What will you think or expect of a film with the name ‘The Worst Person in The World’? While it all depends, my impression upon hearing such a name is ‘the person is not good in the least’, and, this Norwegian movie adopting this name hasn’t proved me wrong.

After trying one type of job after another, Julie, a woman approaching thirty, finally settles in a bookshop. She is a blissful woman who is capable of choosing among her studies, jobs, and male partners of her own free will, only she finds herself restless suffering from millennial anxiety not knowing what to decide about her love life behaving more than indecisive. In the movie, she has all the way exposed the truest her to us in a stark-naked way with the absolute freedom she adamantly advocates. Seeing the whole journey of how she plays her role as a free person in the film makes me feel free too, only I am sure that this kind of freedom has a price to pay.

Aksel, a different cartoonist who holds a vastly different opinion about politics in his work fears not critics. Julie loves him even after the first time he has had sex with her and warns her that they may not live the same dream sharing the same life values, suggesting that they should end the relationship. No sooner than they have been together for a short period does Aksel explicitly tell Julie he wants family and children (he is a decade older than Julie) that is diametrically opposed to what she wants and thinks, and such a chasm has triggered not a few unpleasant but bold and honest arguments between them. Still, Julie cohabits with him until she falls in love with another man Eivind.

Eivind encounters Julie by accident at a party at which Julie is an uninvited guest. She just butts in as a stranger to the party without anyone noticing she is so. Again, Julie has arbitrarily exposed to us her extreme whim with action. While having Aksel as her lover, Julie flirts with Eivind in many ways that have exceeded many an unwritten rule that a man and a woman have to abide by. With intimate dances with flirtation and some other behaviors that have involved some carnal connections that are crazy but mesmerizing to remember, they allege to each other that they haven’t cheated on their partners. It is a bit too unconvincing and rife with irresponsibility when they have blatantly done something that has exceeded a normal and decent relationship between a man and a woman.

At the end of the movie, Aksel dies of illness, Eivind gets married, and Julie is still single after she has spent her time with freedom and sex. My sentiment is Julie will make good use of the rest of her life afterward by changing her personality, facing her problems, and rectifying her mistakes by regaining moral strength to love her man faithfully to achieve a meaningful life because she should have come to learn that merely indulging in sex letting freedom be a shield to love whimsically with excitement is derogatory, hurtful, and comes to naught finally.

Julie’s life has nothing to do with millennial anxiety but everything to do with sexual morality. Love and sex, all the time, are natural, pure, and sacred, and we have to treat them in a respectful and serious way. It is an individual’s mentality and attitudes towards love and sex rather than the time the phenomenon of society or any other circumstances you may then claim unfavorable or unpleasant. The sky under Norway is no less dim than that of others.