Another reviewer said that "Skarsgård perfectly embodies that moral ambiguity" in Jonas Engström. And it's in that vein that Stellan is likened to Humphrey Bogart. In John Huston's The Maltest Falcon, the classic film noir, Bogie plays Sam Spade, a brooding private eye with a less-than-reverential attitude toward the law. Good characters are not entirely good; bad characters have their charms and emotional weaknesses. That is Stella's trademark - moral ambiguity (presented gloriously in the role of Willem Furtwängler in Taking Sides). Stellan himself continually admits, "If I get a real bad guy, I try to find out his good sides. And I try to explain, at least to myself, what he is lacking... what makes him bad. And if you play a good guy, you have to find his flaws to make them more interesting and alive."
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