"I spent half my life trying not to be like my father." "Did you succeed?" "No." "Screw this!" "What do you expect to find here?" "But I found something out after dad died." "I had inherited my fear of becoming like my father." "Did you think I was brain damaged?" "It's never too late for an unhappy childhood." "He is cheap, cynical, racist, stupid..." "He has positive sides." "Name one!" "Would you like a sandwich?" "Sure." "Still waters don't run deep, Liv, they're brackish!" "I might as well talk to the toilet." "Then do!" "I'm talking to you!" "I have every right." "Drugs!" "Don't we have a single glass left?" "Don't compare me to you." "You can go to hell!" "You're worse than your father." "Not a chance." "Do you want to be like him?" "I'll never be like him, because he admires you!" "You've never done anything for anyone!" "I have a visitor, dad." "You are the visitor, Georg." "You are." "Georg!" "Gin and tonic in the middle of the day?" "To keep the mosquitos away." "They're in Africa." "See?" "It works!" "Hi, is it you?" "What?" "Are you a lesbian?" "Get yourself to a doctor!" "Hi, dad!" "Hi, Georg!" "Are you going fishing like that?" "Is it Henrik Ibsen?" "No." "I met a chick." "A chick?" "You?" "I thought you were a homo!" "Get me a shrink!" "Say hi to Jenny." "That's my daughter!" "What?" "!" "You're all loco." "Jenny!" "Dad..." "Do I have to go fishing alone?" "Yes." "Can't you do anything alone, my little mongo child?" "Pussy boy." "Loser." "Dad!" "Ow, dad!" "Dad, you're killing me!" "That isn't a guard dog." "I told you to get a Rottweiler!" "NORWEGIAN COZY" "It's about time!" "Right." "It's been a while." "Come in." "I'm glad you're here, Mons." "I have the paperwork upstairs." "Actually, Frank, I was..." "They know I'm planning to sue." "They want to have me declared insane." "Insane, Mons, insane!" "Like Louis ll or Hamsun or Copernicus." "Start taking notes." "You see, Frank, I'm actually here to talk to Georg." "Georg is bought and paid for by the hospital." "They pay him to call me insane." "Start taking notes!" "Write this down, Mons." "Hi." "Hi there." "I thought he was talking to himself." "Make sure to identify him as a hospital spokesman, not my son." "Frank, I'm serious." "This is a private conversation." "Please leave, so we can talk." "Does he drink this early?" "I don't think he's been to bed." "This is not good, Georg." "Things are pretty bad these days." "I've been worried about you." "You don't answer the phone." "You haven't submitted anything to the paper in weeks." "Isn't this too much for you, Georg?" "Taking care of everything alone?" "There are professionals who can deal with this." "Psychiatrists." "You can't do this on your own." "I told you how he was, when we first met after I came back." "I know you did." "And what did you say then?" "Have you forgotten?" "You regretted breaking all ties with your dad." "You said you became like him by avoiding him." ""He who breaks all ties, loses." Remember that?" "Your words." "I doubted you, but it's a little late to state the opposite now." "You're right." "I'm sorry." "But I had no idea..." "I think I'll leave." "You know, Mons..." "If you had stuck with your father, before he died..." "Things wouldn't be as nice as they are inside your head right now." "This place is great!" "No reason for it to stand empty." "It's better that you stay here." "It's huge." "There's room for..." "Do you have a boyfriend?" "No." "How is Georg doing?" "He doesn't answer his phone." "You can't reach him either?" "No." "Can't you?" "Look at the bathroom." "Hello?" "Hi, it's Terje." "A dry month." "I'm glad you came." "Bente will be thrilled." "Are you doing better?" "Yes, slowly but surely." "I don't have a job or any plans or idea of what to do, but..." "Mom thinks I'm a druggie, so I thought I'd clear that up." "What about the pub?" "I quit." "I never considered that the book would be rejected, so I just quit." "Do you need some money?" "Nah." "That is, I do, but..." "It doesn't seem right to ask for that now." "Of course we can lend you some money." "You're her son, Terje." "Hi." "Hi." "How are you doing?" "All right." "I thought I'd drop by and say hi." "That's nice." "Have you heard from your brother?" "No." "Me neither." "He won't even pick up the phone." "Do you want something to eat?" "Is there anything you need?" "Liv said that I could maybe borrow some money." "We have plenty of food in the freezer." "You can just help yourself." "How much do you need?" "It's for the rent, mom." "Bye." "Bye." "Are you happy now?" "Did you get him to humiliate himself enough?" "You know what that money is for." "You know he's not a druggie!" "You gave your apartment to a stranger,   but when your son needs a loan, you act like some indignant old dyke." "What are you saying?" "I