted. We met. He lost and lost quickly with a severe beating. It changed him completely and he not only never bothered me again, but ceased from bullying everyone. Every bully is a coward looking for someone to stop him. When you meet one, oblige him. My bully never bullied anyone else again. It's the only lesson they can learn from.

If you ever get bullied at school, the only way out of it is to stand up for yourself and hit back. Even if it means you lose the fight, you better go down swinging. Bullies will always think twice if they know you are going to put up a fight. No matter what, always go down swinging. Reputation is everything, guard it with your life.

The only way to deal properly with a bully is to hurt them to such an extent that they fear ever messing with you again. I threw my bully face first into a urinal and then later pinned him against the wall after he kept kicking the backs of my knees. My exact words were "What am I going to have to do to you to make you stop?". He never bullied me again.

The moral of the story, never let a woman give you advice about how to deal with other men.

To my surprise bullying was allowed and encouraged at most of the 11 public schools I attended, and, to my knowledge, still is. The irony is bullies are alway cowards.
I was warned that a bully terrorized the school as I was walking to school in 2nd grade. I listened to "the monster" and the things he did. We got to school, had class and then it was first recess. Second recess was after lunch. Anyway, I was speaking to the same kids when "the monster came along" and to me surprise he was a small little kid. He'd go up to one child and torment him, then another and another. No one fought back, and the teachers did nothing to stop him. I couldn't believe it. They told me once he reached us just put my head down and avoid his thrashing, instead I threw him to the ground and beat the crap out of him. There wasn't a thing he could do as I held him down with my left arm and beat him with my right. He was completely unable to fight back. Immediately the teachers, who had been watching, came out to rescue the "monster". I was hailed a hero by the other kids, but anyone could have done it. They were so terrified by what a "monster" he was they were afraid to do anything. I had no training at that time. We never saw him again, and I didn't get into trouble. This has been my experience with bullies again, and again.
Freshman year, first days at lunch I was sitting with a lot of other boys my age when a confident JV Football player challenged all the freshman boys to a fight one by one. He had girls with him and was showing off. The very last person he challenged happened to be me and I casually said, "sure". By then I had a lot of training in boxing, but he didn't know that. He did sense something was wrong and quickly said, "Only a slap fight" and I said sure. I just stuck a jab in his face and turned him to my left. He was slapped so much he became afraid to move his arms, and I quickly realized he had no experience with fighting. I kept my hands open and didn't hurt him, but made him think twice about pulling that crap again. His confidence was gone in his voice and body language.
After school while walking my dog and talking to my bro on the phone, some big old dude, at night said his place had been robbed and asked if I knew anything about it. I said I didn't. He said he thought I was lying and threatened to blow my brains out. This was not in school, and this was a grown up outside, and I was scared. My first thought was to run. He kept talking and again said that he was going to blow my brains out. I was frozen with fear. The third time he said it I dropped my phone, dropped my dogs leash and ran at him and shook him like a rag doll, swore at him and had planned to beat him but he didn't even try to fight back. He didn't even speak. Another coward. I threw him to the ground and told him to never threaten me again. He called the police on me, but, apparently, didn't tell them I had shook and thrown him to the ground after he threatened to "blow my brains out". They asked me if I knew anything about his stolen stuff. I told them I'd never stolen anything in my life and invited them to search my room. They declined and left me alone. The big mouth coward left me alone too.
That was stupid on my part because I had no idea if that coward had a gun or not, and cowards like that would use it instead of fighting. I also could have gone to jail on assault, but I was outraged because I did not steal anything, and didn't want to be his victim.
I'll say it again; it's been my experience that bullies are always cowards.

I saw this movie. It was all that you described and much more. It showed the evil that devlopes in children who lack guidance, discipline, loving parents and motivational goals and objectives in life. Extraordinary film. Thank you for posting it.

