Aberdeen is a 2000 drama film directed by Hans Petter Moland, starring Stellan Skarsgård, Lena Headey and Charlotte Rampling.
The song Skarsgård hums throughout the movie and eventually is played in the end scene is the Swedish song "Balladen om herr Fredrik Åkare och den söta fröken Cecilia Lind" by Cornelis Vreeswijk.
Despite being called "Aberdeen", the film is not set within the Scottish City of Aberdeen, although the North East City has many links with Norway and its heritage. However, the characters are linked by the City.
Plot
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn't seen in years. The impatient Kaisa reluctantly agrees. The story is a ruse: mom is dying and wants her ex and her daughter together again. The trip gets complicated (dad is too drunk to fly and the hot-tempered Kaisa gets them banned from the airline): they go by ferry then car, needing a great deal of help along the way from a sweet lorry driver named Clive. Will they reach Aberdeen before mom's death, and will Kaisa find any stability within herself or in others?
Keywords: aberdeen-scotland, airplane, airport, airport-terminal, alcoholism, bar, bare-breasts, beer, bergen-norway, biological-father
Tomas: Young girls are supposed to lose their virginity. It happens to a lot of nice people.
Kairo 'Kaisa' Heller: Fine, call security. Fucking Bitch, d'ya know that? [puts middle finger up at her]::Airline Stewardess: Is that supposed to be a threat?::Kairo 'Kaisa' Heller: Err, no, no. It's an index finger you dimwit, but that [shows a fist]... that's a fist. But not for hitting... for fist-fucking tight arsed pussies like your good self!
I've been trying real hard to realize
But some things take a long, long
Long, long time
Long time
Hold the phone, hit repeat
Got me foaming at the knees
Saw the flame, tasted sin
You burned me once again
Cut the cord, she's a creep
Aberdeen
Way back
Way back
Way back
Never saw my dark side, in, in your eyes
Back and forth, bloody fingers
Painting up the sky
The sky
Hold the phone, hit repeat
Got me foaming at the knees
Saw the flame, tasted sin
You burned me once again
Cut the cord, she's a creep
Aberdeen
Way back
Way back
Way back
Hold the phone, hit repeat
Got me foaming at the knees
Saw the flame, tasted sin
You burned me once again
Cut the cord, she's a creep
Aberdeen, Aberdeen
Way back
Way back
Way back
Way back
Way back
Way back
Way back
Way back
Way back
Way back
Way back
Way back
Way back
There is a tree
Flowers in spring
White cherry buds
22 rings
I helped her grow
But have never seen
Carolina winter, or Aberdeen.
From the Mississippi floodgates
My body churned
Up the river delta
My mother yearned
To taste the sweetness of her pain
Falling down
In Carolina rain
And if I stay, I’ll stay today
My body will follow in her wake
If I’m to go, I’ll go away
To Aberdeen, and there I’ll wait
She stayed by the sea
Hardened town
Smell of fish
Watered down
Taste of liquor
On her mouth
And her heart it wandered
Down to the south
And if I stay, I’ll stay today
My body will follow in her wake
If I’m to go, I’ll go away
To Aberdeen, and there I’ll wait
Her body is now
Hard from the years
She’s still as strong
Still as fierce
I’ve taken all she had to give
And given back the will to live
And if I stay, I’ll stay today
My body will follow in her wake
If I’m to go, I’ll go away
Woke up today
I saw the rain come in
What could i do to shake this mess i'm in
Who could of told me
For i never wanted it this way
In a year of februarys
Where is my sunny day
What could i do, what could i say
If it all was gone
How could you take me another way
Or am i wrong
If i'm mistaking for taking the road less traveled
Please take me outside and say
"i think it's time to sleep on it
Don't make up your mind just yet
Wait till the morning comes"
What could i do, what could i say
If it all was gone
How could you take me another way
Or am i wrong
If i'm mistaking for taking the road less traveled
Please take me outside and say....
Who's there for you to turn to
For i really want you to know
Who's there to watch your back
At times when you feel alone
Who's there to watch you
Who's there by your side
Always and for ever waiting, waiting for you
What could i do, what could i say
If it all was gone
How could you take me another way
Or am i wrong
If i'm mistaking for taking the road less traveled
There’s a place in every city,
In a bottom, wound and relieved,
Where some yellow headed girl
Whispers anyone who listens how she feels.
She stoops too low, but she will conquer
With no malice and no kind,
She’s the child of late night whiskey talk,
If late night whiskey talk had a child.
Do you remember Aberdeen when you and I was 17?
Eyes and place and thickest teeth.
And malice, you’ll remember
All of the promises he made
The night he told me all about him
In the bed where you have laid.
And all the sheets were off like restless waves
Frown around in this array
And I loved you then, but I dared not speak
For fear, for fear of what you’ll say.
And the roads rode by so dearly great
And I tell myself that they’ll end someday
When I find out what I mean to say,
When words come a little closer.
If I’d known back then what I’ve since learned
How a fire can warm, how a fire can burn,
We dashed down the stars but I have returned if I was
lost
In the silence, I could hear your heart beating.
In a barrow on a city street,
With a pretty girl with blistered feet,
I don’t know ‘bout you, but I can’t compete
When it comes to drinking games.
You stoop too low, but you will conquer,
As you have conquered every time,
You’re the child of late night whiskey talk
If late night whiskey talk had a child.
And I’ll leave you there in Aberdeen,
In a torn red dress, with that crazy grin.
Ragged girl, red hair, white skin,
How you make me giddy when you draw me in.
