1 00:00:05,180 --> 00:00:06,880 it's Christmas, so what? 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:08,720 who is happy and why? 3 00:00:08,860 --> 00:00:12,000 does skiing make you happy? 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:14,640 Christmas is as good as it gets 5 00:00:14,740 --> 00:00:16,460 snow and sleet, and sip and slush 6 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,620 so we look forward till it is over 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,180 everything goes down the hill at breakneck speed 8 00:00:24,380 --> 00:00:28,320 and soon the Christmas pixie is starting to die out, so march 9 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:30,200 it's pure therapy 10 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,140 it's mass hysteria 11 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,660 we are so sad to mention it, but... 12 00:00:36,140 --> 00:00:39,280 now it's Christmas in the treadmill again 13 00:00:40,260 --> 00:00:42,140 it's Christmas, X-M-A-S 14 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:43,940 God, how commercial it is 15 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,100 soon, the air will be filled with fraud and trickery 16 00:00:48,060 --> 00:00:51,900 Christmas is, as you know, always is an inconvenience 17 00:00:52,020 --> 00:00:55,280 because it sets the most extreme demands, 18 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,100 but in a time when no one really knows what they want 19 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,580 it is the last straw we can cling to 20 00:01:03,739 --> 00:01:07,480 has it first gotten through your joyous child-like mind, 21 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,920 you'll be mindlessly joyously sick, 22 00:01:11,460 --> 00:01:14,400 then it's Christmas in the treadmill yet again. 23 00:01:15,460 --> 00:01:18,400 CHRISTMAS IN THE OLD THREADMILL. 24 00:01:23,460 --> 00:01:25,400 Oh, Flemming... 25 00:01:26,260 --> 00:01:30,400 - Thanks for a wonderful night. - Hi Berit, you old, wild one. 26 00:01:31,460 --> 00:01:32,400 You really think so? 27 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:37,140 I feel really tenderloined. It's like I lost something. 28 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:41,640 Tenderloined, yes. You always feel like that after a divorce. 29 00:01:42,140 --> 00:01:44,860 Vulnerable. Skinless. 30 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:49,540 - Full of fresh scratches and open wounds. - Av! 31 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:52,400 Wake up a little. Look, I baked twist bread. 32 00:01:52,780 --> 00:01:54,480 Have you baked twist bread? 33 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:56,340 Oh, what good is that? 34 00:01:57,260 --> 00:02:00,160 Here one awakes and have lost all ones furniture. 35 00:02:00,300 --> 00:02:02,080 And his good health. 36 00:02:02,460 --> 00:02:05,820 And his dignity. And his curtain too. 37 00:02:05,980 --> 00:02:07,940 - Flemming. - The two of us can't throw ourselves into all 38 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,200 that Christmas stuff, until we know the true values. 39 00:02:11,420 --> 00:02:14,120 - The point of it all. - Where do you find that? 40 00:02:14,220 --> 00:02:16,400 - Out in the woods. - Out in the woods? 41 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:17,880 But Berit, we don't have time for that at all. 42 00:02:17,900 --> 00:02:19,320 Flemming, the two of us, we need 43 00:02:19,420 --> 00:02:22,820 to go out and figure out what to do with our lives and our townhouse. 44 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,540 We have to go out and get to know each other yet again. 45 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:27,840 Does it have to be outside? In the middle of the Christmas rush? 46 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,980 Out and feeding the ducks with bare hands. 47 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:33,360 But Berit, how do we get out there? We don't have a car anymore. 48 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:38,280 We float away on the wings of love. 49 00:02:38,780 --> 00:02:41,900 Come, there is nothing that binds us. 50 00:02:45,340 --> 00:02:46,920 The wings of love. 51 00:02:47,140 --> 00:02:48,560 Have you heard the likes. 52 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:50,340 But then there must be harder means in use then. 53 00:02:50,420 --> 00:02:53,920 Because there are limits to what we pixies will put up with. 54 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:56,000 Namely. 55 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:57,900 Yes, hello, is that the TV? 56 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:00,560 Yes, may I ask for the sensation department? 57 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,600 It is about a human tragedy. 58 00:03:03,700 --> 00:03:05,900 Oh no, Berit, can't we just go back home? 59 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,420 All that nature seems so barren when you stand in the middle of it like that. 60 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:12,900 And there is also something sneaky about this forest. 