Sign In. The Bothersome Man Hide Spoilers. EnvyYouProductions 31 July Imagine a world, in which everyone treats anyone nicely, no foul word is ever uttered, office bickering is nonexistent, and your boss invites the office crowd regularly to self-cooked dinners where you can chat about latest interior design styles. Everything is neat, pleasant - well, just nice.
In other words: you are in hell. After being dropped off in the middle of nowhere, mid-thirties Andreas Trond Fausa Aurvaag starts a new job as a book-keeper in a small, clean city. From the beginning he feels foreign in this proper, impersonal world of superficial kindness, surrounded by pleasant but lifeless interior architecture and likewise colleagues. Food tastes of nothing, drinks don't get you drunk, no children anywhere; after initial steps of fitting in, Andreas searches for ways to escape the bland new world.
He doesn't know where he came from anymore, but still remembers rich tastes, true feelings - anything beyond the non-committal flatline life he's leading now. Spiced with macabre humour, this Scandinavian laconic tale convinces on every level: story, characters, and relevance. A true screen gem. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. First of all, forget all the Christian stuff heaven, hell, purgatory. You are in Norway. The director intended well to show it is shot in Oslo, it is easy to recognize the places.
It is a sharp look at the values that rules the country and at the lack of sentiments and feeling of the Norwegian society. Note that Andreas - does he arrive to Oslo by his own will - does not really has a job, but a place in the society that give him access to "happyness": - an apartment - a convertible - friends from the work place - a girl, who has only interest for kitchens - another girl who cannot say I want but only I may The girls are cruelly described, but again the 1st one is the typical Norwegian "witch" sorry to use this word, I translate literally from Norwegian and the second the everyone's girl friend; both are typical characters of the Norwegian society.
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Andreas has other values, is sensitive and want to make choices: warm chocolate and children. It is deep buried in the cellars of the old buildings of Oslo housing old people; the room at the end of the tunnel is a typical grandma Norwegian kitchen.
