"What?" "You don't have a case against the hospital." "You've been disbarred." "But I want to work." "The Bar will ask Georg, not me or Jenny, about your mental state." "Shouldn't you work on your book?" "I am!" "I may be a man, but I can multitask." "That's Frank's son." "I sent my book to the publisher." "Good boy!" "Don't you believe me?" "I think he's changed." "No, he hasn't." "You sound just like Georg." "She isn't some herbalist." "She's a pro." "And she listens." "Let me out!" "Georg works freelance." "Once you're over Hege, plenty of other girls will turn up." "I'm over her." "Who are you?" "Let me turn this off." "Hi, am I interrupting?" "Not at all." "It was so nice to talk yesterday." "Yes, it was." "Good night." "Good night, dad." "Good night, Georg." "Shut up, daddy's boy!" "I'm not daddy's boy." "Spoiled brat!" "Terje Broch-Hansen!" "Come with me!" "ANNE FRANK IS A SKANK" "NORWEGIAN COZY" "You have to twist it!" "You know the meeting is tomorrow?" "Of course." "You have to cut this off." "What will the Bar say?" "You don't need this cast anymore." "And they won't prescribe any more painkillers." "How can I explain showing up with a guardian and no cast?" "Dad, if they find you fit to return to work, I'll support them." "Just twist it on, guard moron." "There." "Did you say "guardian" or "guard moron"?" "There." "If they're to believe your foot hurts, you have to learn to use crutches." "This is how you use them." "No, I don't!" "Yes, you use the wrong foot." "You have to lift this one first." "Hi." "Hi!" "You look nice." "Ready to go?" "Sure." "Bye." "Bye." "She wouldn't have called if she didn't want you back." "And you want her back, right?" "Yes." "Good, it was so empty here without that picture." "You didn't even set a place for him?" "Was he even invited?" "He'd rather not be here." "We're talking about Terje, not dad." "You can't pretend he doesn't exist." "Nice blouse, Jenny." "Thank you." "I'd better go home and get things ready." "You can bring her here, if..." "If what?" "Your father..." "He's fine." "He called Georg his "guard moron"." "Good luck tomorrow, Georg." "Thank you." "Do you have to leave, Jenny?" "No." "Sure you can't stay?" "Yes." "She doesn't hate you." "She screamed, "Who are you?"" "It was creepy as hell." "She looked at me like I was..." "Dad?" "Yeah." "It'll pass." "How are things with you?" "Pretty good." "Dad's going to start work again." "And I'm seeing Hege tomorrow." "She actually called me." "Maybe everything will work out after all." "Speaking of which..." "I finished my book." "What?" "Read it if you have time, or want to." "Don't look so surprised." "Congrats!" "Has it been accepted?" "I'm meeting them tomorrow." "But it's better than the last one, so..." "190 pages?" "A little much, maybe?" "I'm proud of you." "It sure felt great to pull my head out of my ass and finally submit it." "So you're doing well." "Yes, besides mom thinking I'm the Antichrist." "That will pass." "And that the coolest girl I've ever met was our sister." "You'd rather date your half sister?" "Yes." "And get kids that were totally..." "I'd rather have 12 little retards than know she's half dad, like us." "Half dad plus half dad?" "That would make 12 dads." "You really suck at math!" "No, I don't!" "Yes, you do." "You're a total retard!" "What does your mom think about you living with Frank?" "I couldn't care less." "Both she and grampa knew that dad lived here and wanted to contact me." "You call him "dad"?" "Yeah?" "He is her father, Bente." "Sure." "I try to avoid anything that has to do with him." "But..." "But what?" "If your mother has one version of the story, and Frank another..." "Frank's version isn't necessarily the right one." "So you don't think he wanted any contact with me?" "He may have wanted it, deep inside." "But..." "But that he didn't try?" "I don't know." "Say what you're trying to say, Bente." "Don't buy everything he says." "He's manipulative." "He likes to set people up against each other, likes to play the victim." "But I doubt he wanted any contact with you." "I remember he prepared a case against your grandfather." "Maybe because he wanted to see me." "Maybe?" "He must have had some positive sides." "Bye." "Bye." "Fine, I know it's none of my business." "He considered them inferior." "He would never acknowledge Jenny." "Why not let her believe otherwise?" "He divides and conquers." "She hates her family based on his lies." "Let her figure that out for herself." "I know." "Shit!" "Don't we have a single glass of wine left?" "Look at this, Liv!" "Do you think we drink too much?" "Nah." "But maybe you've been drinking a little fast lately?" "Have you been timing me?" "You know Georg leaves when you pour your fourth glass." "He does." "Nonsense!" "Does he really?" "Maybe we should try having a dry month?" "Please?" "OK." "Good." "Have you prepared what to say?" "What the...?" "They will call you." "What time is it?" "I'll tell them you're