61 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,920 No, if I had known that everything was so green, I would never have... 62 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:18,800 Berit! 63 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:21,700 Oh no, not again. 64 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:22,720 Cuckoo, Cuckoo! 65 00:03:23,660 --> 00:03:26,160 There is a cuck, and another cuck? 66 00:03:26,460 --> 00:03:28,420 No, I can't take it anymore. 67 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:30,000 Do you have to be so fierce? 68 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,180 Yes, because that's how young happiness is; unpredictable. 69 00:03:34,620 --> 00:03:36,600 Look, Flemming, a kale. 70 00:03:36,860 --> 00:03:39,960 - Isn't it beautiful? - Yes, it's excellent. 71 00:03:40,820 --> 00:03:44,300 To get back to that with Christmas and our finances. 72 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,540 Look, another one, how rich nature is. 73 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,600 Well, I'd really like to know what you had in mind. 74 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:54,900 Look, the little squirrels, they know what freedom means. 75 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:56,580 Squirrels? 76 00:03:56,620 --> 00:04:01,080 Yes, those disheveled little devils tumbling around over there. 77 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:03,160 Berit, they are children. 78 00:04:03,620 --> 00:04:05,480 Is it children? 79 00:04:05,780 --> 00:04:07,500 God, how ravishing they are. 80 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:09,980 - We will try to get them soon. - Who? 81 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,340 - The children. - Yes, we can do that. 82 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,459 You can't do that, Flemming. 83 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,560 - They must belong to someone. - Our own. 84 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,100 - Those from the daycare home. - Oh! 85 00:04:22,940 --> 00:04:24,900 And there is also so much we have to achieve today. 86 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:30,120 But first we have to tumble hand in hand down this cliff. 87 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,500 And then we must stand at the foot 88 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,860 of this sleigh hill and smell freedom. 89 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,240 Smell, Flemming, smell! 90 00:04:44,980 --> 00:04:47,380 We are at a crossroads, Flemming. 91 00:04:47,940 --> 00:04:52,040 From now on the days will be brighter and longer and happier. 92 00:04:52,580 --> 00:04:54,320 - They do? - Yes! 93 00:04:55,060 --> 00:04:58,540 Oh. And then we have to feed the ducks over 94 00:04:58,980 --> 00:05:01,840 there by that small, picturesque forest lake. 95 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:04,880 And relax and take time off. 96 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:09,780 And pondering the old patterns and mechanisms from our first marriages. 97 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,040 And become more… 98 00:05:12,060 --> 00:05:13,980 Spontaneous! 99 00:05:14,020 --> 00:05:15,800 Uh Flemming, that is! 100 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,840 I'm begging you, I'm so hungry! 101 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:25,560 I don't want to be saved anymore if it's 'going to be like that. 102 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:27,540 Now we have to gather firewood, right? 103 00:05:31,420 --> 00:05:33,220 Stack, stack! 104 00:05:33,340 --> 00:05:36,540 Berit, if it have to be so spontaneous everything, why don't we just 105 00:05:36,540 --> 00:05:38,180 throw away what we have in our hands and go out to eat? 106 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:40,480 Just like when we were young! Av! 107 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:42,280 Oh, Flemming! 108 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:44,620 You old bohemian! 109 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,820 I've been waiting for this for ten years! Come on! 110 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:56,020 Two completely spontaneous French hot dogs. 111 00:05:56,420 --> 00:05:58,380 And the usual? 112 00:05:58,740 --> 00:06:01,780 Well, you guys gave up, huh? 113 00:06:01,780 --> 00:06:06,080 Yes, usually only people who have given up come here. 114 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:09,320 high from... 115 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,080 merry Christmas... 116 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:14,180 Oh, Flemming! 117 00:06:14,180 --> 00:06:17,340 Look at all the wretches just rushing by, 118 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:22,180 helplessly trapped by conformity and Christmas spirit. 