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I can't do any better than this.

Listen...

I AM sorry.

I'll go down to Copenhagen

and see Christopher over the holidays.

I've got to get away for a bit, and think.

OK.

The film is 90 minutes long

and I didn't think of Mum once.

So this movie made you want to repress

the memory of your mother?

You've got to think of something else

sometimes, don't you?

Definitely. I'm just trying to understand

what Rikard's getting at.

Even though Indians were tortured,

they didn't all get depressed about it.

It was just "back to work" harvesting

in the fields, or out hunting.

- Didn't they live in the jungle?

- Guatemala.

That was more fields.

They didn't have time to feel bad.

To get beaten to a pulp was nothing.

They stuck together. Children died...

natural disasters... war...

But they just kept going...

and I find that very inspiring.

I feel I might start thinking like that...

one day... if all goes well.

- That's very interesting.

- Yes.

I've thought that way, too, sometimes.

- Or something like it.

- In what way?

- What have you thought, Ann-Sofi?

- Well...

It would be great being someone else

for a while... Sometime.

If you could leave yourself...

or just take a holiday, you could say...

from everything you carry with you... see.

So what are you getting at

with those thoughts?

At being someone else...

anyone at all!

Perhaps a Mayan Indian, for example, or...

See things differently...

Just get to be someone else!

I get that, totally.

I don't get it at all.

Sounds like a simple case of repression.

Doesn't everybody think that at some stage?

Escape from reality?

- More so probably when we were kids.

- Sorry... I don't quite get it.

Thinking like someone else?

That doesn't happen.

I see that time is running out,

so we may wind up for today.

So let's give some thought to how

we can develop this idea.

- Is that OK with you, Rikard?

- Yes.

So we'll see each other in 2 weeks.

Goodbye for now.

Turn it over...

- I totally get what you were on about.

- Do you?

Seeing that I...

I've thought like that, too... like you.

Yes... to replace... everything.

Yes.

What brings you to think that way.

I mean... how are things... for you?

I want to be somewhere else.

Somewhere where I... where I don't...

Where I can't relate to anything.

Where I can be who I want...

Like in a hotel room,

I've thought sometimes.

Can't you do that?

Go away for a bit.

Of course I can.

I just can't seem to think straight

when I'm alone.

Can't you take someone with you.

Everyone I know is too opinionated.

I'll come with you.

What's wrong? I've got no opinions

and I don't know you at all.

I wouldn't mind staying in a hotel.

- Isn't it awfully expensive?

- I can pay for it.

- And you're staying ONE night?

- That's right.

Here are your keys.

The lifts are there to the left.

The restaurant is straight ahead.

Breakfast is served between 7 and 10.

Everyone respects me.

Good. Go on.

I'm popular.

When I come to work in the morning,

then...

EVERYBODY says good morning

to me, and the boss...

She winks at me. She says

"Ann-Sofi, nice to see you!".

Everyone asks what sort of a holiday

I had and I say it was great.

We talk about TV shows

and we talk about books.

Things like that. Things people do.

And we're going to the Caribbean.

A bunch of us at work are going

to the Caribbean... on vacation.

We all see each other after work as well...

that's why we're going.

Everything's great.

They all want to be with me.

That's it.

- Good.

- Thanks.

Excellent!

- Good.

- You're very brave.

I'm strong.

I'm as strong as a... Mayan Indian.

I'm strong and I have hair.

I'm not scared of anything.

Because I'm so strong.

And my mum...

She's there, but I don't think about her

the whole time.

Other people's pain hardens me,

and I am really fine.

Mum stays in the background,

but she likes me.

She looks me over when I'm leaving

and says:

"You're so handsome!

"You're so strong!"

It happens to people...

Get so stressed out

by their goddamn "nuclear family".

Making out they're happy, but

really walking around empty inside.

They want to f*** somebody else.

But they're not allowed to.

And that gets them obsessed.

In the end, all they want to do

is have sex with a stranger.

Someone like me.

God, I'm so stupid!

I took everything there was.

Still more!

- Really salty!

- Can I have a taste?

Then I'll even go to Val d'lsre...

in France.

With my mum and dad.

I've got the finest of ski equipment.

When we're on tour with the school

so... everyone's there...

And I get:
"F***in' hell, man...

what a great zip-suit!"

- Everyone thinks it's...

- Hang on... wait!

- Are we going this?

- What?

Do you have to use notes?

That's totally irrelevant!

- They were just memory-joggers...

- I think it's great, Peter.

- It's cheating.

- No, you can say whatever you want.

Keep going, Peter. Ignore him.

It's blue... the zip-suit is blue.

I can... I can't.

- Sorry... I'm so big.

- I know how it is.

Yeah? How old?

- Nearly one.

- Nice! Your first?

He doesn't sleep much at night. You know

how it is when they're starting to walk.

Just loves to run full bore!

Unbelievable. My body's been taken over.

Then before you know it they're

running around like real little people.

Are you paying all the mini bar charges

on this card?

Yes.

I can't do it.

Erika, I can't go.

I can't go either!

- Peter...

- Wait.

They're full here, but we can go

somewhere else.

- Where?

- I don't know. Anywhere.

We also need a credit card.

4 keys.

- Hi.

- Hi.

How... how was Copenhagen?

Fine.

Whereabouts are you?

I'm on a course.

The discussion-group leader

though I should do this course.

Trauma-abatement course.

So I'm on it now.

- OK. How long's it for?

- A week.

- Possibly two... it depends.

- Is it any good?

Yes, it's really great... really great!

The leader... everything...

I honestly think it's really great for me.

Most important is to turn off cell phones

and computers, so there won't be...

anything ringing... so we lose the feeling.

I don't want to hear about any bad

things... No natural disasters, no wars.

Nothing nasty, I'll say.

No TV, no Facebook.

Don't we need some sort of structure?

So some sort of timetable.

I think we should explore the Mayan stuff

a bit further.

If that's what you want, then

you should do it. We can help you.

- Yes.

- OK.

- This must go back here.

- Then this has to go up there.

Wait or you'll hurt your neck.

- OK, try that.

- It's not going to work.

We'll try it between the feet.

It'd be better if you...

- Does that hurt a bit?

- Yes.

- Straight up, then we'll tie

them together. - Can we try it?

- Is this quite safe?

- Yes. I bet it hurts though.

3...2...1...pull!

- Sorry!

- Stop.

What is it? Why did you all stop?

You were yelling...

It must have been hurting.

But you can't just break off like that!

That was the whole point of it.

It's supposed to hurt. That's the point.

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