All language subtitles for Du forsvinder (2017)

Could you go a bit faster?

Faster?
You want me to speed up?

Frederik...

Frederik, slow down.

It's not funny any more.

Relax, Mom, it's fine.

No. It's not!

He can't go so fast
on this road...

Frederik.

Slow down.
I don't like it.

Shit! Frederik,
stop the car now!

Dad, stop! Stop!

What the hell got into you?

Driving like a maniac!

You're always on my back!
Always!

I drive too fast, I'm too happy at
the wrong moments, I sleep too much!

What are we supposed to do now?

Maybe we can call someone.

Let's see.

We'll be okay.

Frederik!

Dad!

Dad!

People ask me how well
I know my husband.

But what makes us who we are?

Are we shaped by the judgmental
eyes of others?

Or are only we responsible
for the person we become?

Are we just a patchwork of misconstrued
experiences and washed-out memories?

Don't we have free will?

Is our destiny in our DNA?

In the chemistry of our brain?

In the laws of nature?

Does the state of our brain determine
who we are at any given time?

And only that?

Then how come we have such a
strong sense of who we are?

That our experiences and
memories are true?

- Good morning.
- Good morning.

Please be seated.

The case before us today is that of the
prosecution versus Frederik Halling.

Is that you?

Yes... Yes.

Well, that's not the way to do it!

You seem to have forgotten
how to sing along.

Fortunately the fall break is over.

There's no need to be
upset about that. At all.

On the contrary,

it's a privilege,

to reap the fruits of the
tree of knowledge.

We've been banished from Paradise
anyway, so why not fill up our minds?

At our school, you can learn
how to sit on a chair.

Carl, come on.
Get those dog turds down!

Frederik Halling is charged
with gross embezzlement

according to section 278-1,3
of the criminal code,

with a claim for incarceration.

As principal of Saxtorph Private School
he has procured an unlawful economic gain

and used funds entrusted to him to the
amount of no less than 12 million kroner

The money was spent on non-school
related activities,

inflicting a loss on the school
and procuring a gain for himself.

Thanks.

- Hello.
- Hello.

I'm Dr. Gonzalez.
Hi.

- Hello.
- Hi.

Frederik has been scanned.

I'm very sorry.

Afractured skull?

Yes, he has a tumor
in his brain. I'm sorry.

Will it paralyze him, the fracture?

The fracture?

Will he be able to speak?

There is no fracture.

But you just said that
there was a fracture.

He has a tumor in his brain.

It has caused an epileptic
fit that made him fall.

Luckily he has no serious
trauma to the head... Okay?

But you just said
there was a fracture.

I heard you. When I asked you,
you said yes.

He has a tumor in his brain?

Yes, that is correct.

We have transferred him
to the Neurological Ward.

Experts are looking at him now.

I'm sorry.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

"'Do you love me?'
I whisper.

Because I want
reassurance every day.

"I love you more than ever. "

She says gently every day.

"But you don't see me. "

I say as loud as my
voice can carry.

"Yes," she says.

"No, not properly," I say.

"You don't understand.
What you see isn't me at all. "

"Oh yes," she cries.

"It is you. It is you. "

"Then let it be me," I say.

Every day. "

Matilde, sit down.

Is that Frederik they're
taking away?

Why are they taking him away?

What do they want with him?

My client admits that he is to blame
for the loss of said amount.

However, it was not his intention to
break the law and so he pleads not guilty.

My client was of unsound mind
at the time of the crime.

He had a condition comparable
to insanity.

A condition that no longer
affects him, however.

On these grounds,
my client pleads not guilty.

Mom, it's Dad.

Hi!

Hi Dad.

Hi, hi.

Hi.

Hi, Dad.

My, what a scare.

Thank God it's over now.

It's over?

Yes. It's over now.

They're going to give me some medicine
and discharge me tomorrow.

Good.

You can go back to the hotel.

That's great!

Yes.

Jesus Christ!

How can it have gone on for so long?
Incredible.

How hard can it be to put
two and two together?

It's not.

What's going on?

The school is bankrupt.

It's all over. Happy now?

Happy?

Frederik doesn't bring home 12 million
kroner without you benefiting from it.

- 12 million?
- 12 million. Yes.

He has had the school guarantee
loans for at least 12 million.

But he can't do that.

If anyone can,
he sure as hell can!

But he's ill.

This dates back more than a year.

But it can't be him.

It must be someone else, Laust.
It's a misunderstanding.

No, it isn't,
and you damn well know.

This condition you were in,
please try to describe it.

I wasn't aware it
was a condition.

Were you as conscious of your
actions as you are right now?

I remember everything from the period.

- You do?
- Yes.

But you saw nothing wrong in investing
the school's money without their consent?

I didn't think I was doing
anything wrong. I think...

It's a big decision that you
should have discussed...

I think I thought I'd keep it a secret
in order to surprise Laust.

You wanted to surprise him?

- Yes, and make him happy.
- Yes.

To make him...

When you...
I just want to get this right.

When you did the transfer,
which you now know was wrong,

but didn't then,
what was your motivation?

I seems strange to me as well.
I understand why you...

I can't...

I think the excitement was
to see if I would succeed.

Hold on a minute.
Excitement?

To see whether this investment...

So you were driven by excitement?

An adrenaline rush?

My goal was to find money
for the new wing.

I was acting in the best
interest of the school.

Frederik has been scanned and a
tumor has been found in his brain.

Frederik we will administer an
adrenocortical hormone,

that will reduce the
swellings in your brain.

And then some medication
against epilepsy, as well.

So you won't risk having
anymore fits. Okay?

You should go home to Denmark
as soon as possible.

They should be able to operate as
soon as the swellings are down.

Is it cancer?

No. It is almost certainly not cancer.

Good.

The most typical symptom of the strain
of the orbitofrontal area of the brain,

is that your husband may lose all
interest in you and how you are feeling.

Yeah, he could find it harder to restrain
his primitive impulses.

He could erupt in sudden
bursts of anger.

Or no...

And definitely he will deny any
suggestion of illness.

But judging from the
size of the tumor...

You know all about these symptoms,
don't you?

Bernard Bergmann speaking.