119 00:06:22,740 --> 00:06:24,620 Yes, if only it was me. 120 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,840 And then look at that blue-frozen, grumpy old 121 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:31,550 man standing and offering his Christmas trees. 122 00:06:31,660 --> 00:06:32,680 Shouldn't we? 123 00:06:32,740 --> 00:06:34,180 No, Flemming! 124 00:06:34,660 --> 00:06:37,480 You know, we screw with customs, rules, 125 00:06:37,580 --> 00:06:41,580 - rituals, ingrained habits. - We do? 126 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,000 Berit, what will you do if it sells out? 127 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,320 Do without! It is magnificent to do without! 128 00:06:47,460 --> 00:06:49,700 What would we do with a Christmas tree? 129 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:51,900 We can just dance around each other. 130 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:55,180 Berit, now you have to get it together, we also have to go to the supermarket. 131 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,800 What were we going to do there? Flemming, it's your holiday! 132 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:01,000 Is it my vacation? 133 00:07:01,380 --> 00:07:03,500 Well done, here you try to make a change on ones life, and 134 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:06,360 then you're nothing but having a piece of shit on your head. 135 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,560 Well, have you given up? 136 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,560 Just don't, you've lost, just admit, though. 137 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,240 Eat the two knacks we've bet about, and then let's to get it over with. 138 00:07:16,660 --> 00:07:18,640 There will be no Christmas here this year. 139 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:21,840 Of course there does. I'll have to see to that. 140 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:23,880 Well, who was going to help you with that? 141 00:07:24,460 --> 00:07:26,160 Him there! 142 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,480 Yes, sorry. Well, yes, will you all please follow along? 143 00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:32,260 It'll only take a moment. 144 00:07:32,580 --> 00:07:34,780 We just have to go right through that door over there. 145 00:07:34,780 --> 00:07:37,580 Well, what happens then? 146 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:47,000 Then you are on television. 147 00:07:47,460 --> 00:07:49,700 Are we on TV? 148 00:07:49,940 --> 00:07:51,200 That was terrible! 149 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:12,720 Yes, good evening to the audience and to the viewers. 150 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:15,820 And once again welcome to the defeat of the week. 151 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,520 The live program about shattered fates in color. 152 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,960 And on the sofa here we have a visit from the couple Berit and Flemming, 153 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:26,280 which is hopelessly behind. 154 00:08:26,820 --> 00:08:30,220 Let me start by asking you directly, how do you even dare? 155 00:08:30,340 --> 00:08:31,920 Have you no shame at all in life? 156 00:08:32,539 --> 00:08:34,179 Yes, I believe so. 157 00:08:34,659 --> 00:08:39,700 How will you explain that you can do it the way you do, while the rest of Denmark's 158 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,380 population has to whip from Herod to Pilate, 159 00:08:42,580 --> 00:08:45,220 in order to make this holiday stick together? 160 00:08:45,780 --> 00:08:48,440 Do you really feel that much above other people? 161 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,340 - Yes, if I can just be allowed to... - No, they can't. 162 00:08:51,860 --> 00:08:54,160 We have come into possession of some copies 163 00:08:54,260 --> 00:08:58,000 here of your grocery bills for the last 14 days. 164 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,960 And it honestly doesn't look too good, not to mention your home. 165 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,520 - Shall we take a look? - Preferably not. 166 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:09,520 Ooh... 167 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:11,520 No... 168 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,990 Good gracious, how gorgeous it is. 169 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,680 Yes, ladies and gentlemen. It can hardly get any worse. 170 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:22,960 We only have to conclude that 171 00:09:23,060 --> 00:09:26,120 the human suffering knows no bounds. 172 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,620 And by the way, to wish you congratulations with that. 173 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,960 The prize is, as usual, a tray of Saturday chicken. 