You are black, I am not black

Ernest 2022-04-09 08:01:05

Thirty-year-old Shinau still lives in a cramped apartment with her mother, lives on unemployment benefits, and spends her days in bars besides watching pornographic web pages. In Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, the wind and snow are all year round, and it is rare for the clouds to open and the sun rises a few times, but the people living here are optimistic and open-minded, and the bars are full of thrill-seeking people every day.

My mother's Spanish flamenco teacher became a distinguished guest in the family, a Spanish girl who spoke blunt English, and Sinau, an adult man, was always embarrassed in a small apartment. The mother visited relatives and friends for Christmas, and left Xinao to take care of the home. After a night of carnival, the Spanish girl unfortunately got pregnant, and she found out that this female Buddha turned out to be her mother's gay partner! Shinau suddenly fell into an abyss of distress.

The bachelor Xinao felt that he had no way to figure out the relationship between the three. The son was the lover of the "wife", and the husband was the mother of the lover. How should the children born by the "wife" handle themselves? Xinao was extremely distressed. He had a dirty relationship with the police who copied the "meter", and was even arrested in the police station. When the newborn was baptized, Shinau climbed up a snowy mountain by himself, fell into the snow and broke himself. When the snow completely buried it, I thought it was a tragedy, but suddenly a rain came. However, Xinao woke up again. Later, he raised the weak son together with his mother and lover. It was fun. The most irritating thing was that he actually became a policeman reading a meter, which turned out to be a comedy.

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormkur, this is his self-written and directed debut, the film is dark humor, another kind

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101 Reykjavík quotes

  • Hófí: A real lesbian? Tell me, what it's like? I've always been curious about that you know, to know what it's like!

    Lola: There's only one way to find out my sweetheart

    Hlynur: Can I come too?

    Lola: No. I don't take groups

  • Hlynur: The boozer-loser-blues piss-up pick-up place. Old meat served on every table. Recycled jawbones kissing, pickled bollocks in pussy juice. Everybody's had everybody. It's like the waiting room at the VD clinic. Everybody locked up in the same DNA chain. Abortions floating between the tables. This place is haunted by unborn children. It's like the family reunion of a non-existent family.