Noi | Tómas Lemarquis, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson | Exploring Remote Behavior in One of the Remotest...

Noi | Tómas Lemarquis, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson | Ironic

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Noi

	Noi Tómas Lemarquis, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson Palm Pictures / Umvd, 2004 average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Is he the village idiot or a genius in disguise? Seventeen-year-old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Iris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control and end in complete failure. Only a natural disaster will shatter Nói?s universe and offer him a better world.

Exploring Remote Behavior in One of the Remotest Parts of the World

Noi is a seventeen year old teenager who lives with his grandmother. He is rebellious on a personal level regarding school and his personal habits, he smokes and drinks. He is not exactly disrespectful but simply is an individual who follows his own inclinations which has a tendency to get him into trouble. The fjord in Iceland where he lives is limited ... His father is an alcoholic and there is no background given regarding his mother. The film contrasts the stark cold climate in which he lives with the emotional disconnection he feels on the whole about life. Noi feels constrained, he wants something else but does not see a way out. The film explores his personal behavior and how it affects those around him ... It is a deep and haunting film which has an unexpected shake-up type ending. However the ending is open-ended. It leaves the viewer hanging, to ponder how Noi may use the experience to grow into maturity and adulthood or it may be the curve which drives him into the depths of despair. Whichever path he chooses, the event which happened will seriously affect him for the remainder of his life ...

Before this disastrous event, he challenges authority and gets involved with petty crime. He meets an attractive girl named Iris, who is visiting her father from the south of Iceland. It seems she needs to get away from city life according to her father. She jokes about wanting to leave Iceland and explore the world. Noi takes her litterally, walking together one night, he breaks the glass door to the local museum where they nearly get caught by the guards. They find an interactive map which lets them see what different parts of the world are like ... After this date, he buys new clothes, steals a car, and goes to meet Iris, challenging her to make a break with him. She sees the absurdity of this action and can't believe he took her seriously ... His brother bails him out of jail ... Prior to this, he was expelled from school for playing hookey too often. Just when it seems Noi has reached the end of his rope, a turning point, disaster strikes, his world is shaken up and nearly destroyed. This is a haunting and existential film which explores the depths of one lonely teenager's life ... and makes him face the realities of life. Erika Borsos [pepper flower]

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Ironic

I really enjoyed this film. The irony of him daydreaming about leaving one island for another isolated island really cracked me up. You really connect with the people in the film and it sticks with a theme I'm noticing in a handful of icelandic films I've watched recently of having an unexpected ending... Seagull's Laughter and the Juniper Tree are similar in that way.

Icelandic Hit!!

I saw this movie before visting iceland and it was great. when i came home from iceland i got on amazon and got this movie. although iceland isnt as nearly dark and dreary this movie really touches on growing up different, broken dreams, fate and it ends with a twist. definately worth checking out. best icelandic movie i have seen yet!

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Very Interesting Movie

Noi is definitely one of the most original movies I've seen, even if it's not completely to my taste. It's about the eponymous title character, a troubled youth looking for a way to make sense of his life. Noi lives with his grandmother and alcoholic father. He rarely goes to school, and consistently does poorly on his assignments. Nothing seems to go right for our anti-hero, as he has a bad relationship with his father, and is eventually expelled from school. His only window of hope is the new girl at the gas station, Iris, who he clearly takes an affection to. Noi's attempts to find a way out of his boring life become so desparate that he may only destroy his life in the process. In the end, he faces an uncertain future after a tragic event, which I will not reveal here. Suffice it to say that the ending offers hope, but hardly makes everything right.

"Noi" is a real treat for fans of European cinemas. It has great acting (though I didn't believe for a minute that Tómas Lemarquis was 17, as Noi is supposed to be) and a non-cliched script. Plus, it gives a "slice of life" picture of Iceland, a place that most Americans know very little about. In addition, "Noi" is an interesting take on the coming of age genre, and handles alcoholism and domestic violence in a surprisingly realistic manner. Furthermore, "Noi" reminds me of "Five Easy Pieces" in that it features a title character trying to make sense out of an apparently senseless life. The only caveat is that there are no real significant events, unless you want to count what happens at the end, and so someone expecting a drama in the vein of "Lives of Others" will be disappointed. It's really a character study. So in sum, "Noi" is recommended for those who are looking for something different.

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Interesting, but too much in love with its own quirkiness

This film from Iceland is about a 17-year old Albino called Noi (played by an actor who doesn't look either like an albino or a 17 year old) living on an oppresively dull small town in an isolated fjord. Noi, meanwhile, has problems in school, has problems with his parents, hangs out in a bookstore (the town's only, presumably) owned by a cranky old man and is in love with the beautiful waitress of the bar in the gas station. The movie itself is sort of interesting, has droll humor to spare, but at the end, seems to be too much in love with its own quirkiness. And, what should we make of the fact that (SPOILER ALERT: DON'T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T YET SEEN THE MOVIE AND PLAN TO WATCH IT) most of the people Noi cares for die at the end as a result of an avalanche.

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