How soon is too soon?
Especially to Scandinavian audiences, where violence of this scale is uncommonly rare.
Greengrass, of course, has been down this ripped-from-the-headlines path before.
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Its still a harrowingly effective movie, to be sure.
But its also more of an emotionally manipulative one, too.
His grievance is his countrys open-armed acceptance of refugees and foreigners, who he believes are poisoning Norways identity.
The bomb explodes, killing eight people.
Then, he sets off for his second and far deadlier act of mayhem that day.
Sixty-nine of them would soon be dead.
More than 200 others would be left injured and scarred for life.
