A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.
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Tina, who has grotesque, almost animal-like physical features, has always felt self-conscious about her looks. Regardless, she has: a live-in boyfriend, Roland, a dog trainer, at her isolated house in the woods, although they have never had sex, and Tina's father, who is in the early stages of Alzheimer's, believing he is solely using her; the unconditional love and support of her father; a small group of friends; and the admiration of her bosses and coworkers in her job as a customs agent at the airport, as she is literally able to "smell" human emotions, especially guilt and fear. It is using that innate ability that she stops a seemingly straight-laced person entering the country, he who was found to be carrying a memory card containing child pornography. As such, her immediate supervisor, Agneta, places her on a small investigative unit to discover the producers of this material. Tina is surprised when she is found to be incorrect about another person going through customs, Vore, ...Written by
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To transform into Tina, Eva Melander gained weight and spent four hours in the make-up chair. She would invariably start her make-up process at 2am every day. See more »
Goofs
In the end credits, "Stockholms Hamnar" (Stockholm Harbors) is misspelled as "Stockholms Hamner". See more »
Quotes
[last lines]
Tina:
I don't see the point of evil.
Vore:
So you want to be human?
Tina:
I don't want to hurt anyone. Is it human to think that way?
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I recommend this to anyone that loves weird films, because this is certainly one of them!
Gripping throughout, dark, good story and performances, unpredictable, very original.
A high 7/10!