{"id":4053,"date":"2021-01-18T22:08:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T06:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laelements.com\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2021-01-18T22:12:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T06:12:51","slug":"turned-a-toxic-power-play-between-father-and-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laelements.com\/turned-a-toxic-power-play-between-father-and-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Turned: A Toxic Power Play Between Father and Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4055\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4055\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4055\" src=\"https:\/\/laelements.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Turned-3.png\" alt=\"Sylvester Byder and Jacob Hauberg Lohman star in the live action short, Turned.\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laelements.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Turned-3.png 800w, https:\/\/laelements.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Turned-3-768x288.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sylvester Byder and Jacob Hauberg Lohman in a scene from Turned.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES, CA (LA ELEMENTS) 1\/19\/2021 –<em>Turned <\/em>opens with Kasper, (Sylvester Byder), a young college student who is sitting alone in his car late at night.\u00a0 Trapped inside the car with him is a moth, desperately fluttering close to the dome light.\u00a0 We see Kasper reach out and seize the moth with his hands, examining it closely.\u00a0 The movie then cuts to daylight where Kasper is in class studying another moth under a microscope while his instructor notes, \u201cWith its auditory organs the moth can perform evading movements in the dark.\u00a0 While navigating very well in darkness, the moth does terribly in the light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of darkness that Kasper himself must navigate in<em> Turned<\/em>, a live action short film written and directed by Academy Award winner, (<em>Helium<\/em>), Anders Walter.\u00a0 A soft-spoken young man who is passionate about his studies and yet races cars mostly because that is what his father wants, we soon discover that Kasper is living a life of despair.\u00a0 It\u2019s especially interesting that in the beginning the tone and pacing of <em>Turned <\/em>is much like a horror movie, because there is indeed a monster in <em>Turned-<\/em>Kasper\u2019s alcoholic father, Michael (Jacob Hauberg Lohman).\u00a0 It is in several flashbacks where we discover that this patriarch literally rules his family with an iron fist.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Kasper thrives.\u00a0 He thrives in the sense that a successful career as a race car driver is his for the taking, if that is what he truly wants.\u00a0 He also thrives in that the brutality of his father has not broken him down.\u00a0 At least not yet.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in his science class where Kasper meets Veronika (Clara Rosager) and falls deeply in love, setting him at a crossroads in life:\u00a0 Should he continue devoting his life to race car driving and in the process fulfill the wishes of his father?\u00a0 That would certainly be the easy choice since that is what he is used to.\u00a0 Or should he venture into the unknown?\u00a0 Should he abandon race car driving altogether for the chance to start a new life with someone he loves?<\/p>\n<p>Either choice leaves Kasper to reckon with his father whose obsession with his son\u2019s racing career borders on the pathological.\u00a0 Nowhere is this more evident than the look of contempt in Michael’s otherwise dead eyes when Kasper finally musters up the courage to dare suggest that he might wish to do something different with his life.<\/p>\n<p>While I would have liked to have learned more about Lisbeth, Kasper\u2019s mother, this short film smoothly powers towards its surprising conclusion in most part due to the insightful performances of the lead and supporting actors.<\/p>\n<p>Veronika doesn\u2019t want to give up on Kasper even when he appears to be pushing her away.\u00a0 Clara Rosager\u2019s performance lets you understand that she hopes by holding on a little bit longer, there might be something beautiful waiting for the both of them.<\/p>\n<p>Sylvester Byder as Kasper has a number of powerful moments in <em>Turned<\/em>.\u00a0 One of the most memorable is also one of the most uncomfortable:\u00a0 watching him try to keep from crumbling during a confrontation with his father.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Lohman rises above the temptation to play Michael as a mere brute.\u00a0 What\u2019s more terrifying than a monster?\u00a0 How about one who understands you all too well?\u00a0 It\u2019s an especially shattering moment when Michael, cognizant of the trauma that Kasper has suffered from seeing his mother brutalized says, \u201cYou need to understand that you\u2019re responsible too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Kasper understands his father just as well.\u00a0 Well enough to realize that he will need the courage to do the unimaginable if he is to have any chance of happiness.\u00a0 Will he though?\u00a0 It speaks to the impression that <em>Turned <\/em>makes on the viewer that we need to find out.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>Turned<\/p>\n<p>Director\u00a0\u00a0 Anders Walter<\/p>\n<p>Writer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anders Walter<\/p>\n<p>Executive Producers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Henrik Appel, Tivi Magnusson<\/p>\n<p>Musical Score\u00a0 Rasmus Walter, Hansen<\/p>\n<p>Cinematographer\u00a0 Rasmus Heise<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>In Danish with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p>20:01 minutes<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>Follow LA ELEMENTS on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/laelements\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/la_elements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Like us on <a 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