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When trying to encapsulate the latest work from director Nicolas Winding Refn, Copenhagen Cowboy, it would be a grave mistake to give too much focus to its plot. This is because, up to a point, what is happening matters far less than the manner in which it is all playing out. One could describe how it follows a young woman named Miu (Angela Bundalovic) who is on a journey of revenge in the seedy underbelly of Copenhagen, where Refn himself is from, and it would sound like just another generic action thriller. The same could still be said for the director’s other recent series, Too Old to Die Young, which twisted the genre beats of a crime drama in ways that were equal parts macabre and mesmerizing.
While each is of similar quality due to Refn’s consistent visual and tonal command, they also remain distinct works that play more as companion pieces to the others that see him continuing to experiment. Even as Copenhagen Cowboy is frequently more restrained in its violence and gore, it is still a dynamic and disturbing experience that cares less about any expectations some may have for its structure as it does about submerging us in its borderline supernatural settings that dip its toes into the surreal before diving in. Like the scene of a car hurtling through the darkness of an isolated road, there is a beauty to the experience that we launch headlong into. This makes it a plunge into a peril that requires patience and willingness to give yourself over to the experience; even as it may not be for all tastes, it is still one absolutely worth opening your mind to.
All of this begins with pigs, a recurrent mud-dwelling motif in the series, united in their piercing squealing that serves as the punctuation for the murder by strangulation we are only given glimpses of. It fades into the background during the introduction of Miu prior to this killing when she is being ferried to a remote location, the first of several that feel more like hellish amalgamations of reality than anything, but it won’t be the last we hear of the screaming sows. Interpretations abound for what these animals are meant to represent; their cries are often merged with scenes of sex, violence, and sometimes both. This is, after all, a Refn production, and when has he ever been one to skimp on showing humanity’s penchant for depravity? There is less of it here, coming in short bursts of blood and brutality until one climactic fight that resembles more of a deadly dance, but there’s still plenty of muck to wade through. One could even read the series as being about Refn acting as an outside alien artist of sorts, looking upon the audience as identical to the sows gobbling up whatever new grotesque and violent kaleidoscopic vision he places in front of us.
He even appears in the show, saying nothing and merely watching the dark absurdity before him. This could easily be categorized with the dreaded descriptor of “pretentious,” but it maintains a persistent sense of humor that should put any such dismissals to bed. For any remaining ways that his detractors may label Refn as an auteur whose head is up his own ass and doing the same old shtick, the increasingly silly subversions that populate the story give it a necessary, refreshing gallows humor. When a hitman unexpectedly appears as everything is beginning to draw to a close and says, with a completely straight face, that he is more than just a killer but a “good listener, too,” the joke lands perfectly. It is all part of how Copenhagen Cowboy takes itself deathly seriously at bleak moments while also not too much so in others, a fun push and pull that is woven throughout everything. As we begin to discover that there is more to Miu than meets the eye in that she may actually command the power of both life and death, the gravity of it all is intermixed with an almost gregarious vulgarity. The fact that anyone could stumble upon the series from other Netflix offerings is hilarious on its own. The only similarity one could humorously stretch for is that Miu has a bowl cut that makes her resemble Will Byers from Stranger Things, though that is where any similarities end.
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