"Not without talking to me, Hege!" "I had an abortion." "You have killed Joakim!" "It's a small town." "You strangled a celebrity." "I'll be back every day." "He's your father too, Terje." "I'm here on behalf of my father." "Did Frank send you?" "Your mother is imitating an Indian who's imitating a bear   that has to take a crap." "Hello?" "Arnt?" "Tell your father to stay away from me and my family!" "You're crazy about me." "Where do you live?" "Say you don't want me, and I promise I'll never bother you again!" "Dad has..." "So you're not stupid?" "If I see you again, I'll shoot you." "You raped his daughter." "You know nothing!" "Move out and let him die!" "I'm your half-brother." "I apologize for calling you what I called you." "Another shot?" "Hi, Georg." "I thought you were a car." "I want to meet him." "Is life working out for you, Georg?" "Not really." "So you'll be staying a little longer?" "The wonders of nature never cease to amaze man." "The majesty of the mountains." "The endless calm of the sea." "The grace of the animals." "Man himself creates wonderful things." "He sees and appreciates beauty and all that is good." "But he forgets that of all Earth's wonders,   man himself is the most wonderful of all!" "NORWEGIAN COZY" "What's he like, mom?" "I don't know, honey." "She's too early." "It isn't Jenny, dad." "It's from the hospital." "Hi!" "Hi." "Did you invite her?" "No." "I just thought I'd drop by." "I'm on my way to mom's, and dad's expecting a visitor." "This will only take five minutes." "Sorry I didn't call first." "I brought pastries." "Wow!" "This place is spotless." "Well, Frank, how do you feel things are going?" "I thought the hospital had promised to leave me alone,   as long as I let that person stay in my house." "Isn't that the case?" "Not exactly." "So now what?" "I want to see how you are doing." "Tell Gro and the rest of the hospital administration,   that it takes something worse than him to break me." "You think you'd be fine without Georg?" "I broke my foot." "I'm not paralyzed." "He sits down there watching porn, chomping on my painkillers." "Going to pot." "I haven't touched your pills." "Two blister packs, gone." "And I don't watch..." "Henriette, he's lying." "Dad, this is nonsense." "He's going to pot because of your hospital's vendetta against me." "You're creating a new loser you can experiment with." "And people say Mengele was crazy!" "You asked for this yourself, Frank." "If you don't know..." "Stop pretending!" "Stop pretending that this is something I want." "Are you finished?" "Use your indoor voice, Frank." "Why didn't you call first?" "We've been doing fine here." "I was supposed to come unannounced." "It's been almost tolerable here." "He's behaved, been sober." "And now this?" "It isn't about you." "He thinks the hospital is out to get him." "I haven't touched his pills!" "I know that." "He hasn't been like this for ages." "Less than a week ago, he asked me to stay." "He's meeting his daughter today." "Is that today?" "He didn't need this." "You didn't either." "You can make it cozy down here." "I don't watch TV all day." "I start work tomorrow at the local paper." "Good for you." "You have to take care of yourself, too." "Don't worry about me." "I'm not going to pot." "Talk to you later." "I'm going to mom's." "That was uncalled for." "I've documented that bitch's every move." "When I sue the hospital, you'll be my star witness." "You don't even have your law license." "What did you say?" "I doubt your case will hold up in court." "And you've been disbarred." "Beware, Georg!" "Where did you find that?" "In the cupboard." "I haven't tasted Thousand Island in 15 years." "I've missed the flavor." "You liked it when it was "in", mom." "We used to have it on everything." "Shouldn't you be there with them?" "No." "Dad made that very clear." "For her sake, poor girl." "She's a bright girl." ""Mature for her age."" "And dad seems fine now." "So you can move out?" "His head is fine." "But he still needs help." "Maybe Jenny would like to come here?" "You realize she isn't related to you?" "She's your half-sister." "That's good