"Asger has defecated in the closet again." "What do we do?" "The reform provides certain challenges, but the school must have room for everybody." "We've received 28 new pupils with severe learning difficulties." "But we haven't received extra funding." "The kids are falling through the cracks." "Is that included in the report?" "The mayor has looked in the report." "And they've found extra funds for us." "Hi, aren't you new here?" "Uffe." "I'm Hjørdis' boyfriend." "I'm Inge." "You're helping Helle?" "Yup, but Jeppe is moving out today, so you could send the strong man over?" "No, I don't think so." "David asked me to move in with him." "Are you OK about all this?" "Yes." "Now I can do whatever I want." "Death, I met him when I was a boy, but only as a silence in somebody I cared for." "But only as a silence in somebody I cared for." "What is Morten Nielsen trying to say?" "Sasja?" "No idea." "Is it a positive or negative image of death he's painting?" "It's a fucking boring image." "Please read the rest of the poem." "Please do it yourself." "That's not how things are done." "I ask you to do something, and you do it." "And then you feel like a really important teacher?" "No, I feel like a teacher doing her job." "It's OK." "Take a break today." "Well, I asked you." "Raise your hand." "I think you're capable of it." "Right." "I'm not gonna stand for that." "Out." "You don't want me here anyway." "Maria, will you continue?" "Never as something around me." "A cold, a shadow." "That nobody can name or shy away from." "Every..." "Listen, continue reading separately." "I'll be back in a minute." "Have you seen Sasja?" "She went down to the basement." "What?" "You wanna kick me out from down here as well?" "What are you all doing down here?" "This is where all the inclusion freaks hang out." "I told you, nobody wants us here." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Let's gather around." "Inge's not here." "Well, she'll be here soon." "We've got a lot on the agenda today." "But let's begin with the funding." "I've got some ideas." "And they involve paper mâché." "Yes." "The Mayor's decided to grant us an extra 75,000 kroner." "That's a lot of paper mâché." "But it's not very much of anything else." "We need teachers." "The money won't buy us that." "How are we supposed to integrate 28 kids for 75,000?" "They've got their individual diagnosis, and they don't wanna be here." "Exactly, Rita." "That's why I've spent the money on a motivational consultant." "A motivational consultant?" "A motivational consultant, yes." "It's working already." "It's not for us." "It's for the kids." "Primarily for the inclusion kids." "He'll be in your classes for a couple of days speaking to the pupils, so be nice to him." "Put on the yes hat." "The yes hat?" "You're throwing the money away." "It's my prerogative, and that's how it'll be." "I guess that'll be all for today." "We did have more items on the agenda but..." "Have a nice week." "Helle?" "Helle." "Helle!" "Yes?" "A consultant?" "Do you have a better idea?" "I'd like to have funding to hire more staff, but we haven't." "And you promised me to back me up." "The yes hat." "Exactly." "OK." "I'm putting it on." "Thanks." "Helle?" "Helle?" "What is it, Sebastian?" "I'm on my way." "With my hat." "What is it?" "They got a locksmith to open Inge's apartment and.." "Inge's dead." "Inge." "Inge." "Inge's dead." "Heart attack." " Oh, my God." " Here, Sebastian, dear." "Come on, it's gonna be alright." "Oh, dear God." "We'd better gather everybody." "Yes, it's a sad day today, but talk to each other if you need to." "And if you're sad, my door is always open." "All honor to Inge's memory." "You can now return to your classrooms." "You're sure you can take over until we find a new teacher?" " Yes, of course." " I'll come down to see them tomorrow." "It's my responsibility that they get help if they need it." "And if you need to talk as well, just let me know." "Yes." "Right." "Heading home already?" "The classroom is that way, and I want you there." "I want bigger boobs, but we don't always get what we want." "I'd wish you'd invest some of that wit in your school work." "Bloody hell, did the teacher just call me crazy smart?" "Did the teacher