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Director's Statement
I BELONG is a film where seemingly trivial issues form the grounds for boundless drama. The frame story is a book, which consists of three different stories with one common theme, which then is illuminated in three different ways. The theme is supposed to accelerate so that what feels pretty trivial and trifling at the beginning will be perceived as a matter of life and death by the end. All the stories are about people who are forced to make decisions that compromise their integrity. Each of the three stories focus on one or several women, and the stories get going through seemingly benign everyday conflicts that occur either at work or in family life, brought out by differences in their idea of work ethic, artistic integrity or class affiliation. The three main characters each represent a kind of person who functions totally normally, who's intelligent and independent, but who, in a tight situation, can react in ways that make others see them as "difficult." This response pattern can be perceived as a weakness because it's not what's expected of them, setting them apart from what's normal. It's meant to start small, for the problems to become increasingly general as the stories develop. While you could be left with the feeling that the problems are due to the character's personal attributes after the first story, after the last you think that it's not about the weakness of individuals, but rather a larger societal problem.