Strauss and The Killing

Strauss - Binary Opposition drives a narrative forward 
i.e)
     - Good and Evil
     - Right and Wrong
     - Smart and Dumb


Character-                                                                                                                                              The main character is Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lundt,who is meant to be moving Sweden, with her son, joining her fiance transfer to the Swedish Police. Everything changes when 19-year-old Nanna Birk Larsen is found raped and brutally murdered. Sarah and her replacement Detective Inspector Jan Meyer team up to solve the mystery.
Troels Hartmann, a politician, is in the middle or a hard-fought mayoral campaign when evidence links him to the murder. Nanna's friends and family struggle to cope with her death.

Genre- 
Film Noir - Without narration
                 - Bleak view of humanity
                 - Blood
                 - Death
                 - Killing
                 - Evil
                 - Victims
                 - Darkness

Themes-
- Politics
- Murder
- Bleak view of humanity
- Investigation

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