Where the first film showed sign of vitality, visions, and hopes for
life, different from what they see as a bourgeois style of life.
The second film with the ironic title, A Respectable Life from 1969 is
characterized by heavy drug use, life at the bottom of society, and early death.
At the end of the film Stoffe dies of an overdose, so Kenta is
the only of the two main characters alive throughout the trilogy.
In the third part of the trilogy, Jarl uses elements from the first film inserted
in the second, so past and present are merged in what is now a color film.
But he also uses heavy symbolic montage of images contrasting the rich and
the normal life in Stockholm, and the extremely problematic life of
the outcasts, those that the welfare state cannot apparently reach.
In the last part of the trilogy, from Misfits to Yuppies from 1993,
this dimension and contrast is moved
into the families of the former mods to kids who are now taking over.
They carry a heavy social and psychological burden, but
the film shows that they are much better in coping with the reality of the 1990s,
than their parents were in dealing with the 1960s and 70s.
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