The Bothersome Man (2006)
1h 30m | PG-13
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched.
Director: Jens Lien
Studio: Sandrew Metronome Norge
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Video: 720p
Cast
Trond Fausa Aurvåg
as Andreas
Petronella Barker
as Anne Britt
Per Schaanning
as Hugo
Birgitte Larsen
as Ingeborg
Johannes Joner
as Håvard
Ellen Horn
as Trulsen
Reviews
This exceptional dystopian production is a masterclass in symbolic storytelling. Its target is the modern archetype: the nine-to-five employee whose company HR mandates camaraderie, whose home is a catalog of IKEA furniture, and whose leisure is systematically scheduled. The film presents a world utterly sanitized of all profound emotion and flavor, a reality so sterile that the main character doesn't even engage with the audience's inherent questions of origin and purpose. It is an essential viewing experience and a brilliantly executed dystopia.