A good film I thought. Andreas arrives in a nondescript, flat, gray dystopia. Perhaps this is where people go that have taken their own lives. Unemotional, unstimulated living. But he is not happy. He has a job and two beautiful girlfriends. Materially everything is available and easy to get. But it's all so unfulfilled. No ups and downs, no colour or spontaneity, nothing out of the ordinary! He can' even kill himself. It crossed my mind that this is how flipping boring it actually is - all the corporate compliance and staid polite conversations at contrived dinner parties - it's surely what any vibrant person would want to get away from - commit suicide. And then he discovers a hint of something different, emotive music, scents of living and he tries to get there. Is it the other side?
In this cellar where he discovers the music and smels, I loved the light bulb ceiling and very fine lamp shades on the standing lamps (not shown in this photo) I thought the cellar was truly stylish.
Back on the bus! The ending is vague. What do I make of the ending? Well it's bring white with the hint of it being cold and snowing, a gale. I guess having taken his life he cannot return to life. So is this place an even harder place to live? Or is this Heaven? Or is it purgatory? Or perhaps he has been returned. There would be no need to put him in the hold of the bus if he was going somewhere else. A strange ending is probably all that's possible with the strangeness of the dystopia anyway. Does anything need to be explained as we are already bound by our human limits of knowledge. There is no answer perhaps.
I am not sure I have seen a Norwegian made film before or perhaps I have an not acknowledge it as Norwegian. I gave this a 4.5 out of 5. It aroused my questioning mind
Bliss
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