I taught my son how to deal with this sort of thing. We, as parents, are never sure our lessons were effective until our children show us that they were. I pulled up at school to pick my son up (he was in 4th grade), and the principal escorted my son over to the car. I thought "Oh, no - what has he done?" When they got to the car the principal told me "Daniel was just in a fight - I saw the entire thing - the other boy started it and Daniel finished it." I said "Thank you, sir" and we left. As we pulled out of the parking lot, Daniel said "Hey, we're going the wrong way" and I said "We're going to Wendy's and you're getting a Frosty."

Great story of anti-bulling. I started getting bullied in 5ith grade, and a popular kid at our school convinced me to fight back, so I did in 6th grade. Between 6th and 8th grade, I had 4 bullies and ended up beating them out up, By 9th grade a was an advocate of anti-bullying. Yes, I became a bully for a day in th grade. It's a circle. Great story!!!!!! A LOT of people all around the world, have been bullied or were bullies! UNFORTUNATATELY!

I was a middle class kid who was sent to an elite boarding school to get a better education than the local public school could offer. The bullying I and many others experienced there was extreme. It also came from some of the teachers. Some of whom were drug addicts or pedophiles. I hated it there but survived a better man with the help of some great friendships that became lifelong. The school was decades later engulfed in a sexual assault scandal with the former headmaster and several pedophiles identified and disgraced. Though nobody went to prison despite dozens of students being molested over decades. Thankfully I wasn't a victim but 3 of my friends were. I was bullied though. My advice regarding bullies is the first time he does it, drop him and show everyone he has no power over you. It took me several years of torture before i finally stood up. Lesson is that many of these spoiled rich kids can be real turds. Just like this movie.

I went to a public school and barely graduated because of poor grades and a happy-go-lucky attitude. It wasn’t until later that I buckled down, earned my degrees, and was a college professor. Education is important, but it’s not where you go to school, it’s what you make of it that matters.

I was in the 11th grade in 1983/84 when I finally turned the tables on my stepdad who thought he was my master…I was a great athlete (football, wrestling at school and boxing at the YMCA) and had put up with it too long. After a slight altercation where he asked for my keys (he was taking my car for really no reason)…I snapped. I threw the keys at him and he stood up and started taking off his belt. I ran up, grabbed him by his shirt, and threw him into a chair that had a unique design across the top (side note: the design of that chair was in our wall for years after, lol). I whacked him a few times and he crumbled like a rag doll. He was the type to keep running his mouth no matter how bad he was beat. So…every time he opened his mouth, I hit him again. As I tried to walk to my room, he jumped on my back. I quickly flipped him around, carried him into the hall where there was the old style heating grate (the kind from a 1940s/50s house in the center hallway about 30” x 50”). I belly to belly slammed him on the grate, where he grunted as all the air went out of his lungs. I saw him reach up to attempt to hit me, then laid a right hand across his face that put him in a temporary coma (knocked out).
Earlier that day, I had been at the River with my best friend and cut my foot on a broken bottle, pretty bad. We went back to my friends house, where his Aunt helped bandage my foot. I was gonna miss work and called my mom to tell her to call work to tell them (this was well before mobile phones and she had the number). During the fight with my stepdad, my foot had started bleeding again, and there was blood everywhere. My older sister had even started slapping me during the fight, not understanding what had happened. For some reason she took his side, despite us all knowing when he got caught at a peephole in the closet, looking at her bathing, a year earlier.
Days later I found out why all the beef started that day and why I was in trouble and my car keys were being taken…my real dad had simply called my mom to ask if I could come over that weekend, which wasn’t his normal “every 3rd weekend” regular visit. That pissed her off and she antagonized my stepdad until they were both fuming when I got home. I didn’t even know he had called, but I guess they thought I had gone behind their backs. That’s it, that’s all they were so upset about.
I went on to move in with my real dad shortly after, and did make amends with my mom and stepdad. Although I did whup his arse 2 more times just for good measure. The 2nd and 3rd times were after I was somewhat grown and had a child of my own. I just wish I had put him in his place a few years earlier when I knew I could.