read me like an open book?" "Now I'm totally gonna give her a chance." "I can't do anything." "And I don't wanna do anything." "So sod off." "Why would you say that?" "I've heard the same thing at eight different schools." "What if things could be different?" "What if I promised you that your shitty little life actually has a purpose?" "I love being pissed off." "It feels so fucking good." "It's actually better than shagging." "Have you had sex?" "What do you care?" "That's a yes." "Then you know that sometimes you have to fake it." "And you know it's much better when it ain't necessary." "You're faking it." "You're mad about something that hasn't happened yet." "Here's a suggestion." "I get to show you that it can get better." "If I'm right then bonus, you'll feel better." "If I'm not then also bonus, then you'll have something real to be mad about." "You're weird." "Tomorrow, a motivational consultant will be here." "He's supposed to be really good, so how about giving it a chance?" "Hi, Hjørdis." "I can't stand it that Inge was just lying there." "No." "I know." "But we can't really do anything about, can we?" "She was lying there for days." "Why didn't anybody notice?" "Who should've noticed?" "She didn't have a husband and no kids." "No smart parrot." "No." "I just can't stand it that she was all alone." "Try not to think about it." "But who's gonna arrange her funeral when there's no next of kin?" "I guess the authorities will." "If there's no will, she'll get an anonymous burial." "Inge wasn't anonymous!" "We knew her!" " Us, her colleagues." " Did we really?" " Yes." "I'll make sure that Inge receives the best funeral she's ever had." "Or... will have." "Inge isn't gonna think she was alone." "That's nice of you, Hjørdis." "Thanks." "I'll see you tomorrow." "Yes." "Yup, see you." "Now we zip it." "That's it." "Listen up." "Uffe's gonna be your substitute teacher until we find a new teacher." "So say hi." "Hi, Uffe!" "Hi, kids!" "Hi." "But now that I'm here I'd like to hear a bit about how you're all feeling." "It's nice to talk about how you feel when somebody has died." "Did you like Inge?" "Yes!" "Inge was really nice." "We could talk about what you think happens when somebody dies." "I think Inge fell asleep and just kept on sleeping." "That's one way of putting it." "I think she flew up to Heaven." "My grandfather died." "It made me really sad." "Are you still sad now?" "It's OK to be sad." "It's also OK to cry." "I cried a little yesterday." "My hamster has also died." "Were you sad when you're hamster died?" "Yes, but then I got another one." "Do we also get another teacher?" "Yes, you do." "Who is it?" "That we don't know yet." "Is it a man or a woman?" "We don't know yet." "What was the name of your hamster?" "I have a dog named Oscar." "That's all very good, but we need to speak a little more about your feelings." "How do you feel now that Inge's dead?" "Could you tell me about Inge?" "Do you have any stories?" "Well, that went well, didn't it?" "What do you mean?" "They seemed very clarified about..." "Clarified?" "No, no, they're in denial." "They..." "In denial?" "Yes." "The whole class is feeling fine." "Something's totally wrong." "Perhaps we should... draw." "Death." "Yes, that's a good idea." "Get the feelings down on paper." "Yes." "And are you OK, Uffe?" "Yes, yes." "Yes, yes..." "Yes." "Come on in and sit down." "Sasja?" "What?" "We've got a deal?" "You're gonna behave?" "Right, sit down, find your seats." "Good morning." "Hi." "Hi." "I'm gonna introduce Tobias Byle." "He's a motivational consultant, and..." "I'll take it from here." "That way I'll have more time with the kids so we can get you motivated." "How about that?" "Yes?" "That's what we're gonna try to do the next couple of days, and we begin with this." "This is a visionboard and please hand them out." "Here you are." "It's just cardboard, isn't it?" "Well, what's your name?" "Sasja." "Sasja, you know what, try and think outside the box." "It looks like cardboard but if you put your visions on it, it is a visionboard." "Sasja here is an example of how you limit yourself when you're not innovatory." "What does innovatory mean?" "Why don't you just listen for now, and then you'll figure