the bothersome man be a smart and surreal movie that make you reevaluate what youre do with your life and what make you tick . when you see these people in zombie like trance do everyday event and realize that what we do and what we want in real life it really hit close to home . this be a surprisingly effective movie that at the end leave you ask question about your direction and not so much the movie . andreas be the main character whose life we get a 3rd person view of a he try to adapt to a new life after be relocate . in the beginning he seem to be the most popular guy in town a everyone at work caters to him and he invite to dinner etc . a good example of this be in the scene with his new bos who offer him an envelope of an unspecified amount of cash say here a little something to get you start . andreas even get a girlfriend 20 minute into the movie and which he eventually move in with . this seem like an ideal living situation a his girlfriend be an established interior designer and attractive and and doesn not ever nag about anything he do . but andreas be unfulfilled with their relationship a with everything else in this world . he then begin an affair with a coworker name ingeborg who he eventually leave anne for and claim he be in love with . after tell ingeborg how he feel she tell him that she be also see other coworkers and say all of the relationship be nice . soon after we see andreas at a train station where he try to end his misery and to the audience disappointment doesn not come about . still look for salvation andreas meet hugo who have find a hole which music can be hear come out of . so they embark on a mission to get to the other side and will it be well or will it be worse . the bothersome man show u society obsession with appearance and it materialistic mindset . it do a great job make fun of u by fill home with ikea product that the character spend each lunch pick out . i think he be mostly poke fun at the dull scandinavian society and it high suicide rate . for example there be a scene in the movie where andreas come across a man who jump out of a building and onto a spiked fence . also and andreas feed up with this world cut his finger off and then later jump in front of a train while this be one of the most weird or outrageous scene i have see . this world create by lien be equivalent to purgatory where there be no punishment or reward . in this world drink after drink andreas never get drunk and sex be unfulfilling and and no matter how many time he try he couldn not kill himself . this movie remind me of fight club and how both main character be kind of out of sync with the world around them . in fight club tyler durden create a second persona that do everything he wouldn not and in this movie the awakened andreas be the equivalent to tyler durden . after a while he wake up and try to escape the bland life he be now apart of by escape through a hole in a wall . lien do a great job with continuity in this movie meaning when a character have a half full cup in his hand and they cut away then come back they have the glass in the same hand and it not full or empty showing that the shot be do another day . nowadays director be more worried about the sound effect and overlook the little thing like be that character wear the bracelet on the same hand a yesterday film . since i take tv production for three year in high school it hard for me not to look for continuity or voice over which drive me nuts . lien do the little thing well he get great lighting in each shot and never leave you wonder why something be in a shot and bring about an interesting topic . this film really work for me because it not only mock scandinavian but the western society and what wrong with it . the only real issue i have be with the man who commit suicide by jump on a spiked fence . because you eventually find out this world have no death but he lay motionless force you to assume he be dead and this never get answer in my opinion . andreas be the only main character a others come and go and never do more than support his him . his first girlfriend anne britt be an interior designer who at the surface seem perfect for him but eventually turn out to be dull . this lead him to ingeborg who he start an affair with and fall in love with . he soon find out that she be with a handful of other men and that what he felt be not real . andreas eventually meet hugo in the bathroom of a bar complain about how nothing taste good anymore and how he can not even get drunk anymore . he follow hugo home to find the hole in the wall with that be fill with child laughter and bird chirp . lien doesn not have a lot on the resume but the bothersome man be more than a jump start to a great career but a preview of an up and come director . if this be any indication of his talent and potential a a story teller and lien have a bright future and we can only hope that his future movie do not take so long to make it overseas for our viewing pleasure . so take a seat and enjoy the ride a director jens lien take you from the comfort of your home to the dreamlike world that be the bothersome man .