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Under the Sun

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Under the Sun	comment	Under the Sun (Under Solen) is a 1998 film from Sweden directed by Colin Nutley.The setting is the early 1950s. Olof is a farmer who turned 40 not long ago. He has lived alone since his mother died nearly a decade ago. Olaf is illiterate, and as a consequence depends on his cheerful younger friend Erik for many mundane tasks like paying bills.Olof puts an ad in the paper for a housekeeper, although his motives are obviously mixed—he specifies a young woman to keep house, and he asks for a photograph. He gets an answer from a good-looking blonde named Ellen, who settles down in Olof's house immediately. Predictably, feelings begin to develop between Olof and Ellen, but Erik is suspicious. He does a little investigating and discovers that Ellen has a secret.
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Under the Sun / int_2b3fa921	type	Down on the Farm
Under the Sun / int_2b3fa921	comment	Down on the Farm: Olof has a rural chicken farm. It is a quite primitive place without running water, requiring both he and Ellen to use chamber pots. There are also many shots of the rustic beauty of Olof's land.
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Under the Sun / int_2e6a41e0	type	Gratuitous English
Under the Sun / int_2e6a41e0	comment	Gratuitous English: Erik has worked as a sailor and claims to have spent a lot of time in America. He apparently knows English well, as when he sees Ellen he drops into English and says "Oh, the lady with the legs!"
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Under the Sun / int_3f267047	type	Voiceover Letter
Under the Sun / int_3f267047	comment	Voiceover Letter: Ellen's goodbye letter to Olof, in which she confesses that she's married and she's leaving to "set things right." Her voicever is intercut with Erik's malicious misreading of the letter in which he pretends Ellen simply robbed Olof and left.
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Under the Sun / int_409c178f	type	Zip Me Up
Under the Sun / int_409c178f	comment	Zip Me Up: Olof catches Ellen halfway through taking her dress off, and asks her to keep it on for dinner. She says that he'll need to zip her up—and this leads to his Anguished Declaration of Love after he zips her up, although he's still too shy to kiss her.
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Under the Sun / int_4143f84f	type	Leg Focus
Under the Sun / int_4143f84f	comment	Leg Focus: Ellen sits on her suitcase by the side of the road, crossing and recrossing her lovely legs. Lampshaded when Erik, who passed by her driving a cart, sees her again and calls her "the lady with the legs."
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Under the Sun / int_52c3c556	type	Blade-of-Grass Cut
Under the Sun / int_52c3c556	comment	Blade-of-Grass Cut: There are a couple of close-up shots of bugs crawling around Olof's window, emphasizing the isolation of the farm and how he hasn't kept it very clean. Later there's an extreme closeup of strawberries on the vine, which were Ellen's idea, and which shows how she's improved things.
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Under the Sun / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Under the Sun / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Erik finally figures out what Ellen is hiding: she's married.
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Under the Sun / int_7a2d9301	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
Under the Sun / int_7a2d9301	comment	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Erik brags about meeting Elvis Presley, and is shocked when Ellen does not know who that is.
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Under the Sun / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
Under the Sun / int_9438e550	comment	The Big Damn Kiss: Between Ellen and Olof at the end when she finally returns and he learns what her letter really said.
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Under the Sun / int_9cede50e	type	Toplessness from the Back
Under the Sun / int_9cede50e	comment	Toplessness from the Back: In a scene where Ellen is washing in her room, after the sexual tension has gotten up to boiling point.
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Under the Sun / int_a8c50563	type	Bathtub Scene
Under the Sun / int_a8c50563	comment	Bathtub Scene: In a scene thick with sexual tension, Ellen announces that she'd like a bath, and Olof helps her fill the old-fashioned clawfoot bathtub with water. She then takes her bath, with Olaf on the other side of a closed door listening, and Ellen very aware that Olof is listening.
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Under the Sun / int_b5dded87	type	Gossipy Hens
Under the Sun / int_b5dded87	comment	Gossipy Hens: The pastor, who cannot resist telling Erik how he found out about Olof putting out an ad for a housekeeper. When Erik tells him to keep his mouth shut, the pastor has the effrontery to say "You know me, mum's the word."
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Under the Sun / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Under the Sun / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Erik might be sincerely thinking that Ellen is a Gold Digger—it does seem a little bit odd that such a hot woman would be content to be a housekeeper—but part of the problem is that he's clearly attracted to her himself, and jealous of Olof. He also seems to be jealous of Ellen, getting upset when Olof forgets his and Erik's monthly trip to the races because he's off buying Ellen a dress.
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Under the Sun / int_c0c7a82e	type	Of Corsets Sexy
Under the Sun / int_c0c7a82e	comment	Of Corsets Sexy: Discussed Trope, as Erik says that the laundry has gotten "more interesting" and points to Ellen's underwear, including a corset, hanging out on the clothesline. He wonders how women fit themselves into corsets.
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Under the Sun / int_ce090f4b	type	Translation with an Agenda
Under the Sun / int_ce090f4b	comment	Translation with an Agenda: Ellen, who does not know that Olof is illiterate, leaves a good-bye note in which she confesses that she's married, proclaims her love for him, and says she'll sort things out. Olof gives the note to Erik to read. Erik maliciously makes up a completely different message, pretending that the note says Erik gave her money to pay off a debt and she left with it, and leaving out the declaration of love.
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Under the Sun / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Under the Sun / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: Erik, who sometimes works as a sailor, announces that he is leaving because he's joined up to sail on the Andrea Doria. The Andrea Doria famously sank in the mid-Atlantic after a collision with another ship in 1956, although almost everyone was saved.
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Under the Sun / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Under the Sun / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	Never Learned to Read: Olof is illiterate. Erik knows but most other people, including Ellen, don't. This becomes plot-relevant when Ellen leaves a note behind, Olof asks Erik to read it, and Erik makes up some stuff about Ellen confessing that she stole money from Olaf.
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Under the Sun / int_f51e530a	type	Romantic Rain
Under the Sun / int_f51e530a	comment	Romantic Rain: Olof and Ellen make love in a barn with a leaky room, and get soaked by a rainstorm. Erik shows up when they are mid-coitus but Ellen tells Olof not to stop.
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