Platypuschow Daisy Diamond is an award winning Danish drama, and one that will linger on my mind for months to come I can already tell.It tells the story of a young single mother and her 4 month old baby. She is an aspiring but ultimately failing actress who is gradually resorting to more and more desperate measures to get anywhere in her career and keep a roof over their heads.To make matters worse her little cherub won't stop crying, the shrill scream of a baby is a common noise here! Very very common noise.Daisy Diamond is highly uncomfortable viewing, it's dark, it's sombre, it's depressing and it certainly had a lasting impression on me.One thing that astounds me is how graphic the whole thing is, the amount of full frontal nudity from Rapace is incredible when you take into consideration where her career went from here. That stuff normally kills a career outright especially with the subject matter and the fact the movie seems to go out of its way to make her look physically bad at every turn.A grim horrible movie, saved by some sterling acting and the sad realization that the movie is shockingly and heartbreakingly realistic.The Good:Well actedWell written in placesCouple of decent charactersThe Bad:I actually had to mute the movie in places because of the baby cryingDevastating imageryNot so much of a story as a greek tragedyThings I Learnt From This Movie:It concerns me how filmmakers make babies cry on cueOn paper this movie should have been career suicide for Rapace

FilmCriticLalitRao Director Simon Staho's Danish film "Daily Diamond" is one film whose meaning can be easily summed up in a single, long sentence. However, as it talks about things which mean a lot in our daily lives, the issues it raises and their repercussions on people would be felt for a very long time. Although it has a small baby girl as one of its protagonists, it is not at all a family film due to its excessive reliance on nude scenes and violence which border on a mild form of quasi perverse pornography. Actress Noomi Rapace is perfect in her role of a Swedish girl who does not crack in a harsh Danish cinema industry where casting couch is rampant and most people associated with cinema business offer free advice while revealing their philosophical thoughts about acting business. Their hypocrisy is revealed when it transpires that these are the very people who don't hesitate in giving "share my bed if you want a role of your life" type invitations to struggling actors. The film does not stop at all in asking a pertinent question: which 'real actor' can survive in a harsh cinematographic milieu where talent takes a back seat ? As far as watching this film is concerned, there is a minor warning for viewers who are working mothers. Although this film depicts the tragic plight and problems of a working mother, it fails to offer a plausible solution.This leads us to ask whether it is ethical to have a child when the mother is not at all in a position to raise it. Lastly, the real star of this film is a 4 month old baby girl whose life is snuffed out too soon by her mother who would like to make it big in the phony world of cinema.

leplatypus It's simple: as a young Pacino, Noomi really explodes the screen by an incredible performance and anybody in the movie business who watches this movie would be eager to work with her!This movie is just one trip to hell for her character as her life as a young single mom kept getting so bad that it crushed her. This is sad, tragic and immensely painful as Noomi is led to do the unthinkable! After twenty of minutes of her baby daughter crying, you expect something bad but the infanticide really shocks me. It's such a taboo that even the movie can't face this reality as it has the baby coming back as a vision. Nothing exists anymore for Noomi and she really gives her body and soul to the darkness. From the happy moments to the end, Noomi is perfect, finds and plays the right feeling, the expected attitude and you just wonder how she can do that? Her sweet dialogs with her baby, in front of the video shop and in the bathroom, are among the best moments of maternal love ever filmed. (with a special dedication to the real baby who played with her!)Another strength of the movie comes from the filmmaking: showing a lot of close-up when people speak is a good idea, especially to enlighten Noomi's cute face. I also like the fact that the casting she does as an inspiring actress reflects her own life and thus sometimes, the two realities speak together. In addition, I'm sure it speaks on a third level for Noomi because she was maybe like this during her real auditions!Does the movie have flaws? Certainly: as things goes only way (bad), it's a bit unrealistic and too much. On the other side, Noomi isn't a bright mother but then I would have insisted on that a lot more as you can wonder about the strange choices that she opts. At the end, I bless once again the day that I went watching "Prometheus" because this is the movie that introduced me to Noomi and i really don't know if i would have found this amazing movie without it!

mtlsyr There has been a lot of movies based on a girl who escapes home to become an actress and ends up in a desperate situation. Most of them are in a social mood of giving young girls and the families a lesson. However, this film is not something a young girl could watch. The sex scenes are exaggerated too much and the depression level of the film is too high. You can find almost everything in this 'drama' that you can find in a pornographic movie. And you can even learn new sexual terms.By watching this movie, instead of blaming the life for being so cruel or getting the point of which way to follow in life or teach yourself how to raise your child you just watch the exaggerated scenes and try to receive something out of them. Not a bad movie in general but a little out of the track.