Angels in Fast Motion。。。 Nordkraft

This movie let me have a glimpse into the lives of drug addicts tho i heard of them quite often in hospital. Heard that they have plenty of them in psych ward

Beware some degree of nudity.


Ole Christian Madsen’s Angels in Fast Motion, adapted from Jacob Ejersbo’s novel. it is a gripping and brutal insight into the lives of three young adults, Maria, Allan and Steso, living and coming to terms with drugs, each other and life itself. the show brought us to an adrenalin-fuelled trip through bleak territory, with a jolt of humanity. The drug warrens of Copenhagen are hotbeds of addiction and desperation, teeming with souls in a mad search for salvation. I was hooked on this show as drug addiction is something so common yet i have no exposure in. (of course i have been a very good girl and movie is the outlet)


Maria is a drugs trafficker or pusher frau as she refers to herself, who goes to Jutland and picks up drugs for her boyfriend Asger, who is unable to give her the love and affection she needs. They live with two doped out dogs, large Rottwellers that are continuously high on the hash fumes and the stinking pig carcass that Asger is using for a tattoo canvas. Not exactly an ideal situation. A close encounter with authorities jolts Maria’s perspective on her life and she wants out. Maria falls for another dealer Hossein and her wish to quit the business is put aside while she follows her heart and finds love. To me, she is just falling into another ditch by loving another drug pusher.........


Allan an ex-drug smuggler turned-sailor returning home from a long stint overseas. Once home though his demons return to haunt him tempting him to do one last job.Allan was injured on board his ill fated ship and he returns home showing the scars from his accident, looking to just get on with life and not fall back into the old traps of the drug world he once inhabited, but some ghosts are harder to remove than others. And after a chance meeting with an old time ‘friend’, Frank (Rudi Köhnke), things are anything but safe. Meanwhile he found romance in a new girl and wish to turn his life around for her. This man has guts and he got away with what he does. This is the only character with a good ending.


Steso, an intellectual, god-forsaken and prophetic cynic has two bad habits, one being of the drug kind. The other is that he possesses his childhood girlfriend, Tilde , who has one foot in the psychiatric chair and the other in some dreamy state of yellow and karma. This guy is unique he reads widely while he did drugs. Tilde is trying to persuade Steso to quit drugs; a pastime he enjoys far too much. Daunted by the idea of life without drugs Steso’s refusal to give it all up forces Tilde to leave him. With no shoulder to lean on Steso’s world spirals further out of control. Steso must resist sinking back into his addiction or risk losing the girl he loves. He almost suceeded from his cold turkey. However, when he went back home and found no one there...something just trigger and he injected himself and it finally killed him.


These three lives are intertwined through Asger, the dealer. Maria does not want to make any more trips and that leads to the introduction of Hossein, a Persian moneylender who has more going on than what he lets on to, who is going to take on her role. Allan is forced into doing a job for Frank, of which he borrowed some money from Hossein, and Steso can’t get grip of loosing Tilde and wants to get some oblivion in the way of the pain.

Ole Christian Madsen gives us a stylish and grim movie with a soundtrack to die for, full of hyper camera moves and bouncing POV steadycams,emphasizing the moods in the scenes that truly makes us feel that we are as close to those hash fumes as those barking dogs are. The characters are great and very, very believable in their futile attempts to make sense of the madness in the world they inhabit and the mood is kept light enough that it does not become unbearably grim and too downbeat to alienate its viewers.

Up-close scenes of pupils dilating and needles being injected into veins are shocking but give further insight into the tragic and monotonously dull lives of these twenty-somethings. Excellent handy cam shots accompanied by a funky soundtrack give reprieve from the tragic lives of these fragile human beings and their painful addiction to drugs.

the characters are really convincing. their desires are all so simple. it just that they headed in a different direction that it is hard to turn back... Mayb they are just stereotype...but who cares.... >_<

adapted from various sources eg. monstercritics.com, jaman.com & myself