enough." "As few as we are, we can't be picky about family." "Unless she has Sunday dinner at home." "They don't seem the type." "As opposed to us." "Why do you find this so comical?" "It's just so new." "I don't force you to come here." "It would be nice to meet her." "Shouldn't it be called Thousand Islands?" "Because islands is plural?" "Yes." "One thousand island?" "One thousand island..." "Jenny told me something interesting about that ethnic dance of yours." "Where you imitate a bear emerging from its den." "People have always thought that was a war dance." "But bears hibernate." "They have to eat to store energy for the long winter..." "Frank Broch-Hansen." "Jenny." "Your place looks nice." "Hardly." "I always thought you lived abroad." "America or somewhere." "Or..." "That you were married and I was a secret." "That isn't so far from the truth." "When did you get divorced?" "Jenny, you have probably wondered why I never contacted you." "As an attorney, I have worked a great deal with custody cases." "There are thousands of fathers out there who never see their children." "Although they would like to." "Things were much worse 20 years ago." "Even after Bente developed such severe mental issues   that it became unbearable for us,   she was still granted primary custody." "I was powerless." "But it was different with you." "Your grandfather made it crystal clear that I was to stay away from you." "He actually threatened to kill me." "I knew it." "Grampa said it was the other way around, but I knew it." "That was a case I easily could have won." "But I felt it would be too much of a burden for your mother and Arnt." "And I hoped he would come to his senses." "I imagine it looks something like this." "Basically the Indians were imitating a bear that had to take a crap." "Crap, crap, crap!" "How did you become so incredibly anal, Terje?" "You don't give a shit about anything!" "Do you have to bring crap into my dance group, into everything you do?" "I like dancing, I like the women there, I like Norway and Sweden,   and I like Thousand Island!" "I just didn't think I was allowed to!" "But what do you like?" "You can go on for hours about everything you hate." "Probably including me." "But just tell me one thing you appreciate!" "Do you dare do that?" "Get out." "Sunday dinner is over." "For Christ's sake!" "Suddenly I'm the family asshole?" "Suddenly?" "You did go a little far." "Again." "I'm still going dancing." "He can't ruin that." ""Ha, ha." "Middle-aged lady at dance class."" "I know what I look like, but I don't care." "From now on, I'm going to eat Thousand Island whenever I want." "I've always liked it." "I've never liked arugula." "That's what you're supposed to eat now." "It is pretty bitter." "There are so many rules." "On the one hand he's totally Taliban." "But if I need something, he'll say:" ""I'm not your father." Exactly!" "Hi!" "Hello, Georg." "Hi." "How are things going here?" "Great, I think." "Great." "Then I won't disturb you." "We have cake." "Georg...is on a diet." "Right." "Talk to you later." "I'm letting Georg stay here until he gets his life together." "He's made a mess of things." "I've talked to him." "The local authorities pay him to take care of me." "I broke my foot." "But sometimes I wonder who's taking care of who." "MEET-A-GIRL.NO" "WHEN KITTY FEELS SICKLY" "Good morning." "Where were you yesterday?" "I took a trip to visit my...father." "I see." "He lives here." "But you knew that." "He's a good man." "Well-educated, polite, honest..." "Everything you're not." "But you knew that too." "And contrary to what I thought, he wanted to have contact with me." "So what psycho reason do you have for keeping him away from me?" "You too!" "You've both lied to me!" "Get a grip!" "You bitch!" "There..." "There you are, Georg!" "Excellent." "Welcome!" "Ready to get to work?" ""One must work continuously or else one thinks of death."" "I only work part-time, but..." "Check this out!" "It's on every channel." "Text." "The written word." "They said TV would kill the written word,   but now it's managed to sneak its way onto TV!" "And the picture is