I remember the first bullies I encountered. First grade. Bob and Joey had already failed a year, so they were slightly bigger, but not by much. They stuck together and terrorized probably 10 boys. They marched us in formation at lunch and recess. The threat wasn't really physical. They threatened to write on our arms with ink if we didn't obey. In first grade, ink pens were forbidden, so the threat was we'd get in trouble with the teacher. It kept us in line. Spring came, and I became a servant to Joey. All that meant was I had to stay with him and do what he said. But one day in late Spring, the breaking point came. Standing on a hill with Joey, he told me to do something, and I snapped after all those months. I barely remember it, then or now. A reflexive thing. I made a fist and punched Joey in the nose. He had an immediate bloody nose. I didn't immediately start dancing around in victory. On the contrary, I saw the blood and waited for the beating I knew was coming. Except it didn't come. Joey, whose voice sounded afraid and disbelieving, asked me repeatedly why I hit him. I don't recall answering him. There's more to the story, but it's not necessary here. No one has marched around after that day. And I learned bullies aren't so tough, but you have to stand up to them. I will say it's one of the reasons I don't care for anti-bullying programs, nor do I like parents getting involved. It was handled, I handled it, and there were no repercussions. Incidentally, Bob became a successful businessman, and Joey didn't return the following year. I still don't care for Bob all these decades later.

Early in school I let it be known that if I was bullied, you wouldn't walk away unbloodied. I had an older brother who was not only a lot bigger, but a bully to me and my younger brother as well. I learned to never back down and to fight back like hell! Luckily for me most bullies don't like to mess with people that fight back, so they left me alone. Not so for some of the other students. A guy who had been my best friend for years was bullying some Freshmen in the gym and I broke it up, telling the Freshmen to go on to class. The bullies all whined that I was breaking tradition and that they had been bullied when they were Freshmen. I told them I would NOT look the other way if they tried to keep that "tradition" alive. They got my meaning and the Freshmen were somewhat left alone after that. My experiences in school were probably an influencing factor of my decision to become a U.S. Marine and then later on, a bouncer in several bars! I don't like bullies and trouble makers!

I'd honestly say that there's a lot of things in this recap that are not exactly correct, but with them still being "close enough" I think it will actually make for a better experience if people decide that they wanna watch it.
Ondskan, or "Evil" is a Swedish masterpiece imho and the book is even better!

I was overweight in junior high school and made fun of and bullied because I'm asian at a town mostly of whites, blacks , Mexicans etc. My cousin from Vietnam moved in with our family and he taught me self defense and combat meanwhile I lost lots of weight exercising and training with him. This Cholo who constantly made fun of me a year later kept flicking my ear in lunch line and turned his back as I would turn around . I told him to stop and he said what r u going to do about it , I did a roundhouse kick he fell to the ground and after that I became a hero at my junior high school and I ended up getting a pretty girlfriend classmate from all of the action. It was like I was in a movie. I guess now I'm the bully! A good one.

I too was tormented and beat on repeatedly, until I became a berserker ... It is a blessing that those whom attacked me did not die .... I am old and crippled up now and try my best to be kind to all, but I've found I still have a trigger point😢

How in the world did I stumble across this gem!
I didn't even know this movie existed and now I'm desperate to watch it.
Thanks for these wonderful cliff notes!

Havent seen the film, but loved the book.
about 30 years ago I read it.
The painting taken down from the wall, was sold so Erik could go to that school.
Wasent there swimming, that keept him from much of the violence?
And a younger brother? That Erik saw got the same beating as he had before?
Must read it once more. 🙂 and the Hamilton series, were Erik Ponti is a part. 🙂

My primary school teachers liked to assault the kids. One was stabbed to death a few years ago. I was surprised it took so long for the guy to cross the "wrong" person. Karma was working slow .................

I heard a remake is planned. Actors are already picked, and both Andreas Wilson and Gustaf Skarsgård will be back to play Eriks stepfather and a teacher I think.
I really think everyone who liked the movie should read the book. Jan Guillou (the real Erik Ponti) is one of our biggest writers in Sweden so Im sure it's translated to english. The movie is great but should have been a series bc there is so much more in the book. The book ment alot to me s a teen.

