| | |  | NORWAY | Home » » The Bothersome Man | | | | | | | Description: | | Studio: Repnet Llc Release Date: 12/04/2007 | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Petronella Barker, Ellen Horn, Johannes Joner, Anders T. Andersen, Trond Fausa Aurvag | | Director:
| Jens Lien | | Format:
| Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen | | Language:
| English, Norwegian | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Film Movement | | Run Time:
| 93 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| December 04, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
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16 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Provocative Norwegian film is worth seeingApr 11, 2008
By Andres C. Salama
This Norwegian film starts with a man jumping over the subway, apparently commiting suicide. But the next scene shows him arriving in a lonely bus into a desert. There he meets a man, and is shipped off to a mysterious city, where he starts working in an aseptic modern office as an accountant. The coworkers seem nice, if emotionless, and he soon meets a woman who becomes his girlfriend, yet the city seems utterly strange, as the food has no taste, alcohol doesn't make you drunk, and there's nary a children around. Is this a dream, or is he in paradise, or in hell?. While at times, the films looks as extended episode of The Twilight Zone (even at ninety minutes, the movie seems a bit long), it is quite thought provoking. The best scenes are those in which the exaggeration is minimal, as when the people engage in banal conversations about interior decoration, and recoil at discussing deeper issues. I always thought there was something inhuman in advanced capitalist societies, in the way they try to repress the basic urges of human nature. And this movie is best when it devastatingly critiques this life style. Unfortunately, the movie is a bit too long, and the director doesn't seem to know how to end it, but most for of the running time this is very much worth seeing.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Stays with you for a while after you stop watching it...May 19, 2010
By A.Raj Rao
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This was a really interesting and somewhat disturbing movie. How do I put it? Anyone read Albert Camus' The Stranger (L'Étranger)? You have that very impersonal guy, Meursault who is very disconnected with the rest of the world. Meursault navigates himself through a world personned by color, emotion, feeling, spirituality, life and so on, and yet he is totally not connected to any of it.
This movie seems sort of to be giving you a reverse situation. It is as if it asks - what happens to a person when he finds himself in a world populated by Meursaults? And that is just what happens. Andreas apparently winds up at a bus stop in a desert-like place and from there is taken to a very modern spic and span city. Here he is given perhaps everything that anyone could want in life - a job, friends, a girlfriend, nice apartment, etc. - What more could you ask for in life??? - Yet in spite of it all something is missing. The city, which he reached by way of the desert is itself a desert of sorts. The city (and its people) lacks color, emotion, feeling, etc. It is nothing but flesh, bone and nerve amidst concrete, gravel and steel. It is a hollow place. Andreas' sense that there something not right with the place increases as he finds the place to be more and more alienating. Ok - I'll stop here and not say anymore about the story -
The movie seems to be some kind of existential commentary on modern societies, where on the surface, you seem to have everything, but deep within have nothing, and the lives lived are those of Thoreau's quiet desperation.
- Very good and intelligent movie.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Yikes! Where to Begin?Aug 14, 2011
By SanDiegoJesse
This is the society in which I live! On a daily basis, I ponder the elements that are explored in this film. It is, indeed, thought-provoking and a reminder of just how far we have sold our souls in exchange for the superficial and mundane. Although I understand what this movie tried to say, on so many levels, I do not need clarity as to where he is or winds up at the end. Isn't that for each of us to decide for ourselves? Just as it is our individual responsibility to define and make our quality of life as we see fit? It is comforting to know that I am not the only "bothersome man (human)" and that there are others who do not accept things as they arw as well. But where to go and how to escape it as I find no concrete to drill into, no light at the end of the tunnel? Perhaps that's for us to construct as well? To do the best in making our own niche in a superficial and hollow society. This film will be with me for awhile as I continue to wrap my mind around it.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Bizarre FilmDec 12, 2011
By B. Carr
This movie was wonderfully bizarre. In fact, it was so bizarre, I am certain that I missed some type of symbolism or something.
It starts off with a man in a subway watching (listening) to a couple that were loudly and unashamedly sucking face. He decides to jump in front of a speeding subway car. The next scene shows him being dropped off in the boonies. He is taken to a town in which there is no young people. No music. No emotion. A very antiseptic society.
Bizarre is a word for this film. I just wish I could have seen the meanings in the movie. There are so many little things in the film, like the men in the gray coats that drive the little gray car that always pick up the deceased or injured in the society. Almost as if they are there to clean or rid the society of the refuse they do not want.
Wonderfully acted and put together, I enjoyed the film regardless of what I have said in this review. This film is available on Amazon Prime and is very much worth watching!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
An Odd Little GemOct 18, 2010
By Eric Sanberg
Our main character, Andreas, offs himself by jumping in front of a train. Next thing you know he's on a bus to a way station where he's escorted to a new apartment and a waiting job. Everything is at an easy pace. Money is no problem, work load is light, his apartment is nice if but a bit austere and everyone he meets is pleasant.
But that seems to be the problem with everything. There are no highs or lows. There are no children around and everyone he sees or works with is about his age. No one is too fat or too skinny. No one is too tall or too short. All the colors are muted and all the furniture is minimalist. The food is bland and he can drink liquor till the cows come home and he isn't going to get drunk. Even the act of sex seems to be bland and unfulfilling.
There is much more to this but I don't wish to spoil.
This is a quirky idea. I'm not sure he's in Hell, (a point which is underlined by the final scene) but he's in no place I'd like to be. This is a film from the Icelandic Film Company but I believe it's really Swedish or Norwegian. I'm also wondering if they aren't making a statement about their society. That they are a totally even-keeled society that has lost all sense of adventure and passion. The opening scene shows Andreas in an underground train station. The only other people there are a youngish couple doing some heavy mouth to mouth. But their eyes are open and there seems to be no real passion. Just a going through the motions sort of thing. That's when he does himself in.
The concept is so good I wouldn't be surprised if the script wrote itself. This is a very well realized movie. The set, costumes, color schemes must have been easy to put together. It's shot well, acted well and has a very good musical score. If there is a reason I'm not giving this 5 stars is because it makes so much sense so quickly. You pretty much get what is going on early in the movie, so each new scene does little more than underscore what you already know. The reason you keep watching is to see how things will resolve themselves. I'm very curious as to how viewers will read the final scene.
Being a foreign, subtitled film, it certainly won't be for everyone. But for any viewer predisposed toward this sort of thing it's well worth the time to view it.
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