Hans Petter Moland, the director of this film, has made some very interesting and personal films. Besides this one I - Gunnar - have seen 'Secondløitnanten' ('The last Lieutenant') and 'En ganske snill mann' ('A Somewhat Gentle Man'), both films with interesting male characters reflecting over their lives, choices and responsibilities. Aurore liked them too.
On the contrary I don't recall having seen 'Aberdeen' with - among others - Stellan Skarsgård and Charlotte Rampling. Aurore has seen it and she was not at all impressed, but thought it rather boring and insipid.
This film is an adaptation of the book 'Gymnaslærer Pedersens beretning om den store politiske vekkelsen som har hjemsøkt vårt land' writen by Dag Solstad.
It tells the story about the young teacher Knut Pedersen (Kristoffer Joner) who becomes entangled in the political games at the time, that is to say the marxist-leninist political movement, being - as we all know - a general ideological basis for many people in Europe and elsewhere during the 1960's and -70's.On the contrary I don't recall having seen 'Aberdeen' with - among others - Stellan Skarsgård and Charlotte Rampling. Aurore has seen it and she was not at all impressed, but thought it rather boring and insipid.
This film is an adaptation of the book 'Gymnaslærer Pedersens beretning om den store politiske vekkelsen som har hjemsøkt vårt land' writen by Dag Solstad.
The film begins with him being a rather conservative high school teacher, living a conventional life with a wife and a child.
He meets the ideologically fundamentalistic Nina Skåtøy (Ane Dahl Torp) who he falls in love with. This love affair leads to him leaving his wife and their child, in order to be able to work for 'a higher good', within the framework of ideals he never before had embraced.
It's in a way a very humoristic and perspicacious film, making fun of the often extremely naive but on the same time idealistic and fundamentalistic left wing movements at the time (not much have changed up til this day).
He meets the ideologically fundamentalistic Nina Skåtøy (Ane Dahl Torp) who he falls in love with. This love affair leads to him leaving his wife and their child, in order to be able to work for 'a higher good', within the framework of ideals he never before had embraced.
It's in a way a very humoristic and perspicacious film, making fun of the often extremely naive but on the same time idealistic and fundamentalistic left wing movements at the time (not much have changed up til this day).If this was the intention in Solstad's book or not, that I don't know. Solstad was himself engaged in the left-wing movement.
The 'real reason' for Knut's engagement is first and foremost to be able to come close to Nina in order to get her into bed. This is of course hidden behind highly pronounced political pamphlets, crying out the solidarity with people all over the world and at the same time - as with mosts fundamentalistic movements - not assuming a profound responsibility for this engagement.
Even if there were individuals really believing that they were engaged in a radical change in society, they were at the same time blind for the fact that the ideological basis, in countries where it had been applied, had lead to dictatorships and hardship (to put it mildly) for 'dissidents'.
Often the engagement for 'the cause' was combined with a moral reproach of others, not sharing their views on life.
As with most ideologically fundamentalistic movements, the difference between the verbal standpoints and the real life is abysmal.
The film circled a bit to much around the sex life between the two main protagonists (as sex on film often is extremely uninteresting, boring and not at all sensual, even if that is the ambition) but the reality basis for this story is in my/our opinion very accurate and therefore - as I wrote above - truely humorous.
The 'real reason' for Knut's engagement is first and foremost to be able to come close to Nina in order to get her into bed. This is of course hidden behind highly pronounced political pamphlets, crying out the solidarity with people all over the world and at the same time - as with mosts fundamentalistic movements - not assuming a profound responsibility for this engagement.
Even if there were individuals really believing that they were engaged in a radical change in society, they were at the same time blind for the fact that the ideological basis, in countries where it had been applied, had lead to dictatorships and hardship (to put it mildly) for 'dissidents'.
Often the engagement for 'the cause' was combined with a moral reproach of others, not sharing their views on life.
As with most ideologically fundamentalistic movements, the difference between the verbal standpoints and the real life is abysmal.
The film circled a bit to much around the sex life between the two main protagonists (as sex on film often is extremely uninteresting, boring and not at all sensual, even if that is the ambition) but the reality basis for this story is in my/our opinion very accurate and therefore - as I wrote above - truely humorous.
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