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attic room..and there is an air of electricity. Footsteps, and she announces that it is the math
teacher—paunchy older man totally absorbed in his hunt for other objects in another part of the
large room. Cornered as she pulls out a long roll of map, Stig envelopes her with his arms and
kisses her. Startled she pushes away—.but not a whole lot. He embraces her again, and gives her
soft little kisses , on and around her mouth, and she responds in kind. Arias from the Handel
composition are heard and indeed for the next parts of the movie which will show their
lovemaking, we also hear the exquisite Handel arias—the music of their love.
But not right away. They go back down to the classroom. The next few days she is in deep
reflective thought at her desk, and he is having a sexual awakening. They don't talk.
One day he knocks at her door at her home. She is in a robe, surprised to see him but lets him in.
They start kissing each other; the Handel aria sings its soulful verse.
Next we see them sitting on the couch, laughing. Her hair is loosened, she is very girlish looking,
and very happy. They both are and the Handel music crescendos.
She tells him he must not arrive unannounced as her husband could be home. He says he didn't
see a car parked. "It's not that easy", she explains, as she tells him the make of the car, and the
four places he must check where it could also be parked. She says when her husband comes
home, he mostly sits in the kitchen, drinks and listens intently to classical music. If it happens to
be Beethoven, he is oblivious to the world—no one dares to speak.
Her husband is a traveling salesman—and we find him to be a likable , lonely man, finding
solace in alcohol, and a deep immersion in classical music.
One day he sees Stig in the apartment. Stig is frozen, but Kjell, the husband pleasantly asks
"what language?" Stig doesn't get it, but the husband explains that he knows Stig is being tutored
and "what language is he learning? English?"
After this he accepts Stig's presence, and welcomes it. The boy and the man like each other and
become friends Kjell becomes a loving sensitive father to Stig as we shall see.
This relationship is the main plot of the movie.
Stig lives with his mother and father in an apartment building in which a 15 year old classmate
of Stig's also lives. Her name is Lisbet. She is a pig tailed, virginal school girl, small, just starting
adolescence. She has a huge crush on the handsome, worldly Stig, who she watches all of the
time. She notes what a good person he is, helping his mother with chores, and taking over a
manly role with his family as his father is an alcoholic, and his brother is in the navy. Stig has a
good companionable relationship with his mother, an attractive young woman, resigned to a boor
of a husband, very little money, one son already out of the house, and the other approaching
manhood and separation.
Stig, a model son, gets good grades, helps his mother in a loving way, and works everyday after
school in the cinema, selling chocolates . He carries a tray around his neck filled with sweets and
wears a red toy soldier looking uniform with a pillbox of a red hat that has elastic under the chin
which he despises. He looks silly and juvenile, and much prefers his lover role with Viola. But