It's pretty much a straightforward story of detectives investigating the brutal murder of a teenage girl. The detective are finding clues and piecing together a scenario when their entrapment ambush goes wrong and it becomes a frantic chase in the rugged wilderness.
The scene is beautiful- fog settling around huge boulders with patches of green grass and huge blue mountains in the distance.
But then-something goes wrong. After a cluster of gunfire two police officers are discovered shot, one dead. Detective Engström, the subject of the story is confused-he thought he had been confronted by the killer & shot him in defense. But it was his partner.
Next is the inquiry and Engström instead of just telling the truth figures it's easier to cover his mistake.
This movie takes place within the Arctic Circle, so they are experiencing the 6 months of complete daylight.
The longer the inquiry goes, the more he has to cover up his story. The endless sunlight along with his accelerating guilt take an increasing mental toll as the story unfolds. The colors on the screen shift from cool natural colors in the beginning to harsh yellows & whites as the tension mounts. It's quite interesting that he identifies & discovers the murderer, who explains his "mistake", likening it to Engström's "mistake".
It quietly ends, but rather satisfyingly.
LOL at some of the set dressing, I suspect as visually progressing the story. Detective Engström's apartment was smooth white walls and sparse Ikea type furniture as is expected. When he meets the killer, the walls shown are wood with worn red paint.
But it's the Police Station sets that transitioned from weird to notable to outrageous:
At first you see stark white plaster stucco walls giving a cold, hard, pre-fab structure feeling.
Then there's blank light gray popcorn walls behind the actors-who popcorns a WALL?
Later, an office wall had an art deco fan pattern in the stucco, which was now medium gray & "pebbly" with stone like sidewalk cement.
Lastly, the walls behind the Police Inquiry were HUGE dark gray balls of cement reaching out like stalactites. The wall protrusions were so long, the ends were polished!
Pulp Fiction