Swedish films are masterpieces, the actors are amazing over there, they are so natural, I saw this film twice.

I had my son in a Catholic High School for one year...He was aweare of one kid who bullied everyone..This kid one day took m son's lunch. When it happened my son hit the kid pretty hard..The kid took the hit badly, but realized he had messed with the wrong kid..I was filled in that night by my son..He had done something that made me very proud, but I still had to not show it..

This should be a lesson to Bullies everywhere. You might get away with your negative behavior for a period of time but you never really know who you are truly dealing with especially if you keep targeting the same person(s) indefinitely. Think about that!! You may not care about them but remember you may face retribution later.

Formalised education, be it public or private, is simply a prison sentence without having to have a conviction. That entire model needs to be reconsidered. For thousands of years of human society, we educated children in other ways and brick-and-mortar institutions are a relatively recent phenomenon. It is time for the paradigm to shift again.

Sometimes violence is necessary , but situations like what happens to this boy is why violence is necessary. It’s tragic

No one knows this from my school but i was being bullied by upper classmen. It wasn't so much physical as it was demoralizing. One day i had enough. Walked up to one of the bullies and held a pencil to his throat. Told him they needed to stop or someone would suddenly find the full pencil inside him. The bullying stopped immediately

Otto is played by Gustav Skarsgård who also plays Floki on Vikings.

My maternal uncle was being bullied by these two boys. He got strep throat really bad, and it was taking him awhile to recover. These boys would wait for him when he walked home. Well my grandmother got wind of it. So, she waited on that road for those two boys with a stick. She used it, those boys never bothered my uncle again. 😁 True story.

This summary is well done and moves right along without quenching the desire to watch the film. 'Evil" recalls the "Chocolate Wars" film one I highly recommend. My own experience is in a massive 3500+ public high school, all colors, social classes, and a great tradition of fights, rumbles, bullying, cruelty and superior athletics. All in all, it boils down to respect and how to obtain it, keep it, and maintain it. It helps to have a father who has some moxie and a loving care of his boys. But, we had some real nasty and strong boys, some criminal types. My method, other than mixing it up an hitting hard, was to use humor. One feature of my years at that intellectual sewer was the black girls who were really ferocious when fighting in a jealous rage. We used to spread rumors about their guy getting it on with her hated rival. THen wait until you hear the screeching and cursing. They inevitably tore each other's blouse to shreds, providing a strip show. The oldest sister of our State Champion basketball team's toughest rebounder was easily the meanest, toughest, most ruthless fighter in the whole city, capable of beating up even her brother.
The 'cool, in-crowd' guys who ran the school resemble the characters at the private school in this film mentioned. They were cold, nasty, pretend-religious, dressed in the latest, had the perfect girlfriends, and were headed to primo fraternities at the university. It was not wise to antagonize them by being successful, talented, or a ladies' man. Underhanded means and destruction, lies, rumors, planted evidence and so on followed.
One can be ready for adulthood if one learns what a closed society is really all about. My dear country, my patria, is at present being driven into the ground by a group of determined, self-centered manipulators with the help of their enforcement arms, banks, soldiers, lawless enforcement and the constant tree-top screams of the various forms of media. Since these are at a distance and nearly abstract, it is hard to take them to the fighting area and teach them respect. It must be done or we have tyranny and civil war. Men must be men and deal with it eventually. Bullies do not retire, quit, change to a more compassionate form of bullying.
It is interesting how most of the comments dial back to you youths, when we were young but still tender hearted. I happen to have been born into a family of very tough and dangerous men and even tougher women. Whining was not an option, but I at least had many cousins. We always had a mouthpiece to scheme and set up the muscle for confrontations. It is REALLY exciting to settle an old score or put real boundaries down! In the end, we never escape danger because our modern era has mastered the Lie, so that strong men with weak minds are easily fooled and led to the financial slaughter. Fathers cannot build estates to hand down to sons (hardly true of the 500 wealthiest, eh?). Women who want to rule the property and have au pairs, servants, many children and stability? We men can make that happen but it is not easy if you are on the end of the lash or are salary or wage earner.
The pecking order of society is so common and has been there since the first tribe that we have to withhold our judgment about it. It is wise to just clear out the area you want to maintain and forget abstract political solutions. All come down to faith, fighting and common decency.
But a boy who has not taken a lot of crap has missed out on what is a fact of life. I regret it, but it is a fact.