It's Mia Halling from last Thursday.

Okay.

I don't know any other lawyers.

I hope it's okay to call?

Of course.

My husband has been charged
with embezzlement.

The police just took him away.
I don't know what to do.

I'm sorry to hear that.

I don't know what to do.

Do the charges hold up?

Absolutely not.

Or... I don't know anything.

I don't know what to do.

Has he got a criminal record?

No.

Well, that's good.

Yes, that's good.

Your husband has the right to have a
lawyer present during questioning.

The police should
have informed you.

I can go there right away.

Thank you.
His name is Frederik Halling.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Time to get up.

- Oh, no.
- Winnie.

How long have you been principal
of Saxtorph Private School?

- For about 10 years.
- 10 years?

- Yes.
- Did you like the responsibility?

Yes, I liked being there.

Have you noticed a change

in your behavior in recent years?

I can see now...

The amount of my private calls
compared to work calls has gone up.

So there's been a shift in relation
between work and private life.

Anything else you've noticed?

I've spent much more on clothes.

- You have?
- Yes.

I mean...

So we're looking at a potential
personality change,

and impulse control disorder.

- Hi there.
- Hi.

Hi. Good to see you.

Hi. Hi.

Frederik, we need to talk
about something.

Yes.

The summer break is over.

I think it's best for you to postpone
coming back to work.

Until we're sure you're well.

What?

If there's the slightest risk that
your condition might cause you

to make the wrong decisions,
then we think it would be best.

Laust, I won't make any
wrong decisions. I'm fine.

- We just want to make sure
you're well enough. - I'm fine.

- We want to be sure that you
are okay, right? - I'm fine...

Yeah, but...

Do you want to keep me
away from the school?

No. But you'll be more
upset than anyone,

if you make any wrong decisions.

- I won't make any wrong decisions.
- But what if?

It's worth considering...

- Are you shutting me out of the school?
- Of course not.

- Are you shutting me out?
- Stop it!

You keep saying it.

Stop being so aggressive.

Ow! Goddamn it!

Nicklas.

There you are.

Why don't you
answer your phone?

Get out, alright?

We have to talk about this.

Just shut up.

What about me, huh?

You guys keep doing crazy stuff.

Of course I think about you.
I always do.

The hell you do!

And that's just how it is.

You know what?
It's not me that has done anything.

I haven't done anything wrong.

I've never been able to trust you.

I've never...

You try to drink yourself to death.
What's wrong with you?

Don't you talk to me like that!

Don't talk like that!

What kind of a mother are you?

Of course you can trust me.

Come here.

No! You can't just yell in my face without
thinking about my feelings!

Come here, sweetie.

- No, don't.
- I know it's difficult.

Go away!

Come here... Come.

Come here.

Laust Saxtorph.

You are chairman of the board
of Saxtorph Private School.

How long have you
known Frederik Halling?

A long time.

Ever since the board hired him.

All those years I thought
I knew who he was.

In the period leading up to Frederik
being diagnosed with a tumor,

did you experience any change
in his behavior or personality?

I didn't notice any changes.

Were you informed
of his condition?

Oh yes, but...

He assured me he felt fine, so I let him
continue his work as principal.

He is...

He was like a son to me.

Can we continue, Laust?

Frederik. What you have
done is unforgivable!

Do you seriously
want me to believe...

Laust...

that bloody tumor is to blame
for you ruining the school?

- Sit down, please.
- You've ruined my life, my wife's life!

Frederik.

Frederik.

Frederik.

Frederik, did you really borrow money
from the school account?

I'm asleep.

Did you borrow money from
the school account?

I invested the school's money.

Why didn't you tell anyone?

Laust or someone?

Ehhh.

The price of copper dropped,
so I started investing in sugar.

But you don't know the first
thing about investments.

Guarantees, forged signatures, Frederik.
Really?

This is Mia.
She's new to the support group.

Her husband has been diagnosed with
a tumor in the orbitofrontal cortex.

This is...

Bernard Bergmann, defense lawyer.
My wife's brain injury affects

her energy, bodily functions and thinking.
We were in a car accident five years ago.

This is Andrea.

Hi. Andrea, biochemist.

My husband had a fall on a
mountaineering trip 18 months ago.

Yes.

He's in a wheelchair now
and has trouble speaking.

I don't understand
how you all cope.

I'm very impressed.
Year after year.

What you have to endure is much
worse than what I endure.

I don't think I belong here.
I think I'd better leave.

No you don't.

My husband is still the man I love.

His smile is the same,
and so are his interests.

He's just got some
physical challenges now.

Your situation is much harder.

Your husband's injury has you unsure of
who you're sacrificing yourself for.

I...

Mia, it's a comfort to me to have
realized that we're a biological system.

Biological system?

Yes. I am a biological system,

rather than a soul with a free will.

It makes it easier for me to cope
when I feel depression coming on.

What do you mean?

Well, I tell myself this:

"Some of my hormones are acting up now,
or some specific brain cells

are active right now,
and that's why I'm depressed. "

And then you put on your running shoes
so the endorphins can cheer you up.

- It passes.
- Good feeling.

We aren't to blame
for our situation.

Yes, come here and sit down.

Sorry. I'm not sure
what came over me.

It's okay.

We in the Brain Injury Support Group
for Families read a lot.

We read about our partner's condition,
but also everything on neuroscience.

We are functionally blind two hours a
day thanks to 'saccadic masking'.

The brain eliminates some visual
impressions when we move our eyes.

Otherwise we'd get seasick.

We think we see everything because
the brain fills out the gaps,

with predictions about
what we would have seen.

Imagine if we were such a couple.

Think of something.

- You want me to?
- Yes, think.

Okay. I'm thinking.

What, here? Now?

But if the predictions of the brain
don't correspond with the situation,

we may make the wrong decisions
at critical times.

That would come as
a complete surprise.

Not due to an oversight,

but because our brain didn't
predict the situation correctly.

What am I thinking about?

Strawberries.

Strawberries?

Berries?

- In Swedish it's 'jordgubbar. '
- Jordgubbar.

- But no, not that.
- Yes it's true.

No.

- What then?
- Pol Pot.

- You're thinking about Pol Pot?
- Mmmh.

