O'Horten

Release Year: 2007

Director: Bent Hamer

Review: Odd Horten is a 67 year old train engineer two days away from retirement.  He is very proud of his career, and it's very much his identity.  Faced with the evaporation of that identity with his career coming to an end, Odd is forced to go out and live his life.  'O'Hoten' is just this.  A man living his life.  He meets colorful people and some interesting things happen to him, but there isn't really much of a story here, its just a series of events. A man discovering himself again, perhaps for the first time, near the end of his life.  The problem is, there just isn't enough here to really make an impact.  Its often boring, and the changes in Odd seem to be matters of circumstance rather than anything that is really profound.  It was a bit too disconnected to really deliver any sort of message.  It left me shrugging and forgetting about as the credits rolled.  There wasn't much to dislike, but there wasn't anything to really take away either.
Rating: 2.5/5