The Worst Person in the World begins with a prologue for Julie (a tremendous Renate Reinsve), a woman in her late 20s who is having difficulty choosing what path her life should go ____. She begins as a medical student, but then decides she should try ____ psychology, then quickly moves ____ to photography. The narration states that Julie is disappointed in herself, that this used to all be so easy. Her boyfriend Aksel (Anders Danielsen Lie) tells her “you seem to be waiting for something, I don’t know what.” Julie isn’t indecisive ____, she just knows that the choices she makes in this period will define the rest of her life, that her choices in love/work/life will trickle ____ from here ____ out. At this point, her ancestors had lived seemingly full lives, while Julie is still struggling to figure ____ her own. This fear of the future, this worry about making the wrong choice, how the choices we made define us, and how beautifully director/co-writer Joachim Trier ____ all these ideas together is what makes The Worst Person in the World not just one of the best films of 2021, but possibly one of the best coming-of-____ films ever made. Reinsve, who won Best Actress at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, is an absolute joy to watch on this adventure ____ her own life. Every new chapter in her life and in this film offers Reinsve a new way to explore Julie, whether it’s in ____ the differences between two potential loves, or the ____ of discovering something new about herself. This is a film that asks Reinsve to present the most vulnerable, meaningful, heartbreaking, and powerful moments of a person’s life, and no matter what the challenge that ____ from Trier and Vogt’s Oscar-nominated screenplay, Reinsve is ____ for it. Essential to Julie’s story are the two men that she meets in this journey of self-discovery. Lie’s Aksel is a comic book writer who is older than Julie, who has some insight ____ what she’s going through, but often seems like he’s just as confused as her. He already has to ____ with his problematic early comic that still defines his artistic career, yet he seems more able to ____ with the flow than someone like Julie. Also important to Julie’s story is Eivind (Herbert Nordrum), a barista who Julie meets at a party, and the two seem to form an immediate ____. Not only are Trier and Vogt presenting this story with a love triangle, but also a very direct look at how the decisions that a person makes can completely ____ their lives significantly. Both Lie and Nordrum are fantastic here, as Lie presents the safer, easier choice to be made, while Nordrum is the potential new path that Julie really has to go ____, ____ she consider what could’ve been for the rest of her life. Trier tells this story in breathtaking and inventive ways that are ____, yet never ____. At one point, the world around Julie completely stops with the ____ of a light switch, allowing her to explore her deepest desire. In another scene, Julie goes on a hallucinatory discovery of her fears and wants. These filmmaking ____ are never showy, but rather, are simply the best way to present Julie’s ____ at any given time. In a film about finding what one wants in life, Trier breathes new life ____ this film in exciting and powerful ways. Yet even at its simplest, when Trier is showing a party gone wrong or an awkward encounter in a bookstore, Trier and cinematographer Kasper Tuxen (Beginners, Riders of Justice) shoots every scene with beauty and love. The Worst Person in the World is a near-perfect, energetic, and genuinely ____ tale of finding yourself in your thirties, how the definition of success has changed over the years, making decisions that inform the rest of your life, and how there are certain moments that once we lose the person those moments are shared with are simply gone forever. By focusing on these chapters that ____ the direction of Julie’s life, we see how the big moments and the ____ moments can be equally important. Trier has ____ a film that is not just about living life to the fullest while you can, but about how terrifying fully ____ life can be because of the options that will close along the path. The Worst Person in the World, quite simply, is the type of film that could completely impact the way the viewer sees the world, a phenomenal statement on life, love, and growing ____ yourself.

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