- Why?
- The world's tallest dwarf.

Why Pol Pot?

You go from thinking about
sex to thinking about Pol Pot.

Yes.

How did he get into your head?

It's weird.

Mia Halling, you have been
summoned to give evidence,

but as the defendant's wife,
you are not obligated to do so.

Do you want to give evidence?

Yes.

You may proceed.

Thank you.

Mia.

As we're discussing today how a tumor may
have changed your husband's personality,

I'd like you to begin by describing what
he was like when you first met him,

He was absolutely fantastic.

Frederik was a man
people talked about.

He wanted to head a school,
like his father.

And then he got the
job at Saxthorp.

At the age of 35, he was headhunted
to head Saxtorph Private School.

Yes.

Young for a principal.

How did that affect
your private life?

How do you mean?

It sounds stressful.

Did it make him short-tempered,
prone to mood swings? Different?

Most people would react like that.

Under pressure.

- So he was?
- Yes.

Prone to mood swings and short-tempered
even before the tumor affected him.

Look, Frederik sacrificed everything for
that school. Our entire family has.

Bernard was in a coma for days.
And so was Larke.

Everyone thought they
were going to die.

It's Mom.
Look who I brought.

Linus Carlsen.
I thought you'd like that.

We lose our consciousness
if the cerebral activity drops.

When you're unconscious,
the brain gets stuck in the same pathways.

For a patient to come
out of a coma,

the brain must be spurred to explore
other feasible neural pathways.

There, there.
Don't be afraid.

Our conscious mind creates
the image of a fixed self.

If our brain is injured, we don't become
a wrong version of ourselves.

Our brain just produces another self.

First it was Gitte, now it's Dorte.

I can, I can...

I don't understand it.
I can't explain it.

Is it serious?

No.

Well, how serious is it?

More serious than us?

Is it?

No.

What am I going to tell Nicklas?

Huh?

To Nicklas?

Do I tell him his father comes home
reeking of Dorte from the board?

Do I tell him that?

Mia, stop it.

We aren't...

We aren't going to involve
Nicklas in this.

Is that what you want?

Don't.
Stop it!

Okay, is that what you want?
No, stop it!

Is that what you want?

Huh?

Okay.

Nicklas.
Come down here.

Let's have a talk with him.

Pack your things.

Mia.

I want you out before Nicklas
wakes up in the morning.

Mia.

Did you notice any changes in your
husband that you ascribe to the tumor?

Yes.
Three years ago.

He started to come home
from work at normal hours.

That was very unusual for Frederik.

But... cutting down on
a demanding work

life sounds pretty sensible.

It shouldn't take
a brain tumor, or?

No. But he didn't stay late
at the school every night.

He started having dinner at home.

We renovated the entire
house together.

The bathroom and...

It turned out great.

We did all the stuff that other
couples do together.

Yes.

To me it sounds like you're describing an
ordinary life. But that marked a change?

- Yes.
- Yes.

Those were our best years.

He changed to the better.

Those are our three good years.

Bernard's brain injury altered
his hormonal mirror.

And turned him into another man.

They found in him an overproduction
of the fidelity hormone oxytocin.

Which most men
have very little of.

Larke, we were in a car accident.
Do you remember?

You...

You're going to get well.

You're going to get well.

Laerke.

I love you.

I love you.

What did you say?

You spoke.

I love you, too.

I love you.

Frederik's infidelity knocked
me off my feet.

Maybe I couldn't live without him.

Mom.

Mom.

Mom.

What's going on?
Come here.

When an experience is
stored in your memory,

over time your memory
of it will change.

Whenever you recall your memory,
you rewrite it.

Hi.

So your experience of having true
memories is in fact an illusion.

Frederik moved back home.

Perhaps to look after Nicklas.

Perhaps to look after me.

Mia, can you mention anything else

that might indicate that the tumor
started affecting him years ago?

When you read about...

that kind of tumors and symptoms...

It can affect your sexuality.

And I caught Frederik having
an affair three years ago.

Okay.

And why do you think that had
anything to do with his condition?

Well, I'm certain he'd never have
an affair with that woman.

No.

Had he been well.

No.

But we've heard that your husband
had an affair seven years ago, too.

So how, in your opinion, does the affair
three years ago differ from the first?

Well...

I remember how callous he was
when I confronted him about it.

But nobody likes to admit
to having an affair.

That's not what I mean.

He was callous in a strange way...

Pardon me?

- That you didn't recognize.
- Yes.

Yes. He was different.

Frederik, when he was well,
didn't behave like that.

Hello, hello.

You must help me store the
groceries in the fridge. Okay?

Yes.

Only about 5% of our brain is
used to create our conscious mind.

Which shapes our subjective
experience of life.

No, go over to the fridge.

Our brain chooses a fraction of the
sensations constantly thrown at us.

They are combined with relevant memories,
emotions and conceptions.

To create a comprehensible experience
in our conscious mind.

These bags.

Yes.

Place the new ones at the back so they
won't get mixed up with the old ones.

The new ones at the back.

It only takes a few milliseconds
to register a sensation,

but up to half a second to create
a conscious experience,

within a comprehensible context.

That's why we automatically
let go of a scalding pot lid,

but not till the lid hits the floor,
do we realize we've burnt our hand.

So our conscious mind always
lags behind the present.

No... Place the new
ones at the back.

So they won't get mixed
up with the old ones.

Place them at the back.

In there.

Bernard, you're stuck in a loop.
Going round in circles.

Oh, right.

I'm going to kidnap you.

Where to?

Down here.

Mia Halling. Has Frederik made decisions
you didn't understand?

Yes.

Has he been rigid about his
decisions being right?

Well...

The earliest instance I remember
must be our wedding anniversary.

Which was three and
a half years ago.

He bought me a cheese.
That was his present to me.

And he was rigid, as you say,
about it being a romantic and nice gift.

Strange present for a
wedding anniversary, isn't it?

A cheese!

So yes, I think he began making
wrong decisions more often.

Why didn't you react?

I think I repressed it.

You repressed it?

And yet you can say exactly
when you took note of his changes.

Well, I think...

I thought I was the one changing.

That my unrealistic admiration
for him was subsiding.

