The Bothersome Man- Why?

Director Jens Lien. 2006.
The Bothersome Man describes a world not unlike our own. A sarcastic and tinted view of our affluent lives in the Nordic countries. A society where all problems have been ironed out. Empathy has become surplus an empty friendliness has taken its place. Kitchen furnishings have replaced love, and social rituals have replaced friendship. Normality in all its grotesqueness.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• bothersome man
• Jens Lien
• Den brysomme mannen

[jojokerus]

I also got the impression that the film described a sort of hell. Clearly very similar to real life but certain rules (like the consequences of dismemberment) are suspended.

[tolar9]

Lighten up. Posting my opinion on Youtube is hardly "forcing [ones] perception...on other people"! And you just, ahem, expressed another idea, so clearly I take away your "chance" to do so.

Watch the film again and look for signs of people committing suicide repeatedly--like the main character did. The setting is clearly post-mortem; the bland, drab lifelessness & repeated suicides & resurrections (to do it again!) confirm this. Up to you to decide if it's "punishment" or not, though.

fin

[meclazine]

Did not read it that way. You appear to be forcing your perception of the film on other people giving them no chance to express their ideas.

Not dissimilar to the characters in the film.

[tolar9]

You do realize that all these people are being punished for committing suicide, right? From your short critique, it seems you didn't catch the clearly drawn metaphysical underpinnings of the setting.