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2006 film by Erik Richter Strand

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Sons is a 2006 Norwegian film focusing on the conflict between a pederast and the boys with whom he has had intimate relationships (his "sons"). It is Erik Richter Strand's first feature film as a director, and the feature-film debut of producer Eric Vogel and cinematographer Johan-Fredrik Bødker. Plot Lars (Nils Jørgen Kaalstad) is a 25-year-old man who is going nowhere in life. He is a lifeguard in a swimming hall in the eastern parts of Oslo (characterized by its lower middle class population). He is well-meaning, but he has a violent temper - the result of an unhappy, abuse-ridden childhood. His best friend Jørgen (Edward Schultheiss) is transitioning to adult life with his live-partner, Anja (Marika Enstad) and their children, but Lars is still living the bachelor's life, consisting mostly of drinking beer and playing soccer. One day at a swimming pool, Lars recognizes Hans (Henrik Mestad), a middle-aged man with a reputation for "fiddling" with teenage boys in the neighborhood. Lars alerts Anja, the manager of the pool, that Hans is a menace who needs to be barred from the facilities. Anja says that Lars needs to get his life together and stop making uncorroborated accusations. When Lars meets Tim (Mikkel Bratt Silset), one of Hans' victims, he resolves to prevent the predator from harming any more children. Cast Nils Jørgen Kaalstad as Lars Mikkel Bratt Silset as Tim Edward Schultheiss as Jørgen Henrik Mestad as Hans Ingrid Bolsø Berdal as Norunn Anna Bache-Wiig as Heidi Ronnie Baraldsnes as Nyhetsanker Christin Borge as Dame i svømmehallen Terje Brevik as Prostitute's client Fredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen as Victim Marika Enstad as Anja Henrik Fjelldal as Roar Ane Hoel as Studio expert Lars Erik Holter as Man in Asker Jeppe Beck Laursen as Prostitute's client (billed as Jeppe Laursen) Fredrik Norrman as Torgeir Joachim Rafaelsen as Joakim

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“Shield children from everything false; guard them against worthless music; protect them from obscenity; protect them from false competitions; protect them from affirmation of selfhood. The more so, since it is necessary to inculcate a love for incessant learning. The muscles must not gain the upper hand over mind and heart.”
— Agni Yoga, New Era Community (1926), sect. 116. Reported in Harold Balyoz, Three Remarkable Women (1986), p. 97
“Nothing matters more to a child than a place to call home.”
— Brenda Donald, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Resources, "Brenda Donald: Mission possible for Maryland: 1,000 new foster parents by 2010", Examiner.com (5 February 2008)
“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
— Carl Jung, The Integration of the Personality (1939)
“Children appeal to us by a variant of the quality of pathos.”
— Alice Meynell, Children of the Old Masters (Italian School) (London: Duckworth and Co., 1903), "Introductory Note", p. 5
“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”
— Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973), Emotions
“The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.”
— Lydia Sigourney, p. 53.

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Sons is a 2006 Norwegian film focusing on the conflict between a pederast and the boys with whom he has had intimate relationships. It is Erik Richter Strand's first feature film as a director, and the feature-film debut of producer Eric Vogel and cinematographer Johan-Fredrik Bødker.

Website: http://www.sonner.no/

Notable quotes

“Shield children from everything false; guard them against worthless music; protect them from obscenity; protect them from false competitions; protect them from affirmation of selfhood. The more so, since it is necessary to inculcate a love for incessant learning. The muscles must not gain the upper hand over mind and heart.”
— Agni Yoga, New Era Community (1926), sect. 116. Reported in Harold Balyoz, Three Remarkable Women (1986), p. 97
“Nothing matters more to a child than a place to call home.”
— Brenda Donald, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Resources, "Brenda Donald: Mission possible for Maryland: 1,000 new foster parents by 2010", Examiner.com (5 February 2008)
“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
— Carl Jung, The Integration of the Personality (1939)
“Children appeal to us by a variant of the quality of pathos.”
— Alice Meynell, Children of the Old Masters (Italian School) (London: Duckworth and Co., 1903), "Introductory Note", p. 5
“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”
— Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973), Emotions
“The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.”
— Lydia Sigourney, p. 53.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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