We rarely experience and
interpret things alike.

When our brain has
a sensory experience,

it triggers associations based on
what is already stored in our brain.

This makes the experience
comprehensible to us.

But as we each store
individual things,

our associations and comprehension
are individual, too.

What's going on in your head?

What are you thinking about now?

Nothing.

You're thinking about
anything at all?

Nothing?

Huh?

Is your head completely empty?

Look.
Isn't it beautiful?

Doesn't it evoke images?

It's completely empty?

There's nothing.

It's just completely empty.

Associations derived from sensory
experiences aren't tied to memories alone.

But also to our conceptions.

Our conception of something can change
our experience of the actual event.

Our actions and choices aren't free.

Our brain uses our stored
knowledge to predict,

and guide us toward what
is best for our survival.

The half a second it takes our impulse
to reach our conscious mind,

is spent on unconscious brain activity,

dictating what reaches our conscious
mind and how we act upon it.

Our choice has already been made
before we experience making it.

The philosopher Spinoza said
that the only difference

between a man and a stone
rolling down a hill,

is that only man believes himself
to be in charge of his destiny.

Mia Halling.
How about his emotional life?

Was his mood monotonous,
and stable,

or did his mood rather
swing dramatically?

The last couple of years
before his surgery,

he could get angry or upset in
a way I've never seen before.

And...

Well, I enjoyed that, too.

He didn't hide his feelings
from me anymore.

He let me in.

Is it your impression that Frederik
was prone to distractions,

such as spontaneous
pleasures and impulses?

Yes, now and then he'd be
more impulsive than usual.

But he bought a Mercedes.
That must have surprised you.

Yes. But it's hard to say when it
wasn't just his old self developing,

because he was impulsive
before the tumor, too.

And when he had in fact
become a different person.

Our eyes only sense.

It's with our brain that we see.

Our brain shapes what we see.

The way we each see, individually.

The same thing goes
for what we hear,

touch, smell and taste.

All that we know,
feel and remember,

even what we see
in front of us,

is the result of a subjective
mental process.

We are our brain.

We are only what's in it.

The impressions made on it,

and its ability to steer
us through life.

Larke, what's up?

Aren't you looking forward to seeing
your friends? Won't it be nice?

No.

Should we put on some music?

No, I don't feel like it.

No.

Yes. Come on.

I don't want to.

Bernard, don't overdo it.

It's so good.

See? You got her
all worked up now.

Isn't it better to see
her like this?

That's a good girl, Larke.

Nicklas.
Come down here for a second.

- What?
- What's this?

It's for Dad's loudspeaker.

It's the school's.
Did you steal it?

Dad can't do anything wrong.

You don't reprimand him
for stealing 12 million.

But if I take something that's
not even for myself.

Dad is seriously ill.
You know that.

My frontal lobes don't work
like they should either.

I'm a teenager.

You sure are.

Make allowances
for my brain, too.

I make allowances
for you constantly.

You think so?

My long-term planning and impulse
control don't work like a grown-up's.

What are you talking about?

I saw your print-out.

What?

It's on the table. When you're 15, you're
just as intelligent as a grown-up.

But areas of your brain aren't
fully developed until you're 20.

The same area as Dad's.

Hey, cut it out.

You can't live like that. You won't be
held accountable for your actions,

because your brain isn't fully developed.
We can't live like that.

That would end in
a chaotic society.

Hi, Nicklas.

Hi.

Thank you for coming. I'm going
to ask you some questions. Okay?

Yes.

Have you experienced
any change in Frederik?

When I read what impulse
control disorder meant,

it all made sense to me.

Can you give us an example?

He didn't behave like an
ordinary grown-up.

In what way?

I remember once...

I was having a girlfriend over.

And my parents let her in.

When I came down, my dad was
saying nasty things to her.

And he didn't do that
before he got ill?

I see...

Did you experience
any other changes?

Before, he was never home.

And he was always stressed out.

But then three years ago...

He became fun to be around.

He was fun?

We started goofing around.

We made bonfires and
watched Formula One together.

What makes you think this
was caused by the tumor?

Well...

The tumor gave him
like a teenage brain.

A teenage brain?

Like mine.

We became like... friends.

Before, he was just
a man who came,

and left for work and
fought with my mom.

And that was more or less it.

It's so nice that
everyone could come.

Mia has got something
interesting to show us.

Yes.

Thanks for coming to my home.

You're welcome.

I brought this.

What's that, Pac-Man,
Pac-Man and Pac-Man?

Yes. Yes.

How many triangles are there?

Good question.

One, two...
At least two.

Three.

I would say more.

There are none.

None?

Our brain puts the fragments together
to form a whole, but there is no whole.

It's an illusion.

Our brain leads us to believe we see
a white triangle, but there is none.

Oh, right.

Exactly.

Am I not right in saying...

That it's our ability to perceive
fragments as a whole,

that leads us to believe
we have a free will?

But we don't notice all the unconscious
processes that precede our thoughts,

and our decisions,

so we think we choose more
freely than we really do.

We imagine that we
have a free will,

but it's our brain that instantly creates
cohesive wholes like ours just did,

when we saw the illusion
of the Kanizsa Triangle.

It's utterly fascinating.

I'll pass it on.

I feel we have no choice at all.

It's been seven years since Katrine
was diagnosed with a tumor,

and was told she needed
surgery in her left temple.

Close to one of the brain's
language areas.

The evening before her surgery,

we both knew she might lose
her power of speech.

We lay there embracing each
other before we went to sleep.

She suddenly raised
her head and said:

"Maybe I won't ever be able
to say I love you again. "

And then she said:

"If I can't tell you again,

please always remember
that I told you tonight. "

That's the way it was.

Just breathe naturally.

You're doing great.

Getting sleepy, Frederik?

Say good night to
your wife then.

Good night, Mia.

You can say good
night to him now.

Good night.

Take a few deep breaths and
you should be asleep soon.

There you go.

He's asleep.

We'll take good care of him.

I love you.

Hi, Dad.

Frederik, don't pull it off.

Brain Surgeon Jan Sittelman.

What did you remove
from the defendant?

This is a picture taken
during the surgery.

This is Frederik's brain.