it out, alright?" "It means thinking differently than usual." "I'm using a method here." "Now, you cut out words or images that visualize your alternative identities in ten years." "What do you wanna do?" "Where do you wanna be?" "When it's visualized, it becomes concrete, and then you have a goal to work towards." "Here you go." "You're welcome to begin." "You are to cut out images that show what you wanna be doing in ten years." "I'm not stupid." "Why don't you go ahead?" "I don't know what I want in ten years." "Alright, people, people?" "Let's look at a case." "Sasja can help us visualize what happens when you haven't got a visionboard." "Sasja, please tell the rest of the class why you weren't able to begin?" ""I have no idea what I wanna do ten years from now." That's what she said." "It's hard to make a visionboard if you haven't got a vision." "And it's even harder to amount to anything because how can you when you don't know what you want to do?" "Do you see how it works?" "Right, just cut out anything for a start." "Something about being prime minister." "Yes." "You're thinking that somebody like Sasja can never become prime minister." "But one thing's for certain." "There's no way to achieve it if you can't visualize it." "Please continue, everybody." "Helle?" "I'm busy, Rita." "Tobias is a demotivational consultant." "The hat went off quickly." "Listen for a second, I'm trying, but right now he's humiliating one of my pupils." "Hey, Sasja, wait up." "No, Rita." "Yes." "Sasja." "In the best possible friendly working spirit between us, can we get rid of him?" "We've got him for two months." "We can tell him to stay away, but we can't fire him unless he violates the contract." "There goes the extra funding." "Sorry." "Steffen?" "Steffen." "Hi." "Hi." "I'm arranging Inge's funeral." "I want the people who knew her to say a few words." "Right, that's a good idea, Hjørdis." "Yes." "So did you?" "Did I what?" "Know her?" "No." "Well, Hjørdis, I have to go." "See you." "Er, Niels?" "Yes." "Can I have a minute?" "Sure." "Can you tell me something new about Inge?" "That depends on what you know." "She was a teacher for many years, she smoked cheroots and was fond of knitting." "Yeah." "I guess that covers it." "No, she didn't share her private life." "And she preferred to teach alone, so..." "But it's nice of you, Johanne." "Hjørdis." "Albert!" "Christian!" "Cut it out!" "Do our lives mean anything?" "Nope." "Anything else?" "I've talked to everybody at the school, and nobody really knew Inge." "Well, one said she appreciated that Inge arranged morning singing." "Well, that was a really nice thing." "It's me." "Whoops..." "I just don't get how you can go through life with nobody remembering you." "That you're just there." "Then you might as well be a plant or a chair or a..." "Hjørdis, damn it, you're not a chair, OK?" "Imagine being so alone." "Yes." "It is a little sad." "You'll be there for the funeral, right?" "Yes, yes." "Good." "Hi, you called Jeppe." "I'm not here right now, but please leave a message." "It's Mom." "Er, I just wanted to..." "Well, there wasn't anything, really." "I just didn't think I'd seen you for a while." "But you're probably busy settling in and having anal sex, so..." "That was your mom, bye." "Somebody's sitting there in a while." "OK." "I'm expecting friends, but it's cool that you..." "Wanna do something?" "While we wait?" "Yeah." "Yeah, we can talk if you wanna." "No." "Erm, it's just that I'm married." "That's not a problem." "Ready to go?" "Erm, no, I don't think so." "Come on, don't be a drag." "I'd appreciate it if you left now." "Oh!" "It's OK, don't worry about it." "That's sick." "What's up?" "Bitch." "Seriously?" "Did you actually call me that?" "That's how you talk when you have a different ethnic background." "You can give me this as an apology." "Had a good night out?" "You wanna smoke my cigarettes, but not talk?" "Alright." "Oh, sorry." "I didn't know that your smokes came with polite conversation." "I'm sorry." "Do you want it back then?" "Maybe I'm a good listener." "I think you're good at stealing cellphones." "Listening?" "Nah..." "I've hurt your feelings." "That's what you get for shouting "bitch" at the bitch." "You're