Thomas Vinterberg’s Un altro giro (2020) centers on four middle-aged high school teachers—Martin, Tommy, Nikolaj, and Peter—who embark on a pseudoscientific experiment. Inspired by a theory attributed to Norwegian psychiatrist Finn Skårderud, they set out to maintain a constant blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of
📝 Paper: The Dialectics of Freedom and Escape in Vinterberg's Un altro giro 1. Introduction
The film immediately frames itself through a quote by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard: "What is youth? A dream. What is love? The content of the dream." Kierkegaard posited that anxiety ( Angst ) is the "dizziness of freedom"—the paralyzing realization of the infinite possibilities available to an individual.