There is a tiny scene in Anders Thomas Jensen’s latest irreverent and absurd character study, The Last Viking, that is utterly pure in regards to why I love his films and his storytelling sensibilities. A man tells a story of how he incurred a serious face injury. As the man, with the help of his wife, tries to recount the violent and shocking event with situational colour and the details of the set-up, the person he is telling it to keeps interrupting the flow with a laser-focus on the inconsistencies the trivial details of the story, and not the shocking aspects, or rather the actual point, of the story. It is enough to drive you nuts. That IS the point, and, with a...
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