And here is the meningioma.

Before we removed it.

Meningiomas arise
from the meninges,

which are the membranous
layers around the brain.

The brain is intact but under pressure
caused by the meningioma.

Can you give us concrete examples

of how the tumor or meningioma
has affected the defendant?

It's complex, because to a
certain extent the brain

is able to compensate for injuries.

The brain is a big network.

Other parts of the network
can take over functions.

So even though you can determine
when the tumor started growing,

you can't determine exactly
when it started affecting him?

Yes, you could say that.

You could say that.

When you look at the brain scan,
can you determine,

the exact symptoms the
defendant might have?

Yes or no?

No, not precisely.

So the exact symptoms
can't be determined

by either the location or
size of a meningioma?

Frederik, is your sex drive
stronger than usual?

Frederik.

Hmm...

I think we have a
fairly normal sex life.

For a married couple.

What do you mean?

We don't have sex.

That's not true.

But we don't.

We lost the spark
after Nicklas was born.

But we didn't.

We're just too busy
and too tired at night.

I asked you if your sex drive
was stronger than usual?

I don't know what "usual" is.

Our sex life stopped ages ago.

That's not true.

I've done my best.

That's just it. Your perfectionism
suffocates everything.

Why didn't you stick to
your fuck buddies, then?

Maybe I should have.

After he was discharged,
he tried to rape me.

- That's not true.
- Yes. it is.

I kissed him and then...

a few seconds later...

He was ramming away at me.

I didn't recognize him.
He was like a horny wild dog.

That feeling of...

Frederik, any thoughts
on what Mia just said?

Well...

We are husband and wife.

We'll make it through this,
won't we?

I think I know what we
both need right now.

Stop.

Stop.

Stop.

Come on.

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

No, don't...
don't wake up Nicklas.

Mom?

Go back to your room!

What's going on?

What are you doing to Mom?

- It's okay, Nicklas.
- Stop!

Stop it!

I'm sorry.

Don't apologize.
You were just protecting me.

Right?

Go to your room.

Mia?

Mia. Come here.

Mia.

Come here.

What happens to the brain's equilibrium
when a tumor shifts it?

Our brain's basic driving
force ensures homeostasis.

That is, it keeps our
organism stable.

It's too strong to be overruled.

If the driving force that
regulates our breathing.

gets coupled with the constant washing
of hands, as seen in OCD patients,

it's easy to see how wrong
couplings in the brain

can push you in
the wrong direction.

So if the defendant's
impulse control

is destabilized, could it make
him invest in the same manner

as an OCD patient who washes
his hands constantly?

The brain is a network,

in which billions of
nerve cells communicate.

If parts of this network
stop working,

and it doesn't take much
to destabilize it,

it's not odd that a tumor can make
people act against the norm.

So a tumor can make people
act against the norm?

Yes.

- Then you became principal of
Saxtorph Private School. - Mmm.

You may recognize these photos.

As a new principal, you didn't have
direct access to school accounts.

How did you get that?

I bought these 12
Wegner chairs online.

That I...

I bought most of the stuff online.

But I was highest bidder for
those for two days. It was great.

But Frederik...

I just waited, and an hour
before the auction ended,

a new bid was placed.

I'd really like to move on now.

I'd never have forgiven myself...

To those accounts.

Mia speaking.

It's Bernard Bergmann.

Hi.

I called to say that an appraiser
will be stopping by on Thursday.

The school is entitled to all
of Frederik's belongings,

and half of your
shared belongings.

I know...

It's dreadful.

Yes.

I'll be there...

But you have to
be there as well.

I don't know if Frederik will
ever be himself again.

The doctors say he'll get better now,
but no one knows how well he will be.

He's a different person.

I'm actually afraid of him.

Mia.

I know you can handle
the appraiser's visit.

How do you know that?

Because it's much easier than
caring for your ill husband.

and you do that admirably...

Thank you.

I'm having a glass of wine.

Laerke's asleep.
Are you having wine as well?

Mmm.

How about a toast then?

Good idea.

Cheers.

Cheers.

You're being put to the test.

But you aren't even considering
leaving him.

I think that's fantastic.

Yes.

That's the first thing
I noticed about you.

Your fidelity.

I think the way you
support your wife,

and never leave
her side is fantastic.

When you've chosen to be with each other,
it can't be any other way.

I feel the same way.

We're alike when it
comes to fidelity.

Not many people could muster
the same kind of fidelity.

That's how I feel.

What are you laughing at?

- What is it?
- What? I don't know.

Free will.

Can a tumor override
your free will?

Yes well...

That's a good question.

Do we have a free will?

I don't know.

Who determines the
choices we make?

Who are you?

No, but...

At the end of the day
we and our brains

are made up of millions of
nerve cells that communicate.

In otherwords,
we are pure chemistry.

So we're just following
the laws of nature?

Everything is predetermined.

Cause and effect, causality.
Is that it?

It's a matter of interpretation.

I think it's very deterministic to
think that you are who you are.

That's nonsense.

You're not the same man
you were ten years ago.

I know.

Physically, all the cells in your body
have been replaced several times.

Your mindset has changed, too.
You've learnt a lot.

Your brain has changed.

In the time we've been talking here,
the brain has formed new synapses.

In the time we've been here, new brain
connections have been formed.

That is how fast we and
our brains change?

We are pure chemistry.
We change.

So are we controlled by our
chemistry or our free will?

It's all us.

There is no conflict.

Let me rephrase the question.

So if the defendant is pure chemistry,
is he accountable for his actions,

if they spring from his chemistry
and not his free will?

You could say...

That the will lies in
the chemistry.

If the chemistry is affected,
so is the thing we call the will.

Do you feel that your partner has
become more or less dominating?

- She decides everything.
- Like what?

Whether I can drive.

I can't.

Whether I can go online.
I can't.

She won't let me go shopping,
or have any money.

I can't even call anyone.

I'm going insane.

Why does she restrict
you like that?

Ask her.
I've asked her many times.

She always gives me
the same answer:

"You don't understand.
You're ill. "

But you don't feel ill?

Well...

Do I seem ill to you?

How would you like to
be called ill all the time?

How does it affect you to hear...

