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Lords of Chaos, the movie review

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  Imagine a safe and quiet to boredom northern European country where a violent and hard music genre  - Norwegian black metal - is born.  You can see how it all began and ended in a Hollywood movie "Lords of Chaos" (2019).  The movie tells a story of how a Norwegian teenager form Oslo with a stage name Euronymous created an infamous genre of heavy metal and the band "Mayhem". The film director Swedish Jonas Ã…kerlund has experience in creating music videos and playing in a heavy metal band himself so you can trust him on that.  The film is also a testimony of how life's grand plan is more powerful than a point of view harboured towards it. What I mean is that no matter how you look at life, be it through Barbie doll perspective songs or darkest nihilistic metal, you end up wanting the same things - ordinary life and a family. That was what happened to the main hero of the film Euronymous. In the end he cut his hair, found a girlfriend and blurted that he wanted t...