The story of a man (Mikkelsen) ostracized and persecuted by his small - town Danish community owing to
allegations of child abuse never clicks into place, mostly because director Thomas Vinterberg can't draw a bead on how to approach his hot - button material.
It
never mentions that the research has found that men who
abuse their partners are 6.5 to 19 times more likely than other men to commit incest with their
children (Lundy Bancroft & Margaret Miller, «The Batterer as Incest Perpetrator,» 85, in Lundy Bancroft & Jay G. Silverman, The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact
of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics, 2002), and, thus, dual
allegations of DV and incest are more likely to be true and involve far more dangerous abusers.