The man, Håkan (Per Ragnar) is a serial killer whose modus operandi is to befriend young men, overcome them with a homemade anaesthesia kit and then cut their throats to collect the blood in an empty two-litre milk carton.
Though he organized lectures with a military expert to help the men overcome the stress of killing, he was reluctant to share his own war stories.
In the film, he talks of "the horror of uncontrolled development, like Long Island on steroids" and the "Kafka meets Looney Tunes" atmosphere that he discovered in Los Angeles, where he directed a short, silent film about a man so overcome with despair at his surroundings that he throws himself off a train trestle.
Here, a man is so overcome with spontaneous emotion that he lurches halfway across the dining room in search of his quarry.
"What is happening to these men?" I was momentarily overcome with shame.
Another video report from the same source showed hysterical family members of the men killed on Sunday, overcome with grief in the dirty courtyard of the morgue.
At the final whistle the first man on his knees, overcome with emotion, was Clément Poitrenaud, the villain of the piece at Twickenham a year ago when his moment of defensive madness allowed Rob Howley and Wasps to pilfer the cup late on.
A big man with a moustache, overcome with emotion, he then read something he had prepared, to a rapt courtroom.
Set in 18th-century France, it focuses on a young man named Louis who, overcome with grief following the deaths of his family, accepts an offer to become a vampire.
Again, a man overcome by emotion.
