August 27, 2013

• Oslo

  I saw a movie with Steven today called Oslo, August 31. It takes place in Norway, but the infrastructure of the city and it’s streets remind me of Amsterdam and those melancholy walks I used to take through the city.

  The movie captures so precisely what and how I feel about everyone and everything when I want to commit suicide. It’s interesting because there is actually not a lot of dialogue, but you can feel all of Anders’s internal struggles. I actually feel like it could almost be a movie about me if I were a Norwegian guy recovering from heroin addiction. But even without the drugs, there is that pervasive emptiness threatening to swallow you alive. The only way you can escape from it is to take your own life. It’s a sad movie, but I love it because it makes me feel that I am not alone in how I perceive the world. There are others who can understand me out there.

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