I will leave you there in Aberdeen,
With my heart in your hands, the way it’s always been.
Girl, I loved so deeply, but I dare not win
Should you go to Aberdeen
tell me what you find
a girl I known in Aberdeen
who left her heart behind
Tho the northern lights
have claimed her as their own
Tell her that I hope she's well
and beg her to come home
tell her that I hope she's well
and beg her to come home
If the cost of livings high
I can pay my way
with money that I had put by
for any rainy day
If left or right of two
is all she understands
Tell her that I love her still
no matter what her plans
tell her that I always will
no matter what her plan
Ba bai up dup baah
We had plans the we never
saw acheived that we can be
I took the ime to remember
all that we did, and we forget to
If you take a friend along
take me in his place
every piece of shit I own
throw back into my face
Tho the northern lights
may have claimed her as their own
I could move to Aberdeen
and make the place my home
s'not the finest place I've been
but I'll make the place
make the place my home
ba ba dap ba baiaia dow
lets go outside,
it's sunny in california
if you were by my side,
and for awhile I would feel like normal
and hey, don't look now
but you're looking back down again
and hey, don't look now
you were looking back down again.
goin' for a ride,
in sunny california
if you were by my side,
for awhile I'd feel like marmelade.
and hey, don't look now
but you're looking back down again
and hey, don't look now
you were looking back down again.
go back to the sun,
back to everyone.
back to the sand and the sea,
where I can be me.
go back to the sun,
back to everyone.
back to the sand and the sea,
where I can be me.
don't look down but,
you're looking back down again.
don't look now
you were looking back down again.
go back to the sun,
back to everyone.
back to the sand and the sea,
where I can be me.
go back to the sun,
back to everyone.
back to the sand and the sea,
where I can be me.
go back to the sun,
back to everyone.
back to the sand and the sea,
where I can be me.
go back to the sun,
back to everyone.
back to the sand and the sea,
where I can be me.
go back to the sun,
back to everyone.
back to the sand and the sea,
where I can be me.
go back to the sun,
back to everyone.
back to the sand and the sea,
where I can be me.
Woke up today
I saw the rain come in
What could i do to shake this mess i'm in
Who could of told me
For i never wanted it this way
In a year of februarys
Where is my sunny day
What could i do, what could i say
If it all was gone
How could you take me another way
Or am i wrong
If i'm mistaking for taking the road less traveled
Please take me outside and say
"i think it's time to sleep on it
Don't make up your mind just yet
Wait till the morning comes"
What could i do, what could i say
If it all was gone
How could you take me another way
Or am i wrong
If i'm mistaking for taking the road less traveled
Please take me outside and say....
Who's there for you to turn to
For i really want you to know
Who's there to watch your back
At times when you feel alone
Who's there to watch you
Who's there by your side
Always and for ever waiting, waiting for you
What could i do, what could i say
If it all was gone
How could you take me another way
Or am i wrong
If i'm mistaking for taking the road less traveled
Please take me outside and say....
And he won't be there
To tell things to you at night
Cause he's got wise now
And he's no longer her fool
You know she's missing him
She made a bad decision
So far away and
In a different world now
And you were his friend
But this time, this time
He'll be smarter
The boy has gone away
He has played his part
The boy has gone away
The boy is looking sharp
The boy has gone away
He has played his part
The boy has gone away
The boy is looking sharp
And in his place now
He's got someone who'll be there
He still thinks of her
And that won't go away
You know he's missing her
She made the wrong decision
But he's much harder
And he doesn't miss the way
That you were his friend
But this time, this time
He'll be smarter
The boy has gone away
He has played his part
The boy has gone away
The boy is looking sharp
The boy has gone away
He has played his part
The boy has gone away
The boy is looking sharp
The boy has gone away
The boy has gone away
When I get out of Aberdeen one of these days
Trade in the truck and these fields of green for a ticket on the airways
I've seen pictures in magazines of skyscrapers and light displays
And all that I can think about is getting away
Every dollar I have saved
Every winter I have braved
Every road that I have paved
Leads to somewhere
Never was there any doubt
I would make my way out
I want to know what life's all about
And I will get there
Like clockwork the sun rises on this farm
Brightens the hills and wakes the trees, this town has its charm
But when you see it day in and day out for over twenty years
What once was a choice becomes obvious, now it's clear
When I get out of Aberdeen one of these days
I'm not quite sure which way I'll lean, but it won't matter anyway
And I'll never forget about you,
We'll meet again someday
(Bukka White)
I was over in Aberdeen
On my way to New Orleans
I was over in Aberdeen
On my way to New Orleans
Well them Aberdeen women told me
They would give me my gasoline
Aberdeen is my home
But they just don't want me around
Aberdeen is my home
But they just don't want me around
I'm gonna take these women
Take them out of this town
Well just look over yonder
Coming down the road
Well just look over yonder
Coming down the road
That must be my baby coming
Tell me she don't want me no more
Well there's too many women
I ain't never seen
Well there's too many women
I ain't never seen
I bring too many women
Back from New Orleans
I was standing around crying
With my heart right in my hand
I was standing around crying
With my heart right in my hand
I was looking for that woman
One ain't got no man
Well just look over yonder
Where we used to live
Well just look over yonder
Where we used to live
Don't you know it's killing me baby
How we can't live here no more
Well it's goodbye baby
If I'm never gonna see you no more
Well it's goodbye baby
If I'm never gonna see you no more
I'm gonna tell everybody you've been