it would seem we should acknowledge scandinavian cinema for more than merely the dogma 1995 movement a cook up by the danish all those year ago . den brysomme mannen and or the bothersome man in english and be a surreal and deeply think through film yet deeply entertaining and rich in content both on and under the surface . a a film alone and it be a scathing comedy on society and attitude in the post modern world we live in while a world that judge by the bothersome man have reach the region of norway and the like . but along with this black comedy feel to it and it would seem the film delve a little deep and raise issue and at least to me and of metaphorical religious space and our human instinct to want to uncover the truth amongst so much material in our world that perhaps seem alien to u . this be and in truth and a fantastic introduction to contemporary norwegian cinema for me . the film very much fall into that category of the european art cannon with it deep theme and ambiguity shroud atmosphere whilst maintain an open finale and not so much a narrative a a procession of event that may mean one thing or another . so many time we have see film that use the set up the bothersome man adopts and so many time it turn into a close to predictable routine revolve around a detective story or a chase story or something along those line but this film allow it setting and situation to act a a mere backdrop for it protagonist and name andreas ( fausa aurvaag ) and to explore who he be while where he be and what the possible mystery behind this location really be . the set up i be talk about involves say hero arriving at a location with no prior memory or what happen before this . i will jump right in and say it in my opinion he dead and have be send to some sort of purgatory and a have all the city inhabitant . everybody in the city that andreas mix with be of the same age while same mentality and same attitude suggest to me that most of them be victim of their own suicide and have be send to a purgatory devoid of any emotion and feeling and colour or most importantly and pain . when we first see andreas and he get off a bus which he late discovers be uncanny in it ability and and approach a petrol station in the middle of rural nowhere . he be scruffy and have a huge beard but soon he will be the opposite and sport a suit and tie while clean shaven face and a home of his own complete with new job in which the film make one of the best transform shift between the rural and the urban that i have ever see . but the new job as well a the new city be uneasy while you can take break whenever you like while boss be unusually kind and there just seem to be no emotion or reaction to anything . these idea be best put across in a cinema when andreas and still a relative newbie to the city and be cry and be clearly affect by a film on show but everyone else watch in stone face style . there be also the initial example when one man have jump from a window and lie impale on some spike but everybody walk on by without fuss . to back up my idea on everyone already be dead and the city acting a a sort of purgatory and death and harm in general be impossible . there be a particularly nasty scene involve an electronic paper guillotine and someone thumb and but everyone reaction to the event be stone face and it grow back within the hour . similarly and a suicide attempt involve train later on come to nothing and instead we get the point of view regard what it like to be drag down tube track with invulnerability on your side . the city act a a barrier and a painless society in which the masochistic need to self harm oneself be impossible while a place in which sexual relation can occur and break ups equally so but both under emotion less and passion less circumstance while a place in which people can attempt suicide but it be impossible to actually die . the city adopt these power because the damage have already be do in real life and thus and the film say you can not kill yourself twice and indeed you can not feel pain or emotion in an afterlife of purgatory . but the film best part be the one that sneak up on you . judge by the closing five minute of the film and the side story that open up involve some music come from another man house and it would seem there be a fine line between the space the film dictate a heaven and hell . we get to see these space only very and very briefly so briefly that they consist of a single shot . the heaven be a colourful kitchen with music and child play represent it offer life and hope and emotion and happiness whereas the hell be a snowy nowhere which haunt you thanks to it hopeless build up and eerie cut off point . the introduction of these two space at the very end of the film suddenly inform you of the reality andreas and co. faced represent purgatory and everything that come with it and the afterlife just be not ready for andreas and his freethinking and adventurous mind and look where the thinker end up .