He’s not seriously hurt, but in being brain-scanned for signs of concussion or other injury, it’s revealed that he has a tumor. Despite the involvement of some significant Danish cinema talent, this is a misfire whose main export value may be as discussion fodder for medical and psychiatric students.Ĭertainly the setup is intriguing: After impulsively endangering his entire family’s lives with reckless driving on Spanish holiday, private school headmaster Frederik Halling ( Nikolaj Lie Kaas) either falls or deliberately throws himself off a roadside embankment. To what extent can those actions be defended as direct results of his condition? It’s an interesting question, but not as posed over and over in a mix of arid courtroom testimony and earnestly plodding dramatic conflict, all of which presumably worked better in Christian Jungersen’s original novel. Strenuously failing to convince otherwise on both counts is “You Disappear,” an initially absorbing, increasingly exasperating study of a family man whose actions grow inexplicable and indefensible after it’s discovered he has a brain tumor. It certainly doesn’t mean the discussion of such disorders is inherently dramatic. That doesn’t mean every such disorder is a natural for dramatization, however. As Oliver Sacks’ best-selling tomes proved, there’s an irresistible fascination to the more peculiar regions of neuroscience and related dysfunctional behavior.
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