Tablecloth scene - Du levande

a funny scene from Roy Andersson's film Du levande (You, the Living, 2007). the guy performs the famous 'tablecloth trick'...

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Film & Animation

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• du
• levande
• you
• the
• living
• roy
• andersson
• tablecloth

[marraskyy]

Brilliant scene.

My interpretation about the swastikas is that many established upper-class families, often academically educated, harboured nazi -or at least far-right sympathies - sympathies during the WWII. By pulling the table cloth, the guy both reveals this and manages to break a soup bowl over 200 years old. Might be over-interpretation, but since Andersson is very left-wing, it probably hints to the direction that unveiling past skeletons and distrupting tradition carries a price.

[jenyik]

@marraskyy I go along with your interpretation.

[zydow]

Had to watch this fuckd up movie with our teacher... this was one of the only scenes that was watchable :/, also watched another movie directed by Roy "sånger från andra våningen" way sicker. Just don't understand why this movie in any way can be good.. please explain

[jenyik]

i thought the movie was hilarious for the most part. maybe this type of humor is just not your cup of tea... i'm curious, why did you have to watch it with your teacher? and why keep watching Roy Andersson's stuff if you don't enjoy it?

[zydow]

well we have to watch all kinds of strange movies with our mother tongue teacher, and the main topic was nordic movies :/. I don't watch Roy Andersson's stuff :D just had to express my pain towards this movie, just clicked randomly on one of the scenes from the movie :).

[jenyik]

i see. well, your expression of pain is most welcome here :)

speaking of strange nordic movies, my personal favorites include Festen and Mifune's Last Song...and Lars von Trier's stuff, of course

[humphreybarber]

Saw this is in the cinema - had to leave the room I was laughing so hard

[Nikozation]

@jenyik I will too.

[pepeee123]

@humphreybarber If you laugh with this scene you´re retard men! This isn´t funny. 

[pepeee123]

@humphreybarber If you laugh with this scene you´re retard men! This isn´t funny.

[Griphen84]

Haha, ett bra sätt att börja morgonen på och dagen. När man har gått upp lite senare. Work, work nu.

[MeleaBianchini]

Questo regista vuole sempre usare una luce diffusa,per enfatizzare situazioni irreali e un po oniriche( rigore, lentezza"noiosità")...guarda piu frammenti di questo tipo e ti fai un idea....a me non piace, ma è questione di gusti e utilizzo narrativo dell illuminazione..

[weirdcitykid]

@slackdave

I am an idiot - I see them now - I have watched this film before and totally missed those. May attention was on the family.

[weirdcitykid]

@slackdave

Swastikas where? I love this film and cannot see any swastikas in this scene.

[nestulova]

ahahah

what a table)))

[Mazurka1001]

Well, for a second or two I thought he'd be able to do it.