pretty talkative for somebody who doesn't wanna talk." "OK..." "OK." "So what about that smoke?" "Just a second." "See you." "Fucking tourist." "Good morning!" "Good morning!" "Where's Sasja?" "She's probably skiving." "That's how it goes when you haven't got a vision." "Perhaps her vision was to stay away from humiliation." "OK." "Let's look at a case." "Your teacher's saying it was her vision to stay away." "What's wrong with that?" "She's thinking inside the box, right?" "Sasja's used to staying away, and that's why she does it again." "But she could've had a vision of showing all of us that she's the best." "That she wanted to do this." "Right?" "I'd like one of you to present your board." "Erm, who wants to go first?" "How about you?" "You're Laura, right?" "Yes." "Yes, please step forward." "And just begin whenever." "In ten years I have a husband and three kids aged one, three and four." "Yes." "And how is that innovative?" "Try and think outside the box." "You might have kids, but perhaps you've also invented a sustainable material." "Perhaps you and your family is the first Danish family on the moon." "But I'd play handball." "Then build a gymnasium up there." "That would be innovative." "That's Laura's vision, and if that's what she wants then that's the right vision." "Do you mind?" "I'm actually trying to teach them to think" "Outside the box, got that." "But you could also just think inside the box, right?" "Because inside the box there's nice people, friends, and family." "And handball." "And that's quite alright." "OK, Rita, if my way of running this is a problem for you, then I think..." "It is." "If you can't stop interrupting, then you have to wait outside." "Don't you listen to him." "Who wants to be next?" "I was wrong about Tobias." "I heard he was good." "He's an idiot." "Why should I believe you?" "You said the opposite." "I put on a ridiculous yes hat, and I've taken it off again, OK?" "Fuck Tobias, I just want you back in my class!" "I don't wanna be in your class." "I think you're laughable." "You're trying to be inspirational." "It's like being stalked by a fortune cookie." "Yes!" "At least the other teachers are smart enough to not spend time on me." "But you're so desperate to save people because if you meet somebody who can do nothing your entire life project falls apart." "Sasja." "Sasja!" "You know why I know you have talent?" "Oh, fuck..." "Because you're driving me crazy." "And it might sound cool, but it takes intelligence to pick people apart." "It's easy when people are so stupid." "Do you think I usually kick people out of the classroom?" "Huh?" "You can be so fucking annoying." "That's the first time I've ever heard that." "You know what?" "I think you need to feel a success." "And that's how you get mad rich." "Alright." "Thank you." "And now I actually think we..." "Rita." "I thought we had a deal." "We had a deal that I wouldn't interfere." "Fine." "Right, I think we've seen all of your visionboards." "Why don't we have a look at yours?" "I didn't know how to do it." "That's counter productive thinking, right there." "If you think that you can't, then you can't." "One of the points in my thesis is that it's the degree of adaptability in your brain that determines if it's gonna be a success or a failure." "It's all up here." "So you can do anything if you just tell yourself that you can?" "Yes." "At last." "So you always wanted to be a motivational consultant?" "Well, what?" "If you can do everything you visualize, then this is what you wanted?" "Yes." "The job that you hold now?" "Yes, that was the goal I set for myself." "As a child?" "No, of course not as a child..." "What did you want to be then?" "Well, that's not relevant to what we're doing here." "Can't we use it as a case?" "Of course not." "Yes." "OK." "I wanted to be an actor, but now let's..." "Why didn't you become an actor?" "I became this instead." "Weren't you good enough?" "You can't help it if you get rejected all the time." "That was a personal case, but there's all sorts of reasons..." "Why didn't you just visualize them away?" "Or were you just bad at it?" "Were you?" "Maybe you were too bad at visualizing?" "Have you tried visualizing that?" "Well... what..." "What