ODIN RISING
Tudor, Alex, and Edi are Romanian junior high school students in the 1990s when they discover extreme metal and begin to explore the destructive, Satanic ideology behind the music. This shared discovery cements their friendship by forming a unique bond as they delve into depravity. Occasionally aided by their psychopathic friend George, they urge each other to commit increasingly more vandalistic and blasphemous acts: animal cruelty, slashing of tires, smashing windows, and grave desecration. This pattern of anti-social behaviour climaxes when the three teens randomly kill an innocent elderly man during an afternoon of alcohol-soaked violence. The murder brings to light an ideological gap between Tudor and Alex. In Alex’s mind, Satanism means total war and the triumph of the Luciferian, Aryan race. Comparatively, Tudor sees Satanism as bleak nihilism and violent misanthropy. Because of the difference in ideals, Alex and Tudor face off in a final confrontation that transcends into a mythological dimension.
Adrian Norton is a nerdy, narcissistic university student. When his parents become unable to pay for his education, he starts working full time to save up for school. Meanwhile, his friend Nathan, a student who comes from a rich family, finishes his undergraduate studies and prepares to go to Oxford for graduate school. Tormented by envy and self-pity and repulsed by his social and financial situation, Adrian finds temporary escape in the study of Adolf Hitler's speeches and proclamations coupled with the hypnotic rhythms of German industrial metal. His outbursts of delusional megalomania are cut short by a brief, accidental encounter with Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy. Adrian is rocked to the core by Nietzsche's idea of the Eternal Return of the Identical. This young man decides to take control of his destiny and fight the oppressive social system - in a very unorthodox way.
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