😍 2022-05-05 09:28:21 – Paris/France.
"Temporary psychological disorder that appears in the person who has been abducted and which consists of being understanding and benevolent with the behavior of the abductors and gradually identifying with their ideas, either during the abduction or after being released"
We are quickly removing the description of Stockholm syndrome because you will know it perfectly well. In fact, it's a psychology term that's used metaphorically in many other contexts, such as when you find yourself trapped in a toxic personal or professional relationship with someone who's a trickster. The question we are here to answer is… where does this expression come from? Why Stockholm? And we are going to dispute it with Pashas with Netflix, which launches a series on this subject on May 5.
The series is called Clark. Because? Well, we answer all of a sudden: that Clark belongs to Clark Olofsson, one of the criminals who participated in one of the most famous robberies in history: the one that took place in August 1973 at Norrmalmstorg bank, which is a place in Stockholm. We started attacking the ropes. And it was his hostages who developed this attachment to their captor, to the point of turning against the police and the authorities for having defended the one who held them.
On the left, the real mugshot of Clark Olofsson. On the right, actor Bill Skarsgård dressed as Clark.
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And what happened so that the four hostages of this apparently violent theft find themselves face to face with their captors? To explain this, as the Netflix series does, you have to look back. Clark Olofsson was a habitual criminal –and an inveterate flirtation– that since he was a child he had been in trouble with the police for increasingly serious robberies and crimes. A life of reformatories and comings and goings in prison (with several well-known escapes included) mixed with periods of wild hedonism and amorous conquests. In the series, he is first portrayed as an irresistible madman, as a guy who defies the system through fun and pleasure, and who cheats on women through complicity and adrenaline: being by his side is a party. permed. Equal parts danger and excitement. Robberies, pregnancies, drug trafficking, hippie explosion… Pure 60s and 70s in Northern Europe.
During one of these stays in prison, already converted into a kind of crime celebrity -something like our Dioni, but handsome-, the Swedish Prime Minister demands that Olofsson be used to negotiate with the Norrmalmstorg thief. This is Janne Olsson, a criminal half-friend, half-partner of Olofsson himself. With his ability to cajole and manipulate, Olofsson manages to be let into the bank to negotiate from the inside… And what he does is join in the robbery.
Bill Skarsgård and Eric Broms as Clark Olofsson and Janne Olsson in the Netflix series.
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For six days that paralyzed Sweden and half the world, Olofsson seduced the hostages as he had done so many times with other people throughout his life. How? He cared for them from the start, he made sure they had food, music and fun, he ignited the sexual spark with one of the kidnapped girls… And most importantly : from his position of power, he made them see that he alone could help and protect them, so that nothing happens to them. That the danger was not him but the police. To the point that one of the hostages told the authorities that she wanted to get out of there with the loot and the kidnappers.
These are just the keys that describe Stockholm Syndrome. The Netflix series brings a nuance to bear in mind: let's say Clark was able to play "good cop" in the beginning because the one who really held them was Janne Olsson, the "bad cop", so in a way he wasn't directly the kidnapper. It is true that once inside, his objective was to grab the money and escape with Olsson and two of the hostages, the most devoted.
He got it? If you consider this a spoiler, please don't read on...
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Well no. After these 6 days of police harassment and intimacy between robbers and hostages, the police managed to get them out using tear gas and taking advantage of the low morale of all those who were locked up. Olofsson came out of it with the aura of a national hero (after all, he had fulfilled his mission, that the assault ended without casualties) and quite acceptable prison sentences. Then he went back to his old ways again and again: no more crimes, no more kids, no more prison, no more need for fame.
In fact, and here we are more in the mode of criticizing the series than the amateur psychologists, what the Netflix series seeks is to mirror Stockholm syndrome, Olofsson's personality and the viewer. Clark It starts with a diabolical, multicolored rhythm, with a hooligan and horny tone in the style of Guy Ritchie. Adding to Bill Skarsgård's savage but well-nuanced performance, he manages (or at least tries) to make the viewer feel instant empathy for a guy who, yes, passes the law off as his understudy, but does it all from the inside out. a contagious kamikaze freedom, more infantile than malignant, in a way justified by the family disaster he had to experience as a child. It will be necessary to wait for the end of the series so that he strips the character for a moment of all these layers of seduction and shows the naked reality: that of a manipulator incapable of thinking of anything or anyone other than his pleasure and his fame.
And from there, you can move on to a curious lesson: when talking about Stockholm syndrome, not in the strict sense of hostages but in that other metaphor that we mentioned at the beginning, the focus is always on the victim who develops this attachment to his or her executioner victim, often with a prejudiced look. As if the victim were the one who falls in love because within her beats a kind of morbid paraphilia towards those who treat her the worst. While in reality, he tends to be an extremely narcissistic tormentor with other psychopathic traits who has developed the ability to get what he wants from others through manipulation and seduction.
And this is happening in Stockholm, Pernambuco and Teruel.
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