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walking on the road

posted 11 years ago by yoyoanna
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As the film opens, Christian is walking on foot (from a bus-stop?) to his father's hotel. The hotel is nowhere is sight, so it seems that it's not a five-minute stroll.

Then his brother, Michael, with his wife and 3 small children is passing by in his car, notices Christian and stops. Michael orders his wife and children to get out of the car and takes Christian with him. The wife is pissed off but gets out, and Christian gets in with a slightly embarrassed smile, but is not protesting.

The wife with the children walks to the hotel on foot. Some other family members is passing her by but they only wave to her, they don't stop and ask what happened to her and if she needs any help.

Is it normal in Denmark that a man (Christian) is put before a woman and children? And why does she agree?

Hide the rum!

[–] AllyWheels 11 years ago

It's not important that nothing in this film made sense.

This was a movie constructed around the silly and pretentious idea that films should be badly lit and filmed with very shaky hand held cameras and that this would (if it caught on and fooled enough people) be thought of as a "movement".

[–] Sequentialist 8 years ago

Oh, do give it a teency bit of credit pleaaaaase.

It was trying to bring back script and acting as the main attraction.

It was a good movie though, right?! The idea goes just a little bit overboard but it gave us this delightful feature.

And when was it badly lit?

[–] nikolaj-694-251758 11 years ago

It's not about man/woman but brother/wife in this example.

The reason why she wasn't picked up was probably because it's pretty normal to take walks in good weather.

[–] The_Khazi 9 years ago

I think it sums up the characters of both of the brothers:Christian is being polite in refusing the lift and then becomes embarrassed that his brother subsequently chucks his family out the car.The wife doesn`t look too happy so I hardly think she`s agreeing.

[–] UltimateCarnage 10 years ago

Dad is being outed as a child molester and rapist, people go have brandy and a smoke.

Yeah, whole lot of sense this movie makes.

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