Netflix remains an inexhaustible source of surprises in the form of movies you didn’t expect and suddenly become big hits.. The latest case is ‘The Troll’, a Norwegian production featuring a menacing and gigantic digitally animated troll. 40 to 50 meters high, mimicking King Kong, Godzilla, and other similar creatures. The movie has no known actors.. A little more so, as its director Roar Uthaug signed the version of ‘Tomb Raider’ starring Alicia Wikander.. The story is pretty classic. The special effects are good but fail to match the digital splendor of Hollywood cinema. But This fantastic environmental film must have climbed to the top of Netflix’s ratings.
Premiered on December 1, slightly over played so far 128 million hours. in Spain, last Tuesday, it was the third most watched movie on the platform. Two days later it dropped to only seventh place and remained there in the top 10 predicted by the chain. ‘Troll’ is already one of the most popular foreign films of all time and is currently one of the top 10 movies in 93 countries worldwide.
Considering that Netflix measures this popularity quota for a movie during the first 28 days of its release, it has almost two weeks left for it to continue to sweep and hit astronomical numbers. It’s already over Another surprise of the platform is ‘Bloody Red Sky’, an interesting mix of vampires and jihadist terrorism premiere ‘streamingin July 2021. This little German production has been played for 110 million hours on Netflix.
norwegian folklore
It’s simple, the story catches up. If you’ve watched ‘Godzilla’, ‘Jurassic Park’ and above all ‘King Kong’ the story is not surprising but immersion in old Norwegian folklore gives ‘Troll’ an added bonus. No dinosaur DNA or creatures produced by atomic explosions. The action begins when a pair of climbers, father and daughter, crown a summit where you can see the majestic Picos de los Trolls. This is the Trolltindane mountain range, which rises about 1,700 meters from the valley, which is the target of many climbers. but in the moviethe mountain has a magical background. The father, a teacher of Norwegian dialect and folklore, tells his daughter to close her eyes and let herself be left to the girl’s imagination. And young Nora Tideman sees then, carved into the rocks of the ridge, the sullen faces of several trolls.
20 years later, Nora is a famous paleobiologist who was called in by the Norwegian government when a strange event occurred. On Dovre, another mountain range in central Norway, a gigantic creature rises from the depths as the mountain bulldozers demolish it to make way for a modern railroad track. Earlier, a group of protesters shouted ‘Long live the mountain’. Ecological discourse is present throughout the film, along with a historical bias regarding Norse myths: the violent Christianization process ended the troll dynasty.
The explosion awakens the stone and moss giant, and we’ve already ruined everything. while destroying everything in its path oslo, Nora tries to find the right way to counter the threat and preserve the mythology. It’s that simple to be the most watched movie of recent times.