ready to work." "Why would they believe me this time?" "I think your only option is   to apologize profusely and admit that you were unwell back then." "Try to get some rest now." "OK?" "I realize now that I overestimated my work capacity." "I may have shown poor judgment regarding my own evaluation, but..." "Did you take my cufflinks?" "No." "There." "On the table." "Ready to go?" "I'm going." "You stay here." "Are you driving yourself?" "There's nothing wrong with me." "Have you slept at all?" "Sure you don't want me to drive you?" "HONK IF YOU LOVE ALCOHOL" "Wait!" "Hi." "Did you write that on his car?" "Did you just discover it now?" "I wondered why so many people honked at us." "Admit that it was a little funny." "Sure, it was funny, but you know it always comes back to me." "Not once you've moved out." "Good luck with Hege today." "Good luck to you too." "So you had time to read everything?" "Eh, no." "I don't think that will be necessary." "OK." "Good." ""Advertising and glazed Hollywood dramas   have made the West unable to relate on an interpersonal level."" ""The West measures its life through the glass boob"?" "That may be entertaining, but you haven't made any choices." "This isn't an essay collection or a novel." "You start with a distinct, academic tone." "But this isn't a comparative study." "You give the impression it's research." "It is research!" "Not comparative." ""The West sobs behind expensive curtains."" "Isn't that the truth?" "Sure, Terje." "Or is it just you?" "What?" "That I'm the West?" "That I sob behind expensive curtains?" ""The West sucks Satan's cock for a house and a Volvo"?" "Not exactly level-headed." "Why the hell would you want level-headed?" "You don't understand anything!" "Go home to your comfy houses." "Read 100-year-old novels and get ear-fucked by Schubert and Brahms." "All those perfumed assholes..." "That's enough!" "The three of us had high hopes after your last book." "But this one has in no way met our expectations." "Try a different publisher." "What are you doing?" "Prying." "Haven't you ever pried before?" "What is this?" "Terje, of course." ""Anne Frank is a skank."" "Did he get in trouble?" "Mom lost it." "Dad laughed for days." "Make sure you put everything back." "Simply working...in...this country...." "Move your car, dammit!" "You can't stop here!" "I have a very important meeting!" "Very important!" "You can't park there!" "I most certainly can." "Simply working in this country..." "HONK IF YOU LOVE ALCOHOL" "Move your car!" "My God..." "Get back here!" "I see." "Yes." "Yes, he had an important meeting." "Yes, a real one." "Yes, I understand." "Bye." "It's all a lie." "He never wanted me." "You have to clean this up." ""If I hear from you about anything but the car, I'll see to it that..."" "Have you torn out pages?" "And he accuses mom of being a liar." "How could he be so deceitful?" "Stop cleaning up!" "No, I can't!" "You can make a mess or go to war, but it always comes back to me!" "Always!" "This is the one place we are not allowed to be." "Anyway, he won't be back." "He's been committed again." "He didn't even make it out of town." "Hey, mister." "You all right?" "Need some help?" "Help?" "Thank God, the Americans!" "Let's just go back." "Hey, have you found any weapons of mass destruction yet?" "Goddamn piece-of-shit city!" "Miserable wretch of a population." "Horse piss!" "They sit there sipping their caffe latte   and umbrella drinks." "They think they're so cosmopolitan." "Oslo is this big." "Hi there." "CALL ME Always willing!" "What do you like girls to do?" "Do?" "To be honest, I like it when they take their clothes off." "Stripping doesn't work well over the phone." "And it's no fun for me." "For you?" "Listen, pussycat, aren't you supposed to be a fantasy?" "I'm paying...28 kroner a minute." "Christ!" "Fine." "I'll strip." "I'm taking off my shirt." "Do you want to know what I'm wearing underneath?" "Nah." "You didn't call for sex, did you?" "What do you want to talk about?" "Answer me this:" "Do you think people believe that everything will work out in the end?" "Or does everyone know we're going to hell, but no one dares say it?" "People choose to believe that everything will work out." "You can't just choose that." "Yes, you can." "No!" "Hang on." "What do you need?" "Drugs!" "Terje?" "Hello?" "Hang on." "I have the notice here." "It clearly says the second week of December, not the first." "I think it's too soon." "He isn't getting any better here." "It doesn't help to wait." "This usually blows over." "Think about Georg, Henriette." "That's exactly what I'm doing!" "Frank needs to go home." "That's why Georg is here." "Hello?" "It's up to you, Georg." "Don't be so premenstrual, Henriette!" "Give me the car keys." "Come on." "You stay in the basement." "I don't want you prying." "Where is my car?" "You have to remember that he's sick, not evil." "He's in there somewhere." "What you do is admirable." "Really." "I'm