The film "Oslo, August 31st" is about a man's day in a city. The 34-year-old man, Anders Danielsen Lie, had just come out of a drug rehab center and was about to apply for a job. The opening of the film is Oslo in his memory. Those urban scenes that accompanied him are warm in people's descriptions. However, the opening of the film came to an abrupt end when a building named Philip collapsed. like a dream.
Anders got up early to say goodbye to the woman beside him and walked into the river in the jungle. He filled his pockets with rocks and sank deep into the river with a big rock in his arms. After an uneasy silence, he suddenly emerged from the water and fled back to shore in a panic. Then he went for an interview. Before the interview, he visited his old friend Thomas (Hans Olav Brenner). When Thomas was hanging out with him, he inadvertently revealed his expectations and confusion about the future of his life, and he was quite worried about Anders. And this caused ripples in Anders's otherwise calm heart.
The interview was with an avant-garde magazine, and the interview seemed to go smoothly. The editor-in-chief praised his previous articles and sincerely asked him to give constructive comments on the magazine. The exchange process was pleasant, but when asked why no new works have been published in recent years, Anders bluntly spoke out about the problem of drug addiction. After that, Anders took the initiative to end the interview without warning and left the room directly. Anders, seemingly unable to handle the inexplicable conflict between editorial status and addicts, gave up the position voluntarily in near desperation. This is a turning point.
Anders has been in the rehab center for a year, neither on drugs nor drinking alcohol. However, being drug-free and drinking doesn't mean you're sober. Anders' heart has been gradually eroded, and he feels that he has lost his future. Although it seems that he should have a new life after years of drug addiction and detoxification, he feels that he has embarked on a completely different path from his old friends. In life, the life of an old friend Thomas set sail and rumbled away, but his own ship was broken and stranded on the shore. Even the city where he was born and loved had a facelift, treating him with a hostile attitude, a reminder of his lost life and irretrievable love. Anders was full of resentment at himself, and everything made him despair. He kept calling his ex-girlfriend's phone, but he couldn't get through every time. The cheating partner who ran into his ex-girlfriend in a bar also has no sympathy for his previous relationship that was ruined by drug addiction. Hearing the cold words of his rival, he left with a stunned look on his face. He didn't know where to go. The traces of light in front of him were swallowed up by the darkness.
Before he came to the bar alone, he had also rejected the beer temptation offered by his old friend. And the people under the night seemed to awaken him to his old life, as if everything was guiding him to pick up that glass of wine. He himself was not disturbed by his actions, and after the connection of the day, everything went smoothly. The girl Rebecca (Ingrid Olava) meets in the bar doesn't care about his past and makes no secret of her love for him. In the fading dawn, they came to an open-air swimming pool with another couple. The couple said nothing, undressed and jumped into the swimming pool to kiss. Rebecca was also preparing to swim naked in a semi-vacuum. She turned around and motioned for Anders to come play with him. Anders smiled but didn't move. He knew he shouldn't have taken this step, it wasn't the way things were supposed to go.
It's a true, sad story with lots of content and a lot of lingering aftertaste. Of course Anders could take that step towards Rebecca, but no one can be sure what will happen next. Life is also like swimming. Once you drift too far from the shore, it may be difficult to turn back. For Anders, his life has been too far away from his own life in the encroachment of drug addiction and detoxification, and it has been too far away from Oslo. The ocean currents of life have taken him away from his previous trajectory, and it is completely impossible to turn back. All he could do was leave Oslo and throw away the past. At the end of the film, Anders completely loses his confidence in grasping the future. He plays a piano piece rusty and stiff, and the music lingers, but he repeats his obsession skillfully and mechanically. Then, just like the Philip Building, it collapsed after warmth.
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