It infuriates me!

Of course it infuriates me.

It infuriates me when people...

I'm a school principal. She goes
on and on about how ill I am.

Wonderful furniture.
Do you intend to keep it?

Yes.
As much as possible.

Yes.

Have you had this
chair appraised?

The designer isn't
very well-known.

It's Pierre Paulin.

It's his Oyster chair.

All the receipts are in my name.

We have to find a
basis for distribution.

If you shared Frederik's
larger salary,

and spent it on Danish
designer furniture,

the school is entitled to half
of your salary in that period.

But I collected this furniture
myself over many years.

But my client is still entitled to half,
if Frederik's salary paid for it.

But you can't!

Yes, we can.

Let's go over this later, okay?

Okay?

Sure.

Oh, well...

Did you do this yourselves?

Yes.

We did it together,
Frederik and I.

The price just dropped a couple
of hundred thousand kroner there.

It's only two years ago.
It's all new.

Yes, but bathrooms should
be done by professionals.

You want it to be flush.

Could you keep some of it, like that,

and tear down the rest?

Yes, maybe...

Go ahead. I just need
to stay here for a bit.

You're going to stay for a bit?

Yes.

Mia.

Nature's will...

Consultant Psychiatrist Herdis Lebech.
I'd like to go into your diagnosis.

Please tell us what symptoms
you found in the defendant.

Yes.

We found an adherence
disorder, emotional lability,

that is sudden bursts
of anger or sorrow.

- Pardon me for interrupting.
- Yes?

Could that be mood swings?

Sure, you could say mood swings.

The defendant suffered from those early
on in his marriage, before the tumor.

Irritability, aggressive outbursts,
unrestrained impulse-driven behavior...

So selfish, risk-prone behavior?

Have we heard about that
before the tumor? Yes.

Long-windedness, perseveration,
that is sticking to a linguistic pattern,

and being unable to move on.

He's shown signs of that, too.

So you're dedicated...

Pardon me?

No, go on.

Thank you.

And finally,
altered sexual behavior.

For instance hyposexuality
or perversions.

Can that lead to having affairs?

Yes.

The defendant had an
affair seven years ago.

Could that be related
to the tumor?

No, it's too long ago.

- It's too long ago? Okay.
- Yes.

Good.

Herdis Lebech,
how can you be sure that

the defendant didn't
have these traits

before the tumor,
because many things point to that?

To assess that, you need a mental
examination done before he got ill,

and we haven't one.

So we don't know if the defendant
had these traits before the tumor.

Thus it's unclear whether the tumor is
the cause of the symptoms. Correct?

10 of hearts.

That'll cost you 500.

No.

This is all I've got.

Thanks.

Why did you choose
that pile again?

It has the highest prizes.

I don't want to be here all day.

The 3 of spades...
earns you 100 kroner.

The Queen of clubs.

That'll cost you 1,000 kroner.

Let me just pick one more...

No, the test is over, Frederik.

- Your mother arranged it all?
- All of it.

- Hi.
- Hi.

Hi. Thank you for inviting us.

Of course.

- Have you been to the day
center today? - Yes.

What did you do?

You know what?
I don't remember.

"You know what"
is a good pression.

Our language is
rich with pressions.

Expressions.

Expressions?

It's "expressions".

Thank you.

- There's pie.
- And the little ones...

- That's mozzarella.
- Ah.

Would you like some?

There are two of them
and that's unusual...

Frederik? Do you think
Bernard is any good?

What do you mean?

Will he get you acquitted?

Ah...

Will you get him acquitted?

If I do, it's nature's will.

We hope the prosecution will agree to
subject Frederik to a mental examination.

That's the plan, anyway.

Fingers crossed.

It applies to everyone in prison.

They're...

mentally ill, the lot of them.

Only 400 years ago
people thought...

They thought that
the mentally ill

had made a pact
with the Devil.

They were burnt alive in
front of the whole village.

Because they were
mentally ill, you see?

Yes.

Of course you don't
burn people today.

Nor do you put them in prison
just because they're mentally ill.

Based on these symptoms,
I wonder:

Shouldn't Frederik have
realized he wasn't well,

and informed the board?

No.

No. Denial of illness is one of
the symptoms, so he couldn't.

But shouldn't Frederik have grasped the
consequences of his actions and stopped?

No.

His condition made him unable

to understand the consequences
of his actions. He couldn't.

Ah.

So the tumor made Frederik
unable to act responsibly?

Yes.

Is Frederik well today?

Our tests show that Frederik's ability
to concentrate, his empathy,

and structural abilities are
above average today.

Of his own accord, he has applied for
positions as a substitute teacher.

In vain, as far as I gather.

So, right now,

Frederik is well?

Yes, I'd say so.

I'm betraying my husband.

I am my brain, and my brain
is all fat and synapses.

I am a biological system
and so are you.

Yes, but he's ill.

These processes started
millions of years ago.

It's all predetermined.

But you're betraying your wife.

Yes.

But if it happens,
it's nature's will.

And nothing is stronger than the
laws of nature. Am I wrong?

No.

We're irreproachable.

We can't help it.

No.

No.

Without guilt.

I've got the result of the
mental examination.

- Well?
- What?

What does it say?

Let's see.

"Frederik Halling suffers from
an orbitofrontal syndrome,

caused by a brain tumor. "

Okay.

"Frederik Halling was
presumably insane

at the time of the
illegal transactions. "

Congratulations.

Hi.
Just put it down there.

Let me introduce my lawyer, Bernard,
and my wife, Mia.

- Hi.
- Hi.

My name's Khayatt.
Welcome to the block.

Yes.

Great.

Oh, shit.

Frederik, give me a hand, will you?

- What?
- Can you help?

With what?

Raking.

I need to take a piss.

Nicklas, help me get this done.

Dad's doing better,
don't you think?

Now he needs to pee,
or sleep, or watch TV.

His impulse control
is much better.

Don't you think?

No. Not at all.

Can't you see that
Dad is getting better?

Let's see just how well he gets.

It's time for the prosecution's
closing arguments.

Please proceed.

Thank you, Your Honor.

I've met the defendant
in the course of this day.

And he strikes me
as a dedicated man,

who no doubt has done a lot
of good as school principal.