sure you'd do the same thing." "Mom wanted to move in." "I said no." "I'm sure she meant well." "She loves it when I flop." "Do you really think so?" "I was on a TV show when I was 9." "Mom wrote that application." "Using childish handwriting, and my name." "But when I was selected, she became jealous, not happy." "Why do people love to hate me, Georg?" "People love to say that I don't have soul, that I can't speak English." "Why is it so funny that I've made a lousy album?" "A lot of others fail too." "Why me?" "Maybe people think that if you can make it, they can make it." "When you fail, they're relieved." "Then they don't have to try themselves." "I should write that down." "They think that...?" "You don't care what people think." "Say what you said again." "What do you mean?" "About me not being like them." "Hey!" "Hi there, Jenny!" "So they've already let you out?" "Yes." "They can't figure out what's wrong with my foot." "You can't stop spouting lies." "Say what?" "You can't stop spouting lies." "Didn't you say you wanted contact with me?" "Of course." "You did everything in your power not to see me!" "Have you gone through my papers?" "You never wanted any contact with me." "Your grandfather blackmailed me." "Bullshit!" "He never threatened you." "You know nothing." "Stay out of my office!" "You've told me nothing but lies." "You're nothing but a classic, first-class psycho!" "Right." "If you believe   that I am the only one who has paid child support all these years,   you are wrong." "Arnt..." "He made her do it." "He made her sleep with all these men,   so that he could call around afterward and demand payment." "The odds of me being your actual father are probably   one in one hundred." "Why do you say that?" "I didn't want to say anything about this." "But since you rifled through my office..." "You aren't sick." "I don't feel sorry for you." "You are 100 % evil." "Take that back, you fucking monster!" "Solveig is a whore." "And you are a whore's..." "I have to catch the last train." "Have you lost some weight?" "You have." "Maybe some." "3.5 kilos." "How about another glass of wine?" "You can catch a train tomorrow." "Have you lost some weight, too?" "Who, me?" "No." "You look good." "I love it when you sing, "Hold me up..."" "Hi." "This is..." "Jenny." "Georg's sister." "Hey..." "What?" "He'll take it out on you." "Never mind that." "Don't worry." "Where are you going?" "I don't know." "You have to know." "I'll be fine." "I hope you realize you have the world's best boyfriend." "Where are you going to stay?" "At a friend's." "I'd rather not meet him." "You won't have to." "I live here, he lives up there." "Anyway, he's probably asleep by now." "I have a visitor, dad." "Hi." "Hege." "Jenny couldn't take any more of you." "I have a visitor." "Go to bed." "She called you a pig." "Whatever." "Good night." "She couldn't handle your insults." "And your groping..." "Honestly!" "Go out and wash your writing off my car." "You know that wasn't me." "Have you forgotten you have another son?" "Terje." "Remember him?" "Right, Terje." "Terje has never been spiteful towards me." "I have a visitor." "Please." "Up you go." "You are the visitor, Georg." "You are." "For Christ's sake, Georg, you can't stay here!" "He isn't always like that." "CRITICAL DECODER ERROR" "It'll pass." "That's him." "Tomorrow it'll be like nothing has happened." "To him, maybe." "I should have listened to you." "Maybe it was better you didn't." "It's good to see you again." "You too." "Want some?" "No." "I woke up on a train this morning, a bag of speed in my pocket." "Are you into speed?" "No, I don't think so." "Me neither." "Everything is...gone, in a sense." "I quit my job." "My novel was rejected." "I have no plans, no money." "But aren't there other publishers you could try?" "They were right." "It's a piece of shit." "All my latest work is infantile crap." "No way!" "You've done fantastic things." "And you don't just talk about it, you actually do it." "No, I don't." "Look." "Motherfucking Earth." "It needs some grease." "That's awesome!" "It was meant as a response to that sculpture out by the airport." "But nothing came of it." "I spent ages building that." "And last year I spent several months   collecting recordings of different cultures' abusive language." "In the '70s Carl Sagan sent this record into space." "It was meant to represent us, to aliens." "It's full of children's laughter and nice things." "Like "welcome" in every language." "That's nice and romantic, but it's false advertising." "So I wanted to send up a CD with "fuck you" in every language." "But you did it!" "Do you see a rocket?" "That doesn't matter." "It'll just sit in one of my drawers forever, making an ass of itself,   along with my novel and Motherfucking Earth and..." "Beautiful things are sent into the cosmos,   while everything I create will just sit there." "But that's OK." "Hey..." "You're my hero." "You're the coolest guy