{"id":17305,"date":"2022-09-20T19:52:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T23:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17305"},"modified":"2022-09-20T19:52:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T23:52:36","slug":"netflix-recommendation-the-lorenskog-disappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17305","title":{"rendered":"Netflix recommendation: ‘The Lorenskog Disappearance’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=2g89IxGIFy8\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have yet another opportunity <\/strong>to recommend to you (assuming you have a Netflix subscription) a Norwegian miniseries on which I did translation work. In actual fact, not much of my own work made it into The L\u00f8renskog Disappearance<\/em> in its final form \u2013 our team worked mainly on treatments and scene outlines (as far as I remember), and a lot of our stuff seems to have gotten cut. But I still think it\u2019s an intriguing series, and I recommend it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Hagen (his having the same name as Robert Duval\u2019s character in \u201cThe Godfather\u201d is purely coincidental) was and is one of the richest men in Norway, an energy tycoon. He and his wife Anne-Elisabeth lived in a modest home in a community east of Oslo. Their security was minimal. On October 31, 2018, he came home from work early, having been unable to reach Anne-Elisabeth by phone. He found her missing, but there was a note on a chair, demanding a ransom through an obscure form of cryptocurrency and warning him not to contact the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He did contact the police though, and what followed has often been second-guessed. Worried that the kidnappers were watching the house, they did not send in a forensic team immediately, leaving time for evidence to disappear or be removed. They made a mistake in their text communications with the ransomers. Tom paid the ransom, in spite of the fact that he\u2019d gotten no proof of life from the kidnappers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne-Elisabeth was never seen again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After time passed with no further breakthroughs, suspicion began to turn toward Tom. It was learned that the marriage had been strained. Anne-Elisabeth had contacted a divorce lawyer, who thought the couple\u2019s prenuptial agreement, heavily weighted toward Tom\u2019s interests, could easily be broken. Tom was arrested, but the case against him was weak. Eleven days later the court ordered his release, and the investigation has stalled ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The L\u00f8renskog Disappearance<\/em> is a docudrama. Many of the characters are fictionalized. We view the story through the viewpoints of four different groups: The police, the reporters (two episodes), the lawyers, and the informers. This produces a Rashomon <\/em>kind of story, in which the same people and events are viewed from different perspectives. Particularly interesting are two reporters \u2013 a man who may be biased against Tom by his experience as the child of an abusive father, and a woman who may be biased toward him by her experience as the child of a Soviet political prisoner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a secret that The L\u00f8renskog Disappearance<\/em> does not offer any final solutions. What it does offer is a fascinating examination of how we view the stories we see on the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the trailer above is dubbed, the version I watched on Netflix was subtitled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have yet another opportunity to recommend to you (assuming you have a Netflix subscription) a Norwegian miniseries on which I did translation work. In actual fact, not much of my own work made it into The L\u00f8renskog Disappearance in its final form \u2013 our team worked mainly on treatments and scene outlines (as far … Continue reading Netflix recommendation: ‘The Lorenskog Disappearance’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[1998,2047,4349,4350,3187],"class_list":["post-17305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-netflix","tag-norway","tag-the-lorenskog-disappearance","tag-tom-hagen","tag-translation"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17308,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305\/revisions\/17308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}