When after she tucks him in, she says her door is open if he needs her and kinda smiles. It was the way she said it. And she said this after he tried to be more personal with her.
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Saw this for the first time about 8 years ago, but didn't pick up on it. Watched it again a few days ago, and yes I agree. Even at the beginning you could sense some feelings between them--like
an old married couple.
"Gubmint do take a bite, don't she?"
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A lot of movies seem to be coming out of Norway too, lately.
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Applied Science? All science is applied. Eventually.
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I think it could be interpreted either way - either she was agreeing that they should be closer or she was saying that he knows to ask her if he needs anything ie his tablets or a drink.
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Although one cannot know for sure if the maid was hitting on him, that certainly was the impression I took away from the scene. At the very least, if I had the same exchange with this maid such a conversation certainly would have raised the prospect in my mind.
Of course, too, as can so often happen when two people fail to communicate more directly -- or should I say bluntly -- I might have been met with a very indignant rebuke. Ah, but alas, nothing ventured nothing gained, correct?
It could be she was hitting on him or she might had just been concerned.
It's that man again!!
Yes, I thought she was hitting on him, and I would go even further. I think her rebuke of his calling her Agda and her calling him Isak was at play here. To her, calling him by his familiar name and vice versa represented a degree of intimacy even more special than sex. I think she felt something like, "How can I call him Isak, he's never even kissed me?" I feel she was thinking about remedying that situation by leaving the door ajar. Also, the movie did not specify which door she was leaving ajar. Like I don't think the subtitles stated, "I'll leave your door open," so I thought she could mean her own, which would be a far more provocative message.
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