in the entire cosmos." "You too." "The coolest girl." "Can't we just..." "I don't want kids." "Can't we just..." "No." "Fine." "I should leave." "No, that isn't necessary." "Yes." "Hello?" "Hi, mom." "You're calling so late." "Is everything all right?" "Sure." "Sure, everything is great." "That's good." "What time is it?" "I was just wondering..." "how you were doing." "Me?" "I'm fine, I guess." "And how is grandpa?" "He wishes you weren't at Frank's." "Does he blame you?" "You know how he gets when he feels sorry for himself." "Can't you just..." "It will pass, honey." "I'm glad you're doing well." "I'll call you tomorrow." "Good night." "Good night, honey." "It's great that you want to go, but not now." "You haven't slept." "You've been drinking." "I'm wide awake." "Give me the keys." "No!" "Go to bed." "No!" "I understand that he wants to go." "OK." "I'll call you soon." "Bye." "I'm going with you, of course." "No, you stay here!" "OK?" "Please?" "Don't you dare treat me like a dog!" "Just drive." "Everything will be fine." "Let me be blunt, Terje." "It's not that I don't care about you." "But I can't have a son who's a drug addict." "I'm not capable." "I won't spend my old age on that." "So either be my son, which I know you'd rather not,   or be a drug addict." "Mom..." "But you can't be both!" "Hi." "Hi." "Hi there." "Lucky that someone found you." "You could say that." "Dad's here." "Huh?" "This was unfortunate." "Yes." "Unfortunate." "It was an accident." "It won't happen again." "Did that speed simply fall into your nose?" "I thought you had outgrown this." "You've always had a fine head on your shoulders, Terje." "The weak conspire against people like us." "But was it all in vain?" "You were the intelligent one of you two." "But you never applied it." "Are you hearing this, Georg?" "Do you hear what he is saying?" "Dad, you aren't even smart enough to be a closet Nazi." ""The weak conspire against us." Don't compare me to you!" "Ever!" "You can go to hell!" "How the hell can you say that?" "He called you retarded." "No, he called you intelligent!" "And you spit in his face." "You spoiled brat." "That's me, a spoiled daddy's boy." "Think I want his clammy hand?" "Why do you follow him?" "Do you want to be like him?" "I will never be like him, because he admires you." "But I don't admire you anymore." "You're a self-centered idiot!" "He didn't really mean that." "So he actually submitted a complete manuscript?" "That must have been quite a shock." "He isn't used to being rejected." "I've found a place to stay." "In Oslo." "I have a friend there who's in art school." "He said I could stay with him." "Not before you graduate?" "I have a room here." "Usually new teachers stay in it." "But it's vacant now." "Are you kidding?" "You're too smart to quit school now." "Dear Joakim, you should be glad that Hege isn't your mother..." "You have no right to read that." "You have written sick letters to my aborted fetus!" "Have you lost your mind?" "I have no maternal instinct?" "I was angry!" "But you tell your son you have panic attacks in the sauna?" "You're worse than your father." "Never." "For your kids' sake, I hope you never have kids!" "I'd make a great father." "I read everything." "Of course you read everything." "I'm not allowed to have anything to myself!" "Greedy bitch!" "Everything I wrote about you was true!" "You're insane." "Both of you." "Hi, this is Nina." "Hi, it's Terje." "Hi, Terje!" "How are you doing?" "Not well." "Not well at all." "Is the universe indifferent towards you again?" "No, it's more along the lines of my family hating me." "That's better than indifference." "I don't know." "Does anyone else care about you?" "I'm not particularly..." "lovable, I guess." "If you care about someone, they'll care about you." "It isn't that simple." "Yes, it is." "Maybe in the world of phone sex, but..." "In the real world it isn't enough to read "The Tiny Things"." ""The Little Things."" "Whatever." "Have you read it?" "Sure." "I don't think you have." "Your mind it may wander and spread its wings" "And lead to neglect..." "Stop it!" "This is the most intimate thing I've ever done." "Shut up and listen!" "Or should I talk about your cock?" "Go ahead and sing." "Your mind it may wander and spread its wings" "And lead to neglect of the little things" "As if you can never find peace or calm" "And always you long for another home" "You think that your life is so wretched and poor" "What is your aim, what are you waiting for?" "If you find it a struggle to take life slow" "Nothing will sprout and nothing will grow" "Step into your cottage, no matter how small" "It holds what you treasure most of all" "Cry out in the forest and no one will hear" "Seek your way back to what you find dear" "That happiness you search for both far and wide" "Perhaps you have carried it deep inside" "No need to chase in a restless ring" "Simply learn to cherish the little things" "Subtitles:" "Nick Norris"