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Together (Swedish: Tillsammans) is a 2000 comedy/drama film. It is Swedish director Lukas Moodysson's second full length film. Set in a Stockholm commune called "Tillsammans" (Swedish for "Together") in 1975, it is a satirical view of socialist values and a bittersweet comedy.
Together is set in one of the communes that sprang up around Stockholm in the 1970s. Vaguely led by the sweet-natured Göran, who will do anything to avoid a conflict, the group spend their time arguing about left-wing politics and other questions such as whether doing the dishes is bourgeois. The commune's dynamics are significantly shaken when Göran's sister leaves her violent husband Rolf and moves in with her two children, Eva and Stefan.
Self-declared lesbian Anna lives in the commune with her ex-husband Lasse and their son Tet (named after the Tet offensive) who befriends Stefan playing games such as "torture the Pinochet victim" where, in the spirit of equality, they take turns at being Pinochet. Eva meanwhile befriends a lonely boy across the street, whose own family whilst being as conventional as possible on the surface, proves to be even more dysfunctional than the commune of whom they so openly disapprove. The children are portrayed as sidelined by everyone in the film, from the new school where they are bullied to the parents who, whilst genuinely loving, are too busy experimenting with their own freedom to show it.
I could stand on the roof of this dump
try not to fall, try not to jump
take hold of my anger, it needs lettin' go
up on a roof, look out below i'll go!
alone!
alone!
all alone!
i could find a quiet corner somewhere
look 'round the room because it's gotta be clear take out my frustrations, they won't be missed
a quiet corner, one has gotta exist i'll go! alone!
alone!
all alone!
we could go there together
if we could go there
together everything's better let's go there together
i've got a reason to be on the roof
i'm gonna show you the damage and
i'll show you the proof
show you someone who needs somewhere to go
up on the roof, look out below i'll go!
alone!
alone!
all alone!
we could go there together
i wish we could go there
together everything's better
let's go there together
i'll go!
i'll go there alone!
all alone!
i'll go!
we could go there together
why don't we go there
together everything's better