The Bothersome Man

2006 [NORWEGIAN]

Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Sci-Fi

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 75% · 20 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 82% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 18844 18.8K

dream dreams afterlife revolution dystopia modern society

Director

Jens Lien Photo
Jens Lien

Top cast

Ivar Lykke Photo
Ivar Lykke as Kollega 1
Trond Fausa Photo
Trond Fausa as Andreas
Anders T. Andersen Photo
Anders T. Andersen as Harald
Petronella Barker Photo
Petronella Barker as Anne-Britt
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877.03 MB
1280*690
Norwegian 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 2
1.76 GB
1920*1036
Norwegian 5.1
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by pipsonite 8 / 10

An interesting flick

Reviewed by EnvyYouProductions 8 / 10

Laconic screen gem

Reviewed by strandedinoslo 6 / 10

welcome to Oslo, Norway

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.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.The soundtrack is Peer Gynt, almost the Norwegian national anthem, adding again to that lost paradise's nostalgia.The final scene is shot at the house of common of Oslo and the people coming out of the building are meant to be the deputies or minister of the country and they tell Andreas that they did everything to make him happy, if I remember correctly, just before expelling him.Although Andreas injures himself to show his feelings,the gore scenes may seem strange here but maybe the director use it to mock the conformity of the Norwegian cinema, as it has been mandatory for the last decade to show very violent scenes in almost every movie.Is the bus also a typical character of the Norwegian society? I wonder because for celebrating the end of the studies , the Norwegian students have "party buses" this ritual marks the entering into the adult life, and Andreas coming from nowhere in a bus to this town. what do you think?
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