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Why did he poison his wife?

posted 11 years ago by Biffe
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I understand the "mysterious" lack of explanation in the three stories. Still one can understand to a degree what is going on with two of them. One is a broken family where the wife seems to have had an affair or the husband has been jealous beyond reason combined with many offensive arguments, and this could have led them to where they are now.

In the other story its a combination of drug use, a new-born child, domestic violence etc. which shapes the story to where we pick up.

What I did not get, is why the old man Johan (Bjørn Floberg) killed his wife. I could not find a shred of a motive for this. The two other stories you can sort of pick up on and understand, more or less, what is going on, and "get the picture" on the situation.

With Johan I could not find anything that would even give me a clue. What did I miss?

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[–] roell29 11 years ago

My best guess would be that, feeling despondent, he decided to commit suicide and bring his wife along with him because either he was convinced that she would not want to go on without him or believed she would be with him again on the other side. I think it's clear, at least, that they were extremely close and mutually devoted to each other - soul mates.

Leave the gun, take the cannoli...

[–] Norse_Sage 11 years ago

You missed the fact Bjørn Floberg's character used to be rich up until the shortly before the movie started. Unlike the average Norwegian who only thinks he's rich and prosperous, Floberg's character actually was, so he and his trophy wife lived a life of ease and luxury.

But for whatever reason, he has lost EVERYTHING. Not just money, but for all we know prestige and reputation. Things are so bad that he knows there is no way back to former glory, he and his trophy wife are doomed to suffer the poverty and quality of life of a low income Norwegian household. That is something he knows he won't be able to bare, and something his trophy wife won't even be able to survive. So he tells her nothing, just lets her sleep in quietly without ever knowing the real predicament they are in. From his point of view, a mercy killing.

See the movie again, with this in mind. It'll click instantly.

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[–] Biffe 11 years ago

Unlike the average Norwegian who only thinks he's rich and prosperous

Are you from Norway?

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[–] Norse_Sage 11 years ago

Yes - one who has lived years abroad, taken the class journey, had his eyes opened, and returned to recognize the actual reality of Norwegian society.

Tesla was robbed!

[–] Biffe 11 years ago

I am from Norway too and I recognize a lot of the care-free mentality we have here and the egocentric attitude towards life, but I do not see that we think we are rich and prosperous. We worry more about money than many others do. Its expensive to live here and the tax-system makes it almost impossible to be rich. We have it economically good in Norway, but we are far from rich and prosperous, neither in the terms of money or mental health. We have enough income to pay the dues on our huge personal house-debts, but besides that its only the government and the country that is rich, not the citizens of Norway.

Where have you met all these rich and prosperous Norwegians? The upper west-side in Oslo?

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