Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #91147 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-12-04
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, HiFi Sound, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen
• Original language: English, Norwegian
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 93 minutes

Customer Reviews

Provocative Norwegian film is worth seeing
This Norwegian film starts with a man jumping over the subway, apparently commiting suicide. But the next scene shows him arriving in a lonely bus into a desert. There he meets a man, and is shipped off to a mysterious city, where he starts working in an aseptic modern office as an accountant. The coworkers seem nice, if emotionless, and he soon meets a woman who becomes his girlfriend, yet the city seems utterly strange, as the food has no taste, alcohol doesn't make you drunk, and there's nary a children around. Is this a dream, or is he in paradise, or in hell?. While at times, the films looks as extended episode of The Twilight Zone (even at ninety minutes, the movie seems a bit long), it is quite thought provoking. The best scenes are those in which the exaggeration is minimal, as when the people engage in banal conversations about interior decoration, and recoil at discussing deeper issues. I always thought there was something inhuman in advanced capitalist societies, in the way they try to repress the basic urges of human nature. And this movie is best when it devastatingly critiques this life style. Unfortunately, the movie is a bit too long, and the director doesn't seem to know how to end it, but most for of the running time this is very much worth seeing.

Thought-provoking
Den Brysomme Mannen or The Bothersome Man tells the story of Andreas who is bussed to an orderly, Utopian city where a job and wife await him. However, Andreas feels something is lacking in his new pre-fabricated, mundane life. In a search for meaning and beauty, he attempts to escape the numbness of the perfect city with the help of Hugo, a chance acquaintance. This movie is surprisingly poignant despite a certain thematic ambiguity. Director Jens Lien never tells us why Andreas comes to the city or what the forces are behind this Orwellian world. The film is one that stays with the viewer long after the first viewing.

The Bothersome Man
Very interesting and thought provoking movie. It causes you to look at your life and at the people around you in a different manner