Lithivm

I recently had the opportunity to see Lithium at a local film festival. This film was not only the best film I saw at the festival, but one of the best films that I've seen in a long time.

The story takes place in Stockholm, Sweeden and revolves around a young girl who is working as an assistant journalist for a small paper. The girl soon becomes obsessed with a local story about a series of unsolved murders that have taken place, and becomes determined to find the killer on her own.

The director's unique, "hand held" style of filming combined with a very effective use of music and sound and a great story, make this a fascinating film.

If you like a good thriller that will keep you glued to the edge of your seat until the very end, this is a must see film!

This was a real good movie! it was filmed very nice, looked a bit like 16mm film (maybe it was...?), anyway, the acting was good, not very good. The story itself was also very good. I give this film 7,5 out of 10

Some of the users who have posted comments about Lithivm seem to have missed the point entirely. The film breathes fresh air into the serial killer genre and the end result redraws the map of a serial killer's mind trying to understand it rather than getting lost in pornographic, senseless violence like most recent filims of this kind. Lithivm uses the childish naivete of its main character to reflect on our obsession with serial murders, violence and success. Plot aside, the film looks incredible: super-saturated, grainy shots and handheld like you've never seen before. Seven has nothing on this film when it comes to the cinematography. Any film which causes this much anger among imdb users has got to be worth checking out. So watch it and make up your own mind.

And if someone says something else, they must be lying.

I suppose the director at some point had a vision of a good movie, but the result is quite far from that. Never before have I seen a movie or even a home made amateur film that have done EVERYTHING so completely wrong.

If you are not Swedish you can't possibly understand how extremely stupid and unnatural the dialogue sounds. But anyone should be able to see that the story and characters are just too weird.

I actually saw the whole movie, just to see if there would be interesting twist or surprise that would make anything in this movie make sense, but there wasn't.

Lithivm is without doubt the worst Swedish film ever. Fredrik Dolk has an habit to end up in very strange films, like Sektor 236 and Nattbus 807 but this flick has to take the price. The movie is on crack, to plot is all over the place and all the actors, with the exception of Fredrik Dolk are terrible. Björn Granath overacts like a maniac and it seems he might have done this on purpose realizing how horrible the film was.

The big irony is that this flick is one of those typical Swedish drama movies that we poor Swedes has to endure, because they are "artisitic" and "has a point".