“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Jens Lien’s 2006 film The Bothersome Man begins with a suicide. Actually it begins with a couple on a train platform kissing each other like two zombies mindlessly trying to swallow each other. Their eyes are open, their faces are expressionless and they just mush their faces together with joyless determination. Then we cut to a man watching them. He too is expressionless and, with equally lifeless affect, he throws himself in front of a moving train. This is how Lien’s comedy begins.