is it that you wanna hear?" "That you can't just become everything in life?" "Of course you can't." "Not least you." "I'm just trying to make your future shitty life a little better but if you really wanna hear the truth, be my guest." "You're a loser and you'll never amount to shit." "That's all for today." "No, that's all for you at this school." "Let's agree that you go to Helle and quit." "I really hope you've all been motivated to work hard." "If you don't you'll end up as a motivational consultant." "I think I'll put that on my visionboard at home." "Right, that's all for today." "I'll see you all tomorrow." "Nice job." "Sasja?" "He's right." "I'm a loser." "Sasja?" "Hi." "Hi." "You wanted to be updated on..." "The mourning process, that's right." "You brought the drawings, I see." "Exciting." "Have a seat." "Yes." "Let me show you." "They all drew Inge." "Yes." "Or Heaven." "Or grandparents or some pets who died." "Noah drew his dead fish." "I think we've covered it well now." "Yes." "Look at this, this is also..." "Right?" "No, there's no doubt." "They need to speak to a professional." "Oh, but why?" "Because none of them have a problem." "Uffe, they're in denial." "You have to pick flowers for the funeral." "Right, of course." "Oh, my God." "Just a second, Uffe." "Excuse me." "Yeah, sure." "We need to get hold of the child psychologist." "Actually, Helle, there's a couple of drawings that you missed." "Have a look." "And then there's this..." "And have a look at this one." "Oh, my." "Yes, and I don't know..." "That must be Inge." "Look, that must be Inge lying in the coffin." "Yes, I'll be damned if that isn't Inge." "It's her." "And look, kids crying." "They're just crying and crying." "Oh, my." "How nice it must be." "To just be able to cry, not having to be the strong one." "Yeah..." "Sorry." "That's OK." "It's quite alright." "It's just that..." "I've always wanted to be a leader." "And now that I am one it's so difficult." "Hi." "Good to see you." "No other teachers have shown up?" "I couldn't even get the ones who knew Inge to show up." "You tried, right, Hjørdis?" "That's what counts." "Look, there's Helle." "Hi." "It'll be a fine ceremony." "Do you wanna wait for more attendees?" "No." "Then let's begin." "Excuse me?" "Is this Inge Kaltos' funeral?" "Yes." "Eskild Jørgensen." "Hjørdis." "We were Inge's colleagues." "Are you family?" "I'm one of Inge's old pupils." "My class was so fond of her so I spread the word." "Hi." "Hjørdis." "That's a really fine initiative, Hjørdis." "Inge got me through my school years." "Hi." "Philip." "Hjørdis." "Well, that was a beautiful funeral, wasn't it?" "You were right, Rita." "It was a waste of money." "Tobias has quit, so now I actually have an extra funding of 75,000 kroner that I have no idea what to do with." "Any ideas?" "I thought you were the leader." "Yes, but sometimes even I need a little help." "I have an idea." "But you have to really listen." "And give it a chance." " The yes hat?" " Exactly." "Here you go." "Is this where they are?" "Yes, when the teachers kick them out of the classroom which happens every day." "Sasja, what did that motivational consultant call you again?" "A loser." "A loser." "And he's right." "No." "You're losers." "You've been transferred from one place to the next." "From school to school." "From one consultant to the next." "Now they've decided that you have to be at this school." "But being losers doesn't mean that you're stupid." "You've heard about your kind in the news, and you know that you're not welcome." "The other pupils think you're weird, and you know what?" "That's not alright." "Because this is also our school." "So now we're gonna make a place that's also yours." "This is it." "Right, Helle?" "Yes." "It won't be a place where you can just go and do nothing and not do your homework." "It's gonna be a place where you can go and blow off some steam." "And Asger, you can catch a break here when things get a little too much." "And Sasja, when you're down here you can be reminded that there actually is somebody who can be bothered to invest in you." "And we have the money to shine this place up, right, Helle?" "Yes, Rita." "We do." "Then let's do it." "Subtitles:" "BTI Studios"