THIS WAS SO GOOD! I'M GOING TO GO WATCH THE WHOLE MOVIE NOW!

You make it sound like 2 bullys - It's actually organized hazing, and Otto and the rest are three or four years older than Erik.
I don't remember a lawyer - in the book Erik was scolded with boiling water and left outside overnight - almost killing him. Which is what put him in a position where they couldn't really expel him.

I was a new kid and got bullied by the local karate students who wore skeleton outfits on halloween. I became friends with an older retired karate sensei. I helped him out and he got me to paint his fencing and wax stuff on and off. I entered the local karate competition and in the last round I used my special crane kick move that my sensei taught me. I won and got the girl. Then I went on the run a successful car dealership 🥋 👊

never seen or heard of it but will see about watching it at some point... You're doing a nice service presenting these little known works (this was nominated for best foreign language film at the 2003 Academy Awards - but not notice) to our attention.

After watching your movie review recap , I saw this movie. Great Movie ! Loved your Recap as well. Thanks.

I watched this video before. I would have gotten Otto earlier. I do not like bullies in the least. I never looked for a fight. I was injured by two boys badly enough to where I had to have corrective surgery. I got one of the boys back and his father who was a major called my mother demanding that I be punished. He changed his tune when my mother told him that I needed to have corrective surgery for what his son and the other boy had done to me 5 months earlier. That's when she threatened to sue him and the captain whose son had injured me. I am 68 years old today and was unable to father any children because of the injuries that I had received. I wish that my folks had sued them. They were too nice. Both the major and the captain moved their families. I never got even with the captains son. Oh, well. I hope both boys turned out to be good people. Vaughn

I had tears in my eyes by watching this clip, must be a damn good movie! Thanks!

It was a great movie. A strong atory line, unexpected turns throughout, and superb acting. Andreas Wilson style reminds me of Tom Hardy.

I wish I could watch the whole movie, thank you for sharing the synopsis though

Thank you for your work! It's nice to watch your videos!

I was bullied in high school on and off until my senior year. After seeing others stand up for themselves, I challenged a little bitch who was throwing staples at me at the end of class. I had to be held back. I was going to beat him badly, in front of the whole class. I saw real fear in the other kid. I waited for him after several more classes, but he avoided me strenuously. Thus endeth the bullying.

Thank you for this recap !

I begged people for help and no one does with bullies. In school once I finally had it and realized NOBODY was going to help me. I made my peace with that and blamed them all. Teachers...parents...other students and decided this one bully was NEVER going to bully me again. I mean NEVER. I chose to call him out in the middle of classes because I wasn’t going to be ganged up on after school. He wouldn’t go and I embarrassed him. Then the bell rang and I punched the chalkboard and broke it. I never heard about it and would have dared them to make me pay for it. I was proud of myself either way. BUT it does not end in school...bullying continues later on... everywhere by anyone.

What about MARJA??!!! They need to get together.

This was the first book I read in Swedish when I was 16. Great story.

This movie is awesome.

I waited for Erik to belt the crap out of his stepfather, a sadistic narcissist

Yo, great recap of 'Evil'! This movie is wild - it's dark, funny, and totally messed up all at the same time. The cast was killer and the story had me hooked from start to finish. If you're into twisted comedies that'll keep you on the edge of your seat, definitely give this one a watch

Didn't expect this movie to be so good, would never have watched it but the summary here was excellent, thank you

The actual movie is shorter then the preview.

Actually, this sounds a lot like an autobiography I read of a criminal, "My Shadow ran fast". Old. Excellent. At the age of 19 he was in San Quentin doing 3 consecutive life sentences. Then,
he turned his life around.

