I suggest that you get the DVD<\/a> and enjoy the movie in full quality, but if you can\u2019t, try to locate a downloadable<\/a> version.<\/p>\n Cf. a great collection of movie screenshots<\/a>, and two interesting reviews by Rich Cline and Jamie Russell:<\/p>\n Review<\/a> by Rich Cline<\/a> (Shadows On The Wall)<\/p>\n This witty, dry Danish film is almost like a younger-sweeter Donnie Darko with its surreal examination of fate and purpose. Hodder (Johansen) is a cheeky boy living with his widowed father (Brygmann) and blissfully unaware that he’s the butt of all the jokes at school. Which is something, since his classmates and teacher (Neumann) are all rather loopy in their own right. When a little fairy (Stovelbaek) tells Hodder that it’s his destiny to save the world, he’s naturally overwhelmed by the enormity of the task. But soon his good-natured fearlessness combines with his rather large imagination as he starts to formulate a plan of action.<\/p>\n Telling the story completely from Hodder’s point of view keeps the tone fairly light, even when it’s dealing with rather significant issues. The characters are all vividly well written and played by the cast–each is a bundle of idiosyncrasies, and we’re not sure if this is how they really are or how Hodder sees them. But it doesn’t matter at all when it’s this enjoyable … and telling. Meanwhile, Hodder’s escalating quest is nicely paralleled against the more down-to-earth issues he’s facing at home and school: serious things that really get under our skin, because we can see how important they are, even if Hodder can’t.<\/p>\n The film is also full of revealing little details–small adventures and characters who are annoying, wacky, charming, surprising. We are completely drawn in to the way Hodder seems so oblivious to the cruelty all around him, returning love and compassion for all the spite he is given; the way Hodder gets a little crush on virtually every woman he meets is both sparky and sweet, as is his banter with the fairy (“You’ve been chosen to save the world!” she says, to which Hodder replies, “Can you come back next week?”). He’s a naive innocent, and yet also bravely willing to go against the grain. And in winning over the people around him, he gets us too.<\/p>\n Review<\/a> by Jamie Russell<\/a> (BBC)<\/p>\n Hodder Emanuel Jacobsen (Frederik Christian Johansen) isn’t quite like anybody else. A dreamy nine-year-old with a passion for strange flights of fancy, rum whirls, and asking his stressed-out teacher (Birthe Neumann) impertinent questions about her perfume. He’s a friendless, motherless boy trying to make sense of a strange, strange world. But when his mum returns as an angel and tells him that he must save the planet, wacky but touching Danish family comedy-drama Someone Like Hodder gets even weirder.<\/p>\n Deciding to save the world a little bit at a time, Hodder opens his atlas and discovers the tiny (and fictional) African island of Guambilua. All he needs to do is mount an expedition to get there. But with no friends and a dad who’s out all night putting up fly posters, how’s a little boy supposed to get from Denmark to Africa?<\/p>\n “TOUCHINGLY AFFECTIONATE”<\/p>\n Blurring the boundaries of fantasy and reality, Someone Like Hodder offers a touchingly affectionate take on the perils of growing up weird. Hodder’s strangeness inevitably leads his classmates to bully him. Yet in reality, he’s the least weird person of all (especially if the Icelandic girl who sits next to him in class with her lunchbox full of smoked sheep’s brains is anything to go by). Convinced that life’s disappointments can be overcome with enough rum whirls and a positive attitude, he’s coping far better with his family tragedy than anyone could have expected.<\/p>\n Despite dealing with some quite adult themes – bullying, divorce, and bereavement – Someone Like Hodder never disguises its slightness of tone. Demanding children in the audience will probably be far from enchanted by its magical interludes – not to mention the caterwauling Danish pop soundtrack – but the film’s love of its pint-sized, daffy hero is genuinely warm enough to win the day.<\/p>\n Related : The Man without a Face<\/a> \/ David Copperfield<\/a> \/ Hans Christian Andersen : The Ice Maiden<\/a>, A Story<\/a> \/ Why Andersen rises higher than Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Someone](\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hodderaward.jpg\" "\\"Someone")
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