thought it was brilliant. it was sort of heartbreaking, but incredibly funny at the same time. Helge completely cracked me up! I'm so happy it won the Amanda prize for Best Norwegian Film this year:) I think it deserved it!
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I thought it was just aweful.
I think I fell asleep a few times, but even my wife, who loves these little norwegian movies with no budget and a few naked scenes hated it.
I hope Norwegian movie making gets going again and stops these weird movies with hardly any international appeal...just some people in far off wooden areas that like these.
T
"I have seen more than most, but less than a few".
I'm with you, thomasinnorway, I was very disappointed and I think this movie doesn't do Norway justice (what is really trying to be said with a male protagonist with a great girlfriend whom he loves suddenly being smitten with a schizophrenic boy?). It's the first Norwegian film I have ever seen, and I will not rush out to see another one (which isn't fair, I know). I realize that Norway as a country has one of the highest standards of living in the world, so I was surprised to see it depicted as so dry, brown, and barren, and with ticky-tacky little tract houses. This isn't a socialist country after all, is it? Anyway, I think Norway deserves to have a top-notch film industry to go along with all its other great assets (that were never shown in this film).
shareEvery society has the have's and have not's. This movie is not a tourism propaganda film. I'm sure anyone who sees City of God understands that Rio de Janeiro isn't all shanty towns and slums.
Also, when you say, "what is really trying to be said with a male protagonist with a great girlfriend whom he loves suddenly being smitten with a schizophrenic boy?" I think you don't have much concept to one's 'coming out' to homosexual feelings. When Jarle recognized it for what it was, he was surprised and accepting rather than being conflicted by moral or religious values. He conflict was trying to play both sides of his group of friends with the new person in his life - someone his friends would be unable to accept (there was a Yoko Ono joke in the middle there). Your reaction sounds more along the lines of "why would anyone choose a boy over a nice girl?" which would be a bit homophobic.
carl75205--I am glad you seemed to have gotten something out of this thoroughly unrealistic and unappealing film. For me, there was nothing there of interest, as I attempted to explain in my comment for those who can read and understand simple English. The atmosphere was ugly, what was shown of Norway was ugly, and the sudden change in sexual interest from a rather nice girl to a psychotic boy doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and your idea that this as a "sudden awakening and acceptance of homosexuality" MIGHT have made some miniscule sense IF the gender-preference-changing-stimulating partner actually had some attractive about him (this is not "homophobia" and a failure to understand homosexuality, this is stating that for someone to be sexually appealing, they have to be...appealing).
People may have some fluidity in their sexual interests, it is true, but I think it would take a special lack of self-awareness for something like that to take one by "surprise".
I've seen countless gay films by now and the truth is that some of them are wonderful and others of them are not so wonderful. This one belongs squarely in the second group...for me.
Well, I loved it too. Entertaining, heartbreaking and extremely well done. I'm not Norwegian and can't compare it to other Norwegian films but it was one of the better movies I've seen in a long time. And I tend to be picky.
sharei loved it too. It was funny and heartbreaking and honest.
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I loved it too! It's definitely in my top favorites<3
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