We are in the 50s. In a remote village in Norway come from neighboring Sweden, a group of researchers appointed by the government of their country to carry out a sociological survey. Purpose of the study is the behavior of people in the space of your kitchen, their movements, their habits, their customs. Backed by a similar experience over Sweden, must now compare it with the behavior of this Norwegian town inhabited only by men single.Il Norwegian director Bent Hamer, she says, is actually from a study done in Sweden by Swedish scholars Institute Search Domestica. The aim was to optimize the movements of housewives in the kitchen, whose movements were reported in a diagram we see reproduced in the film, in order to ensure that the Swedish home "instead of walking the equivalent of a trip from Sweden to the Congo could only walk the distance of a journey to the north of Italy." Folke (Tomas Norstrom) is one of the technicians hired to conduct the surveys. It is installed in the home of Isak. (Joachim Calmeyer, one of the greatest players in Norwegian), perched on a high chair as arbiter of tennis, from which all observe and record the movements of his landlord. With a slow rate, and the almost total absence of dialogue, Hamer tells us about the developments of relations between the two men, initially marked by mistrust and then land, deepening mutual understanding, friendship and a warm solidarietà.È a story of loneliness, the one told by the Norwegian director, cold as the snow around the shack of Isak. But the film, which is to praise the careful reconstruction of environments, it is also a veiled criticism of the alleged infallibility of "positivism" that animated, and soul, the sociological investigations of this type. System, however, located in the 'humanity' of the operator to their own fallibility. The roles are likely to be reversed, and this is what happens in the film when the viewer begins to feel observed, and when the x-axis on the chart and give the coordinates of the field to the feelings and emotions.
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