encouraged him to ask for money, because I assumed you would behave." "He came here and apologized, in his own way." "Sure, like you know Terje better than me." "Stop telling me how to be a mother!" "That's irrelevant." "You know nothing about having kids." "This is about you!" "You're mad because Terje refused to become your obedient little lap dog." "Is that really how you feel?" "How long have you felt like that?" "I'm tired of you and your family." "Then why don't you just leave?" "!" "Are you planning on leaving me?" "The Norwegian mountains are nothing   compared to his 1000-km long trek to the North Pole." "Sit!" "Good boy." "Hi." "Hi." "Is this where there's a room?" "No." "Are you Frank?" "No, you're Georg." "Your father said you were moving out." "Excuse me." "Niko!" "No, Niko!" "I'm sorry." "He just ate your pizza." "Good." "I took this notice from the liquor store." "I'm glad you did." "The thing is, my father is not well." "He has his own perception of reality." "And lately his reality has been far from our reality." "That's exactly what he said about you." "You don't want to live here." "I understand." "Is he here?" "He insisted I speak directly with him, not with you." "I don't think that's a good idea." "He's pretty confused, so..." "I don't think so." "Actually, I think he's sleeping right now." "Sit." "Help!" "Dad?" "Come help me." "In there." "If you could..." "Grab him under there." "One, two..." "There we go!" "Good." "Still want to move in?" "I'm sorry." "Don't be." "Don't you know anyone here?" "A bad relationship led me here." "I know people elsewhere." "Want to borrow money for a hotel?" "No, no." "Isn't it scary not to have plans?" "No." "Does it scare you?" "Yes, it does." "You've never stepped outside, with no plan for the rest of the day?" "Or the week?" "Or your life?" "Nope." "You should try it." "Sometimes it can be wet, cold and nasty." "But once you get in the flow, you can end up in the most wonderful places." "That flow might work for you, but I'd flow straight into the shitter." "I don't think that's for me." "Come with me." "Into the flow?" "Yeah." "Nah." "You have to take care of him?" "Right." "Come on, Niko." "But I can give you a call, if I..." "If I find something." "Yes, that would be nice." "Come on, boy." "Bye." "Bye." "Hi, Georg." "There you are." "You've been hard to reach." "Is something wrong?" "No." "Because you'd tell me, right?" "Hang on, mom." "It's mom, not the hospital." "Give me the phone." "I'll call you back, mom." "It isn't the hospital." "Let me talk to them." "Do you want to talk to mom?" "Here you go." "Hello?" "It isn't the hospital!" "That's it, dad." "I'm moving out." "I've pulled you out of the bathtub twice." "You'd be dead if it wasn't for me!" "You haven't slept in ages." "I am wide awake." "Take this Valium and go to bed." "Please, dad." "You have to sleep." "Who would I call?" "There's no one to call anyway." "Don't you have a life of your own?" "I thought you were in Pakistan." "I came home." "Get kicked out?" "No." "I couldn't do anything there." "What did you expect from Quran school?" "Sorry." "Tell me about it." "It sucked!" "Can't you see I'm busy?" "Does your dad know you're back?" "No, and you're not telling him." "But you're robbing him?" "I'm not robbing him." "It looks like it." "This isn't his money." "Maybe it was before, but not anymore." "Know that taxi he was going to buy?" "He never will." "With the profits from this place, he could have bought one...in 2050." "The only way to quick money is to win the Lottery,   or through these stupid machines." "But he didn't do it because he dreamt of being a cab driver." "He did it to make you proud of him." "He gambled away all his money, so you wouldn't be ashamed of him." "I've never met a man who loves his son more." "All he cares about is you." "And he is devastated because you hate him." "What are you doing?" "Don't stop!" "This is the best thing that can happen to him." "Rob the people who robbed your dad, and give the money back to him." "Here we go." "Hi." "So you didn't like it at your dad's?" "I'm just here for my things." "This place looks like hell." "Has that lawyer's fancy habits made you too good for us?" "You look like hell." "What do you care?" "Don't you worry about me." "I'm not." "I'm worried about mom." "She was devastated when you ran away." "You might as well have stabbed her in the heart." "Do you want to hurt your mother that much?" "Jenny?" "What, are you stealing?" "Mom is coming with me." "You may be too good for us, but Solveig stays here." "She lives here!" "In order to take care of you?" "What is it this time?" "Diabetes?" "Brittle bones?" "M.E.?" "You aren't sick!" "I don't feel sorry for you!" "You never have been sick!" "You're nothing but a..." "You're a classic