I went to a boarding school and it was basically torture from privileged rich kids on the smaller kids. No chance to fight back and win. Adults always ignore this; no matter the physical or psychological torment, not their problem. We even had some crazy teachers who reveled in their power over the kids and would use it to rage out against them or assume attitudes of kingly superiority, entirely unearned and unnecessary. Over trivial matters or just made-up baloney. Boarding schools can be absolute hell-holes. You're isolated from any family or community support, and pitted against people who know they have all the support in the world no matter what they do, because teachers and admins have a very vested interest in supporting the rich kids regardless. And not just the rich kids trying to pick on their peers. The rich kids purposely picking out those younger and far less physically developed, who will suffer not matter what option they choose, and indeed enter into even the discussion through suffering.

"Hit the dislike button twice to be sure." Gets me every time I hear it. 😍

I already HAVE watched the whole movie. In fact, I found this synopsis so good, I hit the like button three times!

I was bullied all my years of school. In 1975 at 16 years old and a junior in high school. Korean Master J Man Lee came to school and did a demonstration. He was a Master in Tae-kwon-do, Hapkido, and Judo. He also was an expert with numerous weapons. He was looking to get new students and I could not wait to join. I have lived and breathed martial arts for 48 years. I started teaching my son when he was only 4. When he was a junior in high school I learned about a football player who had been picking on him for 3 years. He had been talking to his mom and she by all means told him to walk away and not get into trouble. I was never told about it. When I over heard him and his mom I waited for my chance to talk to him. I told him I over heard the conversation and not to worry about what would happen but the next time this kid picked on him to make it he last time. At 16 unlike me my son was a 3rd degree black belt in 2 styles of martial arts and a black belt in the other. The next day was the last time that kid ever picked on my son. Master Lee recently passed away at age 83. May he R.I.P.

Took me waaaay too long to figure out that Otto Silverhielm is played by Gustaf Skarsgård, who also plays Floki on the show Vikings. Or maybe it's just another Skarsgårds clone roaming free across the world?

i will never forget this movie.
- one of the best i have ever seen...

This is completely unfair! Your summaries are so good that I feel like I've watched the whole movie when you finish!
I try to find fault with your monotone delivery, your editing choices, your movie choices - but I can't. For me, you've hit on the right combination of elements for presenting a straightforward synopsis that is oddly exciting.
I'm sorry, I can't subscribe to your channel because I don't want to find your offerings in my queue too often. Hell, then I'll never watch another movie - just soak up the "Cliff Notes" you craft so well. Thank you!

Swedish movie from about twenty years ago. I saw it a few years after it came out and thought it was really good but I forgot the title so glad I found this short.

It`s probably the best swedish movie ever made

I slightly misunderstood your instructions at the end and hit the like button twice.

Fun fact. The caracter Piere returns in one the wrighters later books about the Swedish miltary/spy Carl Hamilton. Piere, after leaving the school, joins the French Foreign Legion and when he returns in the book he has retired with the rank of Colonel.

This looks like a well-developed movie, I wonder if they'll be a second one to catch up on his assessment or his friendship with those individuals

Better than watching the actual movie

Really wanted to see ottos face opened up!

His mother absolutely cared that her son was being beaten. Playing the piano was a way for her to cope with it.

For those of you who's interested. This movie is an adaption of the Jan Guillou book sharing the same name (Ondskan('evil' in swedish).
The book is unfortunately partly written as an autobiography. As such, both the infamous school, Solbacka, and the culture of violence shown in the movie were all very real. Many of the students who graduated from there became influential people in Sweden, mostly due to their extensive networking and continued culture of cooperative elitism.
Our main character is based on the author, who himself caused and went through all the trauma shown in this movie during his childhood at this school.
This movie was up until pretty recently still shown in Swedish schools.