getting smaller and smaller." "I've measured." "Soon he'll just be a stamp in the corner." "The telephone was also supposed to kill the written word." "But no." "Today, most people write with their phones!" "Isn't that great?" "Sure." "Busy?" "Nope." "But I can always use capable people." "Where do you want to start?" "The desk?" "No, you have to write, Georg." "I haven't written in ages." "Have you worked at the desk?" "I mostly shortened obituaries." "Edited." "I have an interesting story   that you could start with." "This is still a very local paper." "I've gotten some calls about a foul smell at the post office." "Front page?" ""Poop at Post Office"." "Poop?" "Can you at least tell me if it isn't addressed to him?" "And it's all sent from Sweden, isn't it?" "Fine." "Thank you." "Yes." "Goodbye." "It's for Terje." "They are the gay bastard sons of formerly fascist Japan and Germany." "As orderly and bureaucratic as the Germans,   with the soulless imitations of the Japanese." "Boring fashion victims obsessed with progress." "Metrosexual, cock-nibbling fuck...fuckers." "I'm going to take a dump." "Here's the Swedish flag   and their national anthem for your viewing and listening pleasure." "That's Frank's son all right." "Don't say that." "Is it OK if we don't write a story on this?" "We'll have to try to find something your family isn't behind." "Wow!" "Can you tell me how the resource center..." "Gunn." "Hm?" "Gunn." "Gunn?" "Right..." "Eh, Gunn?" "Gunn?" "She wants to talk to you." "Who?" "Anisa." "MIND YOUR VALUABLES" "You've come this far." "You might as well come in." "What's this group for?" "Recently divorced men." "Be the bear!" "Be the bear!" "Come on!" "Excellent, girls!" "Great!" "Next step." "Remember, this is a war dance." "Let out all that good and bad energy." "When the drums stop,   release a real bear roar." "OK?" "Great!" "Roar as loud as you can, OK?" "Female sexuality is sophisticated, exotic, erotic,   hell, it's even poetic." "But what about our male sexuality?" "At best, it's ridiculous and crude." "At worst, dangerous and criminal." "We've always been told we're a bunch of pathetic wankers." "That's what this is about." "If we had been women, Jews, blind, dwarfs, this would be no big deal." "This meeting would be perfectly normal." "But we are white, western men." "We invented nuclear weapons." "We gassed the Jews, invaded Iraq." "We have the money and the power." "If you feel powerless, you're an idiot." "If you feel insulted, those women, Jews and dwarfs will laugh at you." "If you feel insulted, you're nothing but ridiculous and pathetic!" "Excellent, Bente!" ""It's so hard being a man," women say with malicious pleasure." "Feel sorry for you?" "You have nothing to blame!" "No one has discriminated you, no matter if your wife ran out on you." "You can't be victims!" "The role of the victim is not yours." "And that's an excellent starting point." "Let the others complain about being oppressed." "Look forward!" "Say, "Now what?" That's all that matters." "Now what?" "And let it out!" "Bente?" "What's the matter?" "An obsessive thought." "I don't want to ruin everything for you!" "This resin..." "It creates a sort of...plug." "In the bear's rectum." "So when he stomps around, it's to get rid of that plug." "That's the dance." "Basically the bear has to go to the bathroom." "How old is your son?" "Five?" "You don't believe that, do you?" "Think you're funny?" "Go to hell!" "Shit!" "Fuck them!" "Yeah." "Now what are you gonna do?" "I don't know." "I have to tend bar." "Be back in 6-7 hours." "OK." "Later." "Come on!" "Such an ancient tradition isn't based on a constipated bear." "That's an insult!" "Come on!" "Thank you, Bente!" "What we need now, is some red wine." "I know where to go." "Good, Johannes." "What about you, Georg?" "Huh?" "What about you?" "I don't know." "I'm here as a journalist." "So you're over your separation?" "No." "I..." "I understand what you mean about not finding our place." "I bought this lamp online." "Jabba the Hutt, from Star Wars." "I can be ambivalent when it comes to taste, but that lamp was cool!" "I really liked