Overall I thought the film was a brilliant poke in the eye or parable about the kind of Orwellian world we are finding ourselves in. Quite a funny coincidence that I had no sooner just viewed the Polish film "Whack-oh" and commented that that film was for me a harking back to times when complaining about the nuisances of life was not only acceptable in polite company but even at times funny for myself and others than I decided to watch "the Bothersome Man." The film by the end seems to make the very same statement: we are no longer free to express our dissatisfaction. The coincidence was just as uncanny as the Bothersome Man is.

There is a lot more to this film being said but for me even better is the way it is said. The movie starts out a bit enigmatically with the main character being taken alone on a somewhat rundown bus out into the middle of what I assume is a kind of Norwegian arctic desert of some sort, a kind of brown grey vegetation-less wasteland to meet with a rather odd sort of employment agent. The agent drives him elsewhere and then the movie pulls away from the weirdness that seems about to set in at the beginning, and we see the main character in his new and mostly regular life as an accountant in some presumably large firm in what seems to be a large Scandanavian city. Despite the banal quality of this guys' new life, the filmakers manage to drop various characters and images that flit around the edges, vaguely odd incidents all of which brilliantly and correctly allude to how weird things will soon become.

The second half of the movie is more like a Bunuel or surrealist film or a Borges short story which then serve to put the movie into symbolic/allegorical overdrive. I really got a kick out of the juxtaposition of these two parts into one film. There's much to think about and ponder in this movie and I will be watching it again in the near future for sure to see what I notice. I will make a note to check the director's other films, he seems to be onto some very interesting ideas.