The Worst — Person In The World

“The Worst Person in the World” isn’t about a villain—it’s about every person who’s ever been afraid of choosing the wrong life. Essential viewing for the anxious and the young at heart.

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At first glance, the title The Worst Person in the World feels like a provocation. Surely, we think, this film isn’t about a murderer or a tyrant. And it isn’t. It’s about Julie, a young woman in Oslo drifting through her late twenties, and the worst thing she’s guilty of is being uncertain. “The Worst Person in the World” isn’t about

Where the film breaks convention is in its refusal to judge. Julie breaks Aksel’s heart, leaves him as his life begins to unravel (including a devastating cancer diagnosis), and rushes into a new relationship that also feels, eventually, like a cage. She is not cruel. She is lost. And Trier shoots her lostness with the gravity of a tragedy and the lightness of a screwball comedy. One magical-realist sequence—where the entire world freezes so Julie can run through Oslo’s streets to be with Eivind—is pure cinematic wish-fulfillment. It captures the fantasy of escaping the consequences of your choices. You can adapt it for a review, analysis,