it." "But when it arrived, I realized it was a mistake." "My girlfriend had picked out the curtains, wallpaper, art, sofa." "Everything." "She laughed at my lamp." "And the more she laughed, the more I started thinking   that lamp looked like a fluorescent turd." "Anyway, I studied that lamp all night, and thought:" "Who the hell am I?" "I have no idea." "But Hege, my girlfriend, knew very well who I was." "She was always very clear about that." "It wasn't great, but it was something." "Now that we've broken up, I no longer know." "That's when we like to say:" "Now what?" "Find a new girlfriend?" "Is that what you need?" "No, I don't need a girlfriend." "But what I really want,   what I can't live without, is a kid." "And it helps to start with a girlfriend." "Preferably one who doesn't run off with the kid, or have an abortion." "Is that totally psycho?" "No, not at all." "Doesn't anyone else want kids?" "Most of these guys have kids." "What would it solve to have a kid?" "I don't have to solve anything." "I think I'd make a good father." "I'm full of love." "I have lots of ideas about how to be a dad." "My kid would never doubt that I loved him!" "No." "Everything else becomes secondary." "Hi." "Hi there!" "I tried calling first, but..." "I need a place to stay." "Is it Arnt?" "I don't think Arnt would like you moving in here." "Arnt can go to hell!" "I'm 18." "I'm never going back again." "Just until I find something else?" "Thank you." "Good night, daddy." "Good night." "Good night." "OK..." "This is the place!" "Give me your best red wine!" "Do you have bottles of red?" "Could I have a red wine?" "Does everyone want red wine?" "You've insulted me and all Native Americans!" "This wine is corked." "No, it is not corked." "It's from a box, OK?" "I think I know what you need, Bente." "Really?" "Yes, I do." "Next week, I'm making dinner for you and me." "I'm going to help you out of your shell." "With what kind of therapy?" "Gestalt." "Gestalt and red wine." "You'll be born again, Bente." "He would hide things." "Like his pipe." "And then accuse me of stealing it." "In the middle of the night." "He'd storm into my room:" ""Georg, have you stolen my pipe?"" "We both knew I hadn't, but he had some sort of crazy need   to dump his dark shit on me." "I tried to figure out what I had done to disappoint him so much." "Why was he so displeased?" "Sorry." "You must be dead tired." "Not at all." "How old is this "dad" you've been talking about?" "Your father." "How old was he when he was at his worst?" "Late 30s, I suppose." "Think back." "Be more specific." "Maybe he wasn't more than...32 or so." "32." "And you are?" "36." "You are older than your father, Georg." "And from what I've heard here, you're much less fucked up." "Hello?" "Hi there." "Shh..." "Where is Jenny?" "She's sleeping." "My daughter wasn't enough?" "You had to take my granddaughter too?" "It isn't like that!" "You're a tumor, Frank!" "We had an agreement, Frank." "You are ill, Frank." "Frank!" "Come here, Frank!" "Everyone in town knows you're ill, Frank." "We can help you, if you admit you have a problem." "Get out of here!" "But this is my office, Frank." "We're concerned about you, Frank." "Why don't you take some time off?" "This doesn't make any sense." "It makes sense!" "It all makes sense!" "Who are you talking to?" "Go down to the sauna!" "We had an agreement." "Go down to the sauna!" "MEET-A-GIRL.NO" "It makes sense!" "Frank, is someone here?" "Is it my grandfather?" "Go!" "Get into your room, Jenny!" "I'll...take care of this." "So this is where you keep her?" "Hey!" "Stop." "Turn around." "Here I come." "Why are you running around, dad?" "I'm the only one here." "Right." "Right." "And Jenny." "No." "I'm the only one here." "Jenny was here earlier." "It's the middle of the night." "We're alone." "My God, Jenny!" "What are you doing here?" "Has my grandfather left?" "I heard him arguing with Frank." "No, he hasn't been here." "But..." "No." "No one has been here." "Jenny will stay downstairs with me." "Nonsense, I've made her bed." "Go downstairs, first door on the left." "What are you trying to do, Georg?" "You