Saw this film many years ago and always remember it as I think it was one of the best movies of courage and survival I ever saw. The main lad kept his powder dry with patience, tolerance and stoicism until he was allowed to unleash the powerful beast he kept internalized for a few years for it to devour all the people who had mocked, hurt and humiliated the caged lion to their own detriment

I was bullied my first year in high school in Chicago during 1964. Immediately the bullies stop picking on me once they found out I live in a dangerous Southside public housing building, and everyone in that public housing building are close friends with my family.

I remember being jealous of a cousin (who I used to think of as a bit of a snob), & a close friend- who got to go to boarding schools; I just thought of the opportunities they'd have there; like a school pool, rather than having to go to a public one- horse riding, & the like - when they later told me about their experiences at them... I don't think I would have been able to last at them.
My friend had it even worse than my cousin- as she'd gotten to her school on a scholarship. It's gross that someone smart, or talented enough to get a scholarship- should then be a target of bullying.

I watched this movie years ago. It reminded me of my childhood and the fights I got into to defend myself from bullies.

Excellent skim through movie

This move is WAY more brutal then you make it out to be.

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The movie is good but the book by Jan Guillou is amazing

Gosh, I was mesmerized by that video and its’ story, so intense. Very good. Held my interest.

Oh my God. I saw this in the theater in the US when it came out. I haven't thought about this movie in 15 or 20 years. I'm going to watch it again!

This movie reminds me of this time that me and my friends killed this drifter. Then his son came back to avenge his death and killed 6 of my friends before I had to kill him too. I think we can all learn a lot from movies like this. They show us that violence is not always the best way to solve problems. I wish I would have learned this lesson before we killed the drifter.

A very fine synopsis. I read about this film in the "New York Times" when it was released, and then obtained it next year through Netflix DVD. I enjoy Scandinavian films, revenge films, and watching bullies get their comeuppance. Be forewarned, it is extremely violent and cruel. Erik's home life is bad enough. The guys at the boarding school are typical stupid bullies. They see Erik is athletic, and should have recognized his toughness. But they don't, and he beats the crap out of them. Also, at the end they hint at the faculty being leftover Nazi sympathizers. Gee, after the last six years, no wonder why we have so much irrational cruelty in America.

Sometimes the best lessons you get from school or not from books and blackboards

I loved your narration and condensed auditory! I absolutely loved this! Do you have more videos like this? I never would watch a movie like this but i hung on every word you narrated and was so engaged! Perfection! Like a book report in perfect sequence live! Totally fantastic man!!

Great recap of this underrated movie. Kipidap👍

Another missed chance.
It's just so bad that all these movies about bullying promote only one way to deal with them: Violence !
As a person who suffered from bullying in school I must ask:
What should a kid do which is not physically superior?
Just sink itself in despair?
Movies with this theme should show them ways (there are some) besides of the spiral of violence.

I remember this movie, it takes place in Sweden and is just a attack on culture and tradition, which is why in the movie it portrayed the way it is, it shows despicable aristocracy and noble lowerclass as an attack on swedish nobility and values. For the avg. US viewer that might emphatize with anti monarchial views you also have to remember that this is the history of most of europe, a history that predates the existence of the USA.

I wasn't expecting the narration but it was so well done I kept watching.

The principle: Yo are expelled Eric!
Eric: I am 36 years old anyway,,,,yah ftw!!

At school I was bullied by a lad at school who was like little finger in Game of thrones ; he conspired and bullshit his way and sucked up to the hard lads and caused trouble and was proper horrible to a lot of people . One day 6’3 “ me snapped I beat the shit out of him .. He never bullied me again and nobody else did . The said idiot ( little finger ) is now a … cop … Jesus and yes apparently he’s still a dick ! I’m 50 now.Never let anyone bully you, you have to face it .

what happened to the girl :(

Wow, what a great story line you have made me aware exists in this Movie. Thanks!

Pretty messed up school where someone can beat someone bloody in the middle of a meal out in the open and not even get a talking to by a teacher.

"Evil" was a great hidden gem of a movie. I watched it way before the main antagonist was known as 'Floki'.

This movie is available now as a free movie on KRplus. Reminds me a lot of The Lords of Discipline.