first-class psycho!" "That's what you are." "A psycho!" "You've become such a snob you can't even swear properly." "What makes you think Solveig wants to live with your demented father?" "Please don't do this to me, Jenny." "Liv, could I please have a word with you?" "Alone, Torunn." "Sure you'll be all right?" "You may leave." "That woman..." "I used to try to dress like you two." "I know." "At the end of the day I went home to my family." "I was the woman we laughed at." "I've heard it all before." "You don't understand what a phony..." "Yes, I do, Bente." "There's nothing you or I can do to change that." "I have a lesson." "When you say people don't change, it makes me want to kill myself." "You can laugh at self-help books because you don't need them." "But with all my bad decisions..." "I know, Bente!" "I know what your life was like." "I realize that it takes time." "I realize you feel guilty about Terje and Georg." "But there isn't any room for me in all that." "I wish there was, but there isn't." "And I don't take much room." "I am lost without you." "I can try to give you more room." "I can change." "I heard the sound of glass breaking." "Probably that door." "What time was it?" "One, maybe two?" "I'm not really sure." "Everything will be OK." "Like hell it will." "What if my son comes home?" "How will I provide for him?" "I wasn't insured." "Everything will be OK." "Why are you so positive?" "Have a cigarette." ""Once upon a time there was a little boy called Rayad."" ""He had such a small penis..." Remember?" "Remember the rest of it?" "No, not really." "I read your book." "It's excellent." "It wasn't too subjective?" "What, subjective?" "They meant I wrote about myself." "That's what made it so good." "I've read two novels a week for 30 years." "I know more about literature than you or that shitty publisher of yours." "A break-in." "Really?" "Can we talk?" "I have said things that I..." "It's OK, mom." "No, it isn't." "I've just been so angry." "It's OK." "Don't apologize." "Let's forget about it." "I don't want to be at war with you." "That's why I came over yesterday." "I know." "I'm sorry." "Remember how Georg carried you home when you fell off your bike?" "It seemed like he carried you every other day." "He knew how to comfort you." "You used to be so close, you and Georg." "Do you know how he is doing?" "Is that why you came?" "So I can intervene between dad and Georg?" "Not at all." "But you've cleared everything up with Frank." "How "cleared up" is it to hide every time he walks by?" "It hasn't been easy to avoid him for so long." "But he was always so fond of you." "I didn't want that, mom!" "You sent me to talk to him when he was at his worst." "And I was nine!" "Terje, I..." "Stop." "I can't handle your guilt." "Have you talked to Georg?" "I tried yesterday, but Frank grabbed the phone." "Did you talk to him?" "No." "He had that voice again." "You know." "God, I hate him!" "If you hate him, he'll own you." "That isn't just an empty phrase." "You think everything is so easy for me." "That if I don't do something it's just because I'm lazy." "I never should have let Georg move in there." "Hi!" "Hi, come in." "My little girl!" "Thank you." "Wow!" "This place is great!" "This will be perfect for you." "Sure is nice of them to let you borrow this place." "They weren't using it anyways." "Did you bring that old thing?" "Lovely." "And this too?" "Nice." "And that lamp!" "Yeah, but it doesn't work anymore." "Does this fit you?" "A lot of this is mine, Jenny." "What is this?" "We're going to live here." "Have you moved me?" "Yeah." "This isn't how it works." "Not now when dad is so sick." "Yes." "Right now!" "This is sweet of you, but I am an adult." "You know how grampa gets." "Exactly!" "That's why we're staying here." "No, not like this." "Yes." "No." "Yes!" "You're staying here with me, mom!" "Hello?" "No." "No!" "No one there?" "Probably just a wrong number." "Do you feel better now?" "You've slept plenty." "Dad, it was no one." "It was Arnt." "What did he say?" "He's coming to kill us." "Then let's call the police." "He's coming for you, since you started it." "He said he was going to kill me?" "Yes." "Go down to the basement." "You always said nuclear war was coming, but it never came." "You told me to hide in the sauna in order to survive." "That's a sick way to get your kicks, dad." "I won't give you the pleasure of seeing me scared again." "Hi." "Hi." "I didn't think you were home." "I just came for some things." "Are you hungry?" "No, I'm just..." "Can't you stay a little while?" "We don't have to talk about it." "Listen, there is one thing..." "I don't want you to think that Torunn and I..." "She is a lovely lady." "No, she isn't." "She's horrible." "A parody." "She's worse than that "felt uterus" lady of