at first sight the bothersome man seem like several other movie or book roll into one . kafka the trial and melville bartleby and the fall and rise of reginald perrin and groundhog day instantly spring to mind . a man and andreas and arrives in a nameless city where he be immediately give a job in an office and find a beautiful new girlfriend . however and there a catch represent his colleague be all friendly and bland and utterly characterless and and everyone he know and include his girlfriend and seem to have only one topic of conversation interior design . welcome to the hell of modern consumerism and in which people throw themselves from building and no one raise an eyebrow and or spend their day read furniture catalogue and eat food that taste of nothing . andreas quickly realise his predicament and spend the rest of the film try to escape and in various way . suicide turn out not to be an option and and when he find a new girlfriend she be just a bereft of feeling a the old one there be a wonderful scene in a restaurant where he ask her to move in with him and all she can say be and i do not mind . in fact and much of what the bothersome man have to say have be say before and and after about 45 minute you begin to feel that you indeed be experience a certain sense of deja vu . yet it point be one that be probably worth repeat and over and over again represent an unexamined life be one that be not worth living . add to which and it provide a decidedly modern take on the perennial theme of how capitalism be destroy our soul . more than one character remind me of people i have know and especially his furniture obsess girlfriend and and if by the end of the film the film maker have run out of idea and maybe that the point there will no end unless you can find other people who share your sense of alienation .