Talk

1997
7| 0h14m| en
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Birger is old and retired from work, but he still goes back to work since he has nothing else to do. Back home he gets a rare visitor: a girl from Hare Krishna recruiting new members.

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Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
invertedforest-70474 In this short film, the main character is a middle-aged man. When I watch this man, I got a little frustrated. Why? At first, I thought he wants someone who needs him, but his way is too far from that easy simple wish. I think that he wants to control someone. Every time and everywhere, I encountered that kind of people who are always middle-aged men, sometimes mid-aged women and little children. Those people try to bully someone who was weaker than them. Although there is exception, I think people should be equal to each other basically. So this main character is an offensive person. However, turning to myself, am I sometimes like those people? When I watch this, I was frightened that I possibly hurt others in the future when I get older than now.
sepwaltz This movie is about an old man whose age is about sixty. He is neglected by everyone but he wants to talk with people so he always goes to his previous ex-workplace. He tries to talk with a girl who sits on the next seat to him on the bus. She ignores him so I feel sympathy for him. However, he is considered unpleasant by other people so not only this girl but workers ignore him. He is loneliness at home. It is unclear if he is married but now he is lonely. At first I felt sorry for the man but at once I noticed he is a little strange. At the beginning, the atmosphere of this movie gets disquieting. It seems to show his usual life. However his dangerous personality comes to light. This is a mysterious movie.
Enchorde ** HERE BE SPOILERS **Birger (Ljungren) is either retired or has been let off from his work. Still in search for human contact, everyday he goes back to work. He tries to talk to people on the bus, he tries to talk to people at the factory and he tries to eat lunch at 9.30, just tom make some sort of contact. At home he desperately seeks contact with people by calling people at ransom and claiming to have misdialed, and then tries to talk to them. His luck is made when a girl (Frode) from Hare Krishna is out informing about a book and her religion. He invites her but do not really want to talk about religion. When she wants to leave, things get out of hand.An extremely depressing short. Might have some insights how life may turn out (in a worst case scenario) when retirement comes and this is what saves it from being a disaster. Why anyone would like to watch this on the other hand is beyond my comprehension.2/10
bob the moo Birger works at Volvo and tries to talk to people as he gets the bus to work. However he doesn't work at Volvo anymore as he has retired but has nothing to do but hang around. His loneliness is very hard for him and he is grateful when a knock on the door brings a girl preaching about Hare Krishna to his home. He invites her in but his desire for even a conversation is intimidating to her.The title of this film in English is 'Talk' and it sums up the content pretty well even if the film goes further than it should have done. In essence the film is quite moving and very real as we see Birger struggling to find anyone who will spend time with him. At my job we have a similar guy who retired years ago but continues to hang around even though many just feel sorry for him – this film has a similar guy in the lead. He tries to talk on the bus and, even in the early scene before we know much about him, he seems lonely and desperate. The film extends this idea well but, in the last few minutes it goes somewhere that I didn't expect and didn't fit with the tangible reality that I felt it had built up till that point.This is a complaint but it is not one that takes away what it had done in the 10 minutes or so up till this point. The character of Birger is well written but succeeds because of very good delivery from Ljunggren. His natural and pained performance is spot on and he is the cornerstone of the film. Frode is annoying and the film doesn't treat her very well but it's easy not to really notice her part in the end of the film as Ljunggren is pretty dominant.Overall this is a great little film that blows it a bit at the end by losing touch with the reality that it had set up so well – but this is not enough to make this a bad short film, just a lesser one than it should have been. But the material, the direction and Birger makes it well worth seeing.