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A Rational Solution or what I call a proper title A Fucked Up Situation.

Now before I start I have to say this: this movie darkened my soul by giving me shots of misery just like Requiem For A Dream did years ago. Don’t expect to see people die here or toxic problems of any kind. What dies here, is LOVE. This movie is all about the end of a relationship, is all about unanswered questions – about what love is, how can we define it, why love isn’t just boobies, sculptured bodies, tight asses and toothpaste smiles – is all about us – can we be bigger that emotion or can we forgive?

So Fifty-year-old Erland lives in an industrial town, works in the local paper mill, and manages a seminar about marriage problems with his wife. Everything looks fine until his  friend and co-worker Sven-Erik introduces him to his wife Karin. Erland and Karin share some feelings from their first glance and situation soon becomes weird when Erland offers a kinda open minded solution to his wife and Karin’s husband. So they move in the same house (all four of them) and create a temporary commune by obeying to some rules of behavior until this passion will reach an end. Unfortunately, that doesn’t quite work as planned. As civilized as they are trying to be, sadness and anger comes front while some schizophrenic behavior doesn’t seem so out of place at all.

The Swedish way:

Lets be honest here. I don’t think that any one from the rest of the world would ever think a solution of that kind in a situation so complex. These Scandinavians here really share some creativity, while -for sure – if something like that happened among Greeks there would have been some murdering involved.

I don’t know. Some years ago my sweet friend Lise (also from Sweden) shared some childhood story that I couldn’t understand, summarizing at the end that I have a square mind – who knows maybe I do.

The film is superb!

-manoc-

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