‘The Worst Person in the World’ and the millennial crisis — review and analysis
"The Worst Person in the World" explores the millennial urge to reinvent yourself every time things get hard through an aimless 30-year-old navigating her life in Oslo
How do you balance living for yourself while also being a good person? Isn’t that the mad irony of our existence? We’re given a set amount of time on this earth and we’re meant to immediately know what we want to do with that time. As if that wasn’t enough, we’re also expected to spend some of that limited time leaving something behind, even if that’s just in the people that knew us. The almost unspoken impossible nature of that is what makes the title "The Worst Person in the World” is so apt for Joachim Trier’s fifth film and third in his Oslo Trilogy.
As we go through our lives, we weave and shape them in ways that change the design of everything entirely. We make decisions, some for the better and some for the worse, and we have no choice but to live with them. As millennials, we are particularly hard on ourselves — it feels like we can never make the right decision, and when we go for a decision that makes us feel good, the world around us tells us we’re being selfish. But what i…