Still, I believe that he
quite deliberately

embezzled the school funds
with criminal intent.

The defendant ascribes the embezzlement
to his tumor-induced personality change.

The defense has tried
to prop up this claim,

with fumbling evidence given by
his fragile wife and doting son.

But the transaction
trail identifies

the defendant as
the perpetrator.

And in light of the complex
crime there is no doubt,

that the defendant didn't embezzle
without criminal intent.

Does it work?
I can't hear anything.

It's set to phono.

Porno?

Hi Freddy.
Nobody's selling porno here.

Hey!

Alright, man!

Freddy, you have a visitor.

- Hi.
- Hi.

Do you want a record?

"Skylight"?
No, I want to talk to you.

The prosecution claims the mental
examination is insufficiently reviewed.

Meaning what?

It will delay the case. He wants the
medico-legal council to review it.

Okay.

The medico-legal council?

The highest you can go in the Danish
system. Nothing over or equal.

The medico-legal council will do its own
review of the mental examination.

Is there any chance they might conclude
that I wasn't temporarily insane?

Let's just hope they come
to the same conclusion.

Do you understand?

Yes.

Is Mia home?

Yes.

I'll go and tell her.
See you. Good luck.

Freddy, my man. How would you
like a permanent job with us?

How are you going to survive
without this house?

Well, we're going to sell everything and
buy a boat and sail around the world.

- Henning.
- Yes?

Henning, enough of your voyage
around the world.

- You'll never do it.
- Lalalalala.

We're sick of hearing about it.

No, we've got it all mapped out.
We're heading south from the Caribbean...

I've heard this a million times.

Before you come over,
Mia always says:

"Please don't let Henning talk about
sailing around the world again. "

What are you saying to me?

- What do you mean?
- Why is she talking to me like that?

What's the problem? Why are you angry?
We're sick of hearing about it.

Just because we want
to see the world?

I don't want to hear about your voyage
until I read it on a card from Fiji.

Until then, shut the fuck up!

Frederik, stop.
He can't help it.

Excuse me?

He says one thing
and does another.

Our impulses to act are formed
in another area of the brain,

than the area that regulates
what we say and do.

Even the slightest injury
to the frontal lobes,

impairs that connection.

There is no neural contact
between words and actions.

Are you calling me
brain-damaged?

Henning.

No.

But that's what she's...

She says I'm brain-injured.

No, she says you're an idiot.

And she's right.

- Let's have some wine.
- Fuck yeah.

No more wine for Frederik.

- What?
- What are you talking about?

Let's do it.
I'll get some wine.

I'm coming along.

It's great to see that
Frederik is well again.

Well?
What do you mean?

He's well and that's more important
than your having to move.

But he's not well, far from it.

Before Frederik got ill,
he wasn't like this at all.

Mia, I don't know
how to say this...

What?

Maybe Frederik wasn't the perfect
man that you remember him as.

You know?

You don't understand.

I'm just trying to help.

I know,
but you don't understand.

Okay, I'm trying to
do you a favor.

You don't understand, okay?

We've also heard the defendant's close
friend and chairman, Laust Saxtorph,

who didn't notice any changes
prior to the charge.

Finally, most important of all,

we have the medico-legal
council's evaluation.

They conclude that the defendant's
mental state at the time of the crime

didn't prevent him from being aware
of the consequences of his actions.

So his actions were deliberate.

The huge sum is an aggravating factor
as is the long period of time,

as well as the fact that the defendant
has abused his position as principal.

I therefore see no grounds
for a suspended sentence.

As 12 million kroner were embezzled
the defendant should be sentenced

to three and a half years in prison.

"The medico-legal council doesn't find
that Frederik Halling was mentally unsound

at the time of the crime.

He was...

fully aware of the consequences of his
actions and as such accountable. "

This means that
medico-legal council

disagrees with the conclusion
of the mental examination.

But the mental examination stated...

They say your mental abilities were
reduced at the time of the crime,

but that you were well enough
to resist your selfish impulses.

But this isn't a verdict.

What if they are wrong?
If their evaluation is wrong?

Let's say they made
a mistake, then what?

We contact the council, and tell
them they overlooked something.

But that requires that we present new
facts they haven't been privy to.

I've told them everything.

Is there anyone you've worked closely with
in recent years that we could interview?

Someone who can confirm that
your behavior has changed?

No. Well, the three secretaries
at school, but...

But they all work for Laust and the new
management. That won't get us anywhere.

I could go straight to Laust.

No, that won't do.

You don't have to pretend
to understand me.

I do understand you.

Aren't you well enough to know that your
empathy and emotions are limited?

No, I'm trying to understand you.

But your brain prevents you.

But I do understand you.

You have to say that.

I understand you.
I understand you.

Acknowledgment of illness, Frederik.

I understand you.
I understand you.

You keep repeating yourself.

You're perseverating.

You're not well.

Why aren't you with Bernard?

If I weren't here,
you could be happy together.

Everyone would be happy.

Don't say that.

But...

You'd make a great couple.
I can tell.

- You'd make a really great couple.
- Stop saying that.

I'm just stating a fact.

I understand if you don't want
to have sex with me again.

I understand.

I think you have to leave me.

I'm dragging you down.

I'm dragging you down.

Let's talk about it later.

Talk about it later?

That means you've
made up your mind.

You're going to leave me.

I can't...

I can't...

I can't... I can't turn back
time and undo things.

I've said I'm sorry for each...

If I'm ill, I'm ill, but I can't
feel it myself, damn it.

This is a stupid time. We're in the
middle of moving... Sorry.

Now for the defense's
closing arguments.

Thank you, Your Honor.

All day we have scrutinized
the life of a man,

whose life was turned upside
down because of a tumor.

Which changed the defendant's
personality and decision-making ability.

I claim that we have proven today,

that the defendant's free will,

and ability to act with intent
has been suspended.

The surgeon showed us
there actually was

a tumor in the defendant's brain.

Both the defendant's wife,

his son and the
psychiatrist explained,

how the tumor changed his personality
in a manner he could not control.

The defendant's actions have indeed
been devastating to the school.

But could he have
acted any other way,

with the tumor's
strain on his brain?