yours." "She gave me a CD today." ""Liv, I want you to listen to this with an open mind." "It will help you."" ""Deep relaxation." As if I need that!" "My God!" "I want to know how you and Torunn spend your evenings." "He instructed us to lie down." "Stop it!" "You've never stepped outside, with no plan for the rest of the day?" "Or the week?" "Or your life?" "Stop it!" "Do you live in here?" "Do you?" "No?" "Then get lost!" "Get lost!" "Beware, beware..." "Beware, beware..." "You have reached Georg..." "Shit!" "What is this?" "He's groping us!" "Did you hide that there?" "Yes." "Better than hiding it in the closet." "We should never have let shame get between us and a good Cabernet." "To a shorter, but much more pleasant life." "Maybe we never should have had a dry month." "Bente..." "I know." "I know." "Dad?" "I'm leaving now." "I'll let the hospital know, so..." "I don't think you'll survive here alone." "And you think you'll make it alone out there?" "Yes." "Do you hear anything?" "No." "Lie down." "Lie down!" "Shit, dad!" "Dad, give me that gun." "Arnt is out there." "No, no one is here." "Please." "Please give me that gun." "Lie down!" "Put down that gun, OK?" "Please." "Dad, there is no one here." "Arnt is here." "Lie down, Georg!" "Arnt is out there." "No one is here!" "Arnt isn't here!" "Arnt is not outside!" "Look!" "There is no one out here!" "No one!" "Lie down." "Arnt is right outside." "Arnt is right outside the window." "Please, dad." "Please." "Solveig?" "Have you lost your mind?" "I brought your car." "I'll put the keys on the table." "Where are Jenny and Solveig?" "Where are they?" "Solveig?" "They aren't here." "Get out." "What have you done, Frank?" "You realize that I am legally insane?" "Where is Jenny?" "You mean the bastard girl that showed up here?" "Half human, half Sami?" "Shut up!" "I kicked her out." "Look at yourself, the proud lawyer." "You're nothing but a joke." "Is that some decorative rifle?" "You've never touched anything but paper." "You were born a bitch." "Go ahead, shoot me." "You have taken everything..." "Shit!" "Georg?" "Hello?" "Where is Georg?" "Gone." "Georg is...gone." "And I..." "Am a joke." "Did you ever imagine that, Terje?" "That I would end up a joke?" "I wish you hadn't seen me like this." "You don't look great." "Remember when we went for that walk in the park, you and I?" "When we fooled the tourists?" "You fooled them." "Said, "The castle burned down yesterday."" "You were ten years old." "Spoke fluent English." "That was the best day   of my entire life." "You hadn't forgotten about that, had you, Terje?" "You hadn't forgotten?" "We had a good time together, you and I." "But they ruined it." "Did Georg say where he was going?" "Where did he go?" "Georg, Georg..." "All this nagging about Georg." "He's gone." "Gone!" "What have you done, dad?" "Huh?" "What the hell have you done?" "Don't touch him!" "Georg..." "Were you trying to make him think I was dead?" "Did it amuse you that I was hiding?" "What are you two doing here?" "Do you have a phone?" "Where does your cruelty come from?" "Get out of here!" "We need an ambulance to 5 Rådyr Street." "It's my father." "He's been assaulted." "It looks like his nose and jaw have been smashed." "And both his arms." "His chin may be smashed too." "I don't know, with a shovel or something." "Good." "Thank you." "I didn't think you had it in you, Georg." "Is this what you have missed, dad?" "Is this what I lacked?" "I've been better than you my entire life." "Let's go, Terje." "Dear Joakim." "That father-and-son bonding never happened." "We never cried and made up." "Terje was right." "You shouldn't put up with your family at all costs." "But he was also wrong." "This was harder for him than for me." "You can't deal with patricide from a distance." "It cost me nothing to finally make a clean break with dad." "I was ready." "Terje was only ready in theory." "Remember that, Joakim." "If you should ever start hating me." "It doesn't help to run." "Family never leaves you." "Maybe this was necessary, for Terje and me to become brothers again." "It sure has become easier." "Even nice." "Terje has become easier." "Search for:" "The West." "Replace with:" "Me." "A few minor changes to his book, and it became a bestseller." ""My Demise." "A Comparative Study of Myself and the Roman Empire."" "That's quite a mouthful." "I meant to ask you about the protagonist." "Could it be Western civilization?" "Sure, you could say that." "While I, Joakim, have all the space in the world." "As promised, I called Kajsa." "She lives downstairs now." "That is, she lives both upstairs and down." "She's a flexible lady." "Not really my type at all." "But I could be wrong." "Shit, no more condoms." "Does that matter?" "Doesn't it?" "OK." "Subtitles:" "Nick Norris"