scared Jenny with your yelling." "Nonsense!" "I haven't been yelling." "The door is locked." "No one has been here." "You imagined everything." "Beware, Georg!" ""Beware" no longer works, dad." "What is it?" "Nothing." "Nothing." "Want a beer?" "Sure." "Thanks." "No, no, no, no..." "No, no, no..." "No." "No!" "Good I didn't call the police." "Yeah." "Dad's called the police himself, when his paranoia was at its worst." "So no one was here?" "No, he just gets like that." "Especially when he drinks." "Don't you get scared?" "Sure, but..." "Not tonight." "For the first time, he wasn't my father." "He was just some confused, sick man." "As if..." "I was more mature than he was." "THE DEMISE OF THE WESTERN WORLD" "Shit..." "You'll pay for that!" "Me?" "You're supposed to be watching him!" "Isn't that where my taxes go?" "It isn't finished yet." "I'll tell you when." "She came of her own free will." "You can come get her." "This is good, Georg." "They're starting a kids' theater." "Thought I could write about that." "Super duper!" "Where can I find Terje's page?" "It got shut down, after Sweden." "What's he doing now?" "Working on his book, maybe?" "You choose if you want to be an "assfucker" or an "assfuckee"." "Fantastic!" "And I make 30 kroner every 15 minutes, around the clock." "Here." "Send this to "assfuckee"." "There." "Now we wait." "Fantastic!" "Can I submit a picture?" "Go for it." "Is "assfuckee" with two e-s?" "There." "Who should we find for you, you bitch?" "Perfect!" "Hi!" "Have you seen what your..." "my...our brother is up to now?" "Beer?" "Sure." "The world has been waiting for this." "Wouldn't it be funny with Hege and..." "No, I don't think so." "You've never wanted to "punish fuck"?" "No!" "I sure have." "Like the Junior Olsen Gang from that movie." "They're so cocky." "I have trouble picturing that." "I do feel guilty, leaving mom alone with my grandfather." "But she should have left ages ago." "She has wasted her whole life on him." "I should have left sooner too." "And we should have left dad." "And gone where?" "Anywhere would have been better." "But moving back in with him is psycho." "You should get out too, Jenny." "He's sick, Terje, not dangerous." "And our childhood years weren't hell." "Dad wasn't some evil tyrant." "No excuse for you being such a darky." "I'm not a darky!" "Want to stay with a floor-shitter?" "I've stopped doing that." "Or with dad and me?" "I want to get to know him." "Why, Jenny?" "Because he's my dad." "Only biologically." "There's nothing of you in him." "He's self-absorbed, pompous, stingy, cynical, racist, stupid..." "That's enough, Terje." "He has positive sides too." "He was one of Norway's best attorneys." "What doesn't make him an asshole?" "He sparked my interest in politics." "The Cold War?" "He scared you with nuclear weapons." "You locked yourself in the sauna." "He sent Georg to specialists all over Norway." "Georg struggled with math, but dad insisted that he was retarded." "What are you doing here?" "Have a seat, Jenny." "What is going on?" "He's going to bring Jenny home." "Is that what she wants?" "It's the way things should be." "I don't like it, but you're of age, so you can decide for yourself." "But...your mother sends her best." "You are always welcome back home." "That's what mom says?" "I say it too." "Please come home, Jenny." "You thought I was brain damaged." "Has your mother told you that?" "No, but you sent me to experts to find a nonexistent problem." "You did have migraines." "Did I?" "It's never too late for a miserable childhood, Georg." "Take good care of her." "Dear Joakim, you're going to like Aunt Jenny." "She's a good girl." "She's going to live here with us." "That will be super!" "Dad behaves around her, and I dare confront him now." "I'm not so afraid of him anymore." "The bad news is that I can't talk to your uncle." "If you ever have a brother, I hope you agree about your upbringing." "I was worried I would end up like dad." "But Terje is the one." "He pushes everyone away." "See you on Wednesday!" "What do you think, Joakim?" "Could that be your mother?" "Subtitles:" "Nick Norris"