Hi.

I was just passing by.
It's nice to see you.

It is?

Our life has changed, too.

We've moved.

We've lost our pensions.
The car...

My furniture... everything.

I trusted Frederik more than
anyone else in the world.

But so did I.
We didn't know he was ill.

Then one day he
goes to the bank,

and robs the school
of 850,000 kroner.

We'd had coffee and cake and had
discussed the future of the school,

and then he marches on down
and robs us of 850,000 kroner.

He must have known it would
mean the end of the school!

What's going on in his head?
He knew very well!

He was a different person, Laust.

The bastard!

He was ill. But the tumor is gone,
and he's slowly getting better.

He's getting better.
He really is.

Mia, we felt sorry for you.
He couldn't stand being with you.

I know.

He said you bored him.

- Oh, did he?
- Yes.

He said there was
no back and forth.

But all that changed, didn't it?

In the years up to his diagnosis,
he liked staying home with me.

After the suicide stuff.

He had to stay home
to look after you.

What suicide?

Your suicide attempt
in the kitchen.

Don't you remember?
Three years ago in the kitchen.

I didn't attempt suicide.
He said that?

Everybody knew.

Everybody thinks I
attempted suicide?

There were pills everywhere.

There weren't any pills.

Oh, come on.
Mia, for God's sake.

There weren't any pills.

There weren't any pills, Laust!

Can you give us a hand?

Grab the speaker, please.
Thanks.

It must be terrible not to be
able to enjoy music.

I'd do anything to
get that joy back.

I thought the speaker was broken.

Only sounds came out of it.
No coherent melodies.

No.

Let me take that.

People underestimate hearing.

I don't understand people who spend
a fortune on expensive homes.

Expensive mansions,
stuff like that.

But they don't spend
a dime on speakers.

The focus is on the sense of sight.

They never consider how
ugly their stereo sounds.

Have you considered electrostatics?

That's a tough choice...

Consultant Psychiatrist
Herdis Lebech, explained

the well-known symptoms
of this diagnosis,

including impulse control disorder.

So no, the defendant couldn't
have acted any other way,

because the tumor forced
him to act this way.

The question before us is:

Can the defendant's
actions be ascribed

to the tumor in his
brain and only that?

And does that justify punishing him now?
Now that it's removed?

No. I claim acquittal according to
section 16 of the criminal code:

"Anyone deemed temporarily insane,

at the time of the crime
is not to be punished. "

I rest my case. Thank you.

I will set down the case for judgment
and deliver it later today.

I expect to deliver
judgment in an hour.

Khayatt is awesome.

He sells these old records
in the parking lot.

You help him, right, Dad?

Your dad shouldn't sell
junk in the parking lot.

He's a principal, not one of them.

Relax, will you?

He just wants to help.

When I had my stomach pumped,
what did you tell people?

- About Dorte?
- No.

What did you tell people?

I think I said you'd
had one too many.

You said I'd swallowed pills.

You said I attempted suicide because
I couldn't live without you.

That's not true.

That's just not true.

Even though that was the case.

That's why I came home.

To look after you.

So that's why you cut
down on your work?

That's why you changed?

I don't know that I changed.

So now you didn't change
because of the tumor?

I think we're in for a tough
day in court tomorrow.

Darling,
I did it because I love you.

You love me?
You're pathetic.

Okay.

So I'm pathetic.
Fine, I'm pathetic.

From Greek 'pathetikos'.
Sensitive and passionate.

Just like our relationship in fact.

I'd say.

I'm sensitive and passionate when it
comes to you, darling. I really am.

I am.

I'm having an affair with Bernard.

I can't live with you anymore.

You're having an affair with Bernard?

Yes.

Our... my lawyer?

Yes.

Yes. He's going to divorce Larke
and put her in an institution.

Don't you think you're
imagining things?

Huh?

Mia.

I think you're imagining things.
Bernard isn't like that.

I think you're imagining it.

After the trial I'm going to
move in with Bernard.

I understand if you feel a need
to punish me somehow.

But this, Mia...

Why do you have
to say that crap?

Dad.

Dad.

Nicklas.

Frederik.

Frederik.

Nicklas.

Nicklas.

Do you think he
went to Khayatt's?

Why didn't you just jump in
front of a train back then?

So I didn't have to find you
with the tequila and the pills!

There weren't any pills, Nicklas.

Stop that!

Nicklas.

I can't talk now.

I need to talk to you.

Not now.
I have an important call.

Bernard.

Did you tell Frederik we
were having an affair?

He told you?

It would be very
unprofessional of me.

Would I sleep with my client's wife?
What the hell were you thinking?

I'm sorry.
It just burst out.

Don't go saying that about me.

Sorry,
but I have to make this call.

We'll meet again, won't we?

Yes, tomorrow in court.

But what about afterwards?

Whatever you're thinking,
my answer is no.

There's never been anything between us,
and there never will be.

Excuse me,
but I have to make a call now.

People ask me how well
I know my husband.

But what makes us who we are?

Help!

Are we shaped by the
judgmental eyes of others?

Or are only we responsible
for the person we become?

Are we just a patchwork of misconstrued
experiences and washed-out memories?

Just pee here, honey.

No, I want a proper toilet.

Dad?

- Dad?
- Frederik.

Or is everything predetermined?

Is our destiny in our DNA?

In the chemistry of our brain?

In the laws of nature?

Does the chemical state of our brain
determine who we are at any given time?

And only that?

The Court finds:

Frederik Halling is sentenced to three
years and three months in prison.

The verdict is unanimous.

Please be seated.

The Court finds, in accordance
with the defendant's admission,

supported by the other evidence,

the defendant guilty of
embezzlement as charged.

Notably the evaluation of the
medico-legal council as well as the

evidence given doesn't prove to the court
that the defendant committed the crime

under the influence of
orbitofrontal syndrome.

Therefore, the Court finds that the
defendant was not temporarily insane

at the time of the crime and so,

the defendant is found guilty.

In consideration of the embezzled
sum the sentence is determined

to three years and
three months in prison.

The defendant is also liable
to pay the claimed.

We accept the verdict.

Duly noted.

The Court is adjourned.

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