174 00:09:33,380 --> 00:09:37,400 Here you go. And then a complete standard terraced house 175 00:09:37,500 --> 00:09:40,100 furniture set, which we should have on the screen now. 176 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:42,380 Here you go. 177 00:09:54,450 --> 00:09:58,630 So, Berit, this is simply one of the most humiliating things I have ever been exposed to. 178 00:09:58,790 --> 00:10:01,950 - Look Flemming, we have started a house. - Hello, house. 179 00:10:02,510 --> 00:10:06,880 It's so exciting, everything is so new and liberating and different. 180 00:10:07,350 --> 00:10:08,970 - Come on! - No, I can't do it anymore. 181 00:10:09,050 --> 00:10:11,440 I don't want to anymore. Where are we going now? 182 00:10:11,650 --> 00:10:17,470 We, together, will prepare our first meal together in our new home, 183 00:10:17,770 --> 00:10:22,170 in our new life, while we look deep into each other's eyes 184 00:10:23,170 --> 00:10:26,370 in the bright candle light, 185 00:10:26,650 --> 00:10:30,470 while we forget everything... 186 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:32,480 - around us. 187 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:44,480 So what? 188 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:46,800 You need to whisper some sweet words. 189 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:48,860 No, now you have to quit soon. 190 00:10:49,180 --> 00:10:52,280 What's wrong with you, is you are so crappy unromantic. 191 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:53,720 Now I have to tell you something, my fine friend. 192 00:10:53,860 --> 00:10:56,640 - Here you come home dead tired from work. - Stop! 193 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:57,740 Do you know what this is? 194 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:01,580 This is our very first crisis in our new life together. 195 00:11:01,780 --> 00:11:03,120 Isn't it wonderful? 196 00:11:03,780 --> 00:11:04,900 Oh, come Flemming. 197 00:11:04,900 --> 00:11:09,540 Let's go inside and be-sail our young happiness inside on the sofa. 198 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,980 Suddenly I feel the need to have some children. 199 00:11:13,660 --> 00:11:16,060 Some children? So, quite frankly, Berit. 200 00:11:16,220 --> 00:11:17,680 Shouldn't we start by picking up the ones we have? 201 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:20,980 Yes, you know, Kim and Louise at seven and nine years old respectively. 202 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:22,900 Them on the daycare home. 203 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,520 - Well, it's not urgent. - Yes, it does. 204 00:11:26,860 --> 00:11:28,100 It's getting closed down in ten minutes. 205 00:11:28,500 --> 00:11:30,880 Oh. 206 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:35,880 "THE DAY CARE HOME- EVERYTHING NEEDS TO GO!" 207 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:37,420 Berit, I'm so nervous. 208 00:11:37,860 --> 00:11:39,940 Just that they can recognize us. 209 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:46,420 What is it about? 210 00:11:46,620 --> 00:11:49,020 - Yes, we had to pick up a few children. - Children? 211 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:53,200 Well, it's almost Christmas again, huh? 212 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,500 Well, just a minute, I'll see if there are more. 213 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:00,060 After all, they are very popular right up to 214 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:03,400 the Christmas days, when people can't get around the tree. 215 00:12:03,540 --> 00:12:05,940 Yes, their names are Kim and Louise, if that helps. 216 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:08,620 I'm excited to see what they look like, Flemming. 217 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,300 Yes, there seem to be many who are. 218 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,440 You are sure their name isn't Brian? 219 00:12:16,340 --> 00:12:19,600 Well, there is still a backlog unclaimed. 220 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:22,380 No, wait a minute. 221 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,160 Kim and Louise? 222 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:29,940 Well, are they those with the hair and the teeth, 223 00:12:30,043 --> 00:12:32,980 - and then those big, shiny, pleading eyes? - Yes, yes. 224 00:12:34,060 --> 00:12:36,820 Well, I remember them. 225 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:39,740 No, I haven't seen them in a long time. 226 00:12:39,740 --> 00:12:41,000 Haven't they? 227 00:12:41,660 --> 00:12:42,660 That was strange. 228 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:43,820 Where could they have gone? 229 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:46,460 Yes, I'll tell you. 230 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,460 They have been lost. Merry Christmas. 231 00:12:52,740 --> 00:12:54,500 Have they been lost? 232 00:12:59,740 --> 00:13:04,500 --- Subtitles by Essery. 2025. ---