A Second Chance Page #4

Synopsis: How far would decent human beings be willing to go, when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust? With "A Second Chance", Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen have crafted another startling yet moving drama about how easily we lose our grasp on justice, when confronted with the unthinkable, and life as we know it is hanging by a thread.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Susanne Bier
  2 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
35
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
Year:
2014
102 min
498 Views


Andrew, are you there?

Andreas? - Are you there?

Andreas?

Good morning.

Hello. Please.

- Well, you are early.

- It's just me.

- Should I come back later?

- No, no.

There are no signs of external damage.

But CT and X-ray

was very revealing.

Here is the child's head.

The fresh bleeding derived from

a subdural hematoma, which is the most evident here.

Can you see it?

What did you say?

There was a bleeding here

under the hard meninges.

There is also a hygrom,

a fluid-filled cavity, -

- Derived from

one or more previous bleedings.

However, the fresh bleeding

has beaten the child to death.

Let me show you here ...

I have taken a picture of the torso.

There are some broken ribs,

characteristic of shake violence.

Where the offender sticked his fingers

in the body and shaked the baby.

What we are dealing with is

shaken baby syndrome.

Now, I am not the police,

but this is a manslaughter.

Andreas?

Andreas?

Andreas?

What the hell are you doing here? Why are

you sitting here for? Have you been there?

You are bleeding.

What did you do to your fingers?

Hey, hey. What is happening?

I know it's hard now.

I want to help you.

Andreas, dammit.

Get out of here!

- Hello.

- Hello, darling.

Andreas?

What's happening?

What are you doing?

- What are you doing? Your hand!

- Mother! Sit down.

Sit down. Stop!

Andrew, what is happening?

Would you tell ...

Andreas?

What have you done

Alexander's body?

Who the hell is Alexander?

It's not him. I

could tell if he was dead.

Hello.

Yes ...

What are saying?

You came again.

You're so fine. You're so fine.

If you want to get rid of me,

you need to try harder.

Where is Sonny?

I should have figured it out sooner,

but the idea was too crazy.

I thought,

it was the right thing to do.

It was the right thing to do.

Of course it wasn't

the right thing to do.

I didn't know,

Anna ...

When I woke up in the night,

and he screamed, it was...

He screamed for help.

He screamed for help.

They will all understand,

what you have done.

But he should be back

with his mother.

She'll never get out of it.

He'll go to a foster family.

There's nothing you can do about it.

It's not your business, okay?

You're redundant,

but you probably won't go to prison.

These are extenuating circumstances.

You'll certainly get a suspended sentence.

I'll have to tell her yourself.

Take me over to her.

- Here.

- Sonny ...

Hello.

Hello.

Sanne...

Sorry.

Are you lost?

- No.

- My mom forgot screws.

I've got a hammer.

I just can't get it out.

What's your name?

Sonny.

Are you sure you're not lost?

Yes, I work here.

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Anders Thomas Jensen

Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972) is a Danish screenwriter and film director. His film Election Night won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. more…

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