Some haven't liked how Jakob behaved in a scene in the new amazon series on the Ingebritsens.
In the video, you can see that Jakob doesn't want to help pregnant Elisabeth pick up the wardrobe and is annoyed that they "don't have people to do it for them".... "I can stand up for myself just fine. To those who say they had never accepted it; I don't either. He gets a nice message when he doesn't behave."
A film critic in the Netherlands didn't like the series as he said unless you are super familiar with the brothers it was hard to follow.
"Here we are offered no context. None of the people are presented properly. None of the sports presentations are put into context. What we get to see are three nouveau riche bastards who have each built themselves a house of the smooth funky bird box type."
What could go wrong with getting married at 22/23?
It’s not their age that’s the problem. It’s Jakob. To recap:
Jakob didn’t want to help his pregnant wife with domestic chores.
When his wife was near her delivery date, Jakob was training in another country.
While his wife was in labor, Jakob left her at the hospital to go do a track workout.
After the baby was born, Jakob’s wife shared a video of herself crying because caring for a newborn baby is so difficult, and she was having to do so much of it alone.
In the video, you can see that Jakob doesn't want to help pregnant Elisabeth pick up the wardrobe and is annoyed that they "don't have people to do it for them".... "I can stand up for myself just fine. To those who say they had never accepted it; I don't either. He gets a nice message when he doesn't behave."
Hate how people suddenly turn into armchair psychologists after watching a 1 minute clip. I feel like a high-profile couple who has been dating for close to a decade has their sh*t figured out.
Also, the people of Letsrun shouldn't be allowed to comment on the personal affairs of Jakob after this website's reaction to him changing his last name after marriage.
A film critic in the Netherlands didn't like the series as he said unless you are super familiar with the brothers it was hard to follow.
I will jump in on this one. Though to be fair, I have only watched the first episode...
1) Yes, the Dutch critic is right. This makes no sense if you don't already know who the Ingebrigtsens are. The show's producers sort of explain it (via montage) that this is a family of good runners striving for the Olympics and that they are close-knit. This is true, but also not much of what the rest of us already know about Jakob. If you don't know much else, it seems like some skinny randos who are sort of chaotic/whiny.
The challenge is that they clearly didn't want to do a bunch of "backstory" because that would inevitably end up focusing on Gjert and their home situation and childhood. They didn't want to do this, so it is as if the Ingebrigtsens just "started out" at the age they already are today, fully formed.
2) Jakob really does whine about helping to unload the IKEA wardrobe and goes on and on about it. It seems like he is really unsupportive and disinterested. But here's the key, he knows he is on camera and it is sort of the role of "exhausted pro-athlete" and "man" as he says "do we really need this many outfits for a baby?" That is kind of what they would tell him to say if they were writing a script for a "dad" character.
3) His wife Elisabeth is going to be fine. She is a strong personality and can stand up for herself. Unless Jakob has some dormant abusive traits (from his dad), then this is probably the extent of it. I suspect that they are doing a bit of "role playing" in the first episode to illustrate how hard it is to be in their situation.
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I ran my first marathon at age 21. I graduated from college and got married at age 22. Started graduate school at 23 and was hired into my current job at 25. That was all in the mid-90s.
Still love to run, still love the wife, still love the job. It hasn't been 30 years yet, but so far, so good!
I ran my first marathon at age 21. I graduated from college and got married at age 22. Started graduate school at 23 and was hired into my current job at 25. That was all in the mid-90s.
Still love to run, still love the wife, still love the job. It hasn't been 30 years yet, but so far, so good!
Oh come on now. I can believe you still love to run, sort of, but the other two seem like real whoppers.
I ran my first marathon at age 21. I graduated from college and got married at age 22. Started graduate school at 23 and was hired into my current job at 25. That was all in the mid-90s.
Still love to run, still love the wife, still love the job. It hasn't been 30 years yet, but so far, so good!
Are you well adjusted? I ask you, are you well adjusted? If so, I knew people like you. I never understood people like you. I never even believed it. But if so, you didn’t have the ability to do what some of us could do, because we weren’t well adjusted. Tell me you were not well adjusted.
Oh come on now. I can believe you still love to run, sort of, but the other two seem like real whoppers.
Well, lucky for me, I am not married to an archetypal "ball and chain" type wife from the sit-coms. She's still the same person I met back in college. That ability to stay true to who we were when we fell in love has been key. We never "grew apart" or became radically different from who we were when we met. It also helps being married to a good athlete because she understands my love of running and she has also stayed fit (fitter than me!) all these years.
Jakob and Elisabeth's marriage will depend on how much they change in the next decade. Especially if one of them changes and the other stays true to their original sense of self.
Also, my career has been a good balance of "steady" and "exciting" with both physical and intellectual challenges, travel, lots of human interaction, and as Johann Hari put it, "a meaningful sense of purpose combined with autonomy to make most of my own decisions about how to get my job done each day." That phrase is the key to a great career. I could work in a food cart or a shoe store if those factors were still in place (like if I was the owner of the cart/store).
I ran my first marathon at age 21. I graduated from college and got married at age 22. Started graduate school at 23 and was hired into my current job at 25. That was all in the mid-90s.
Still love to run, still love the wife, still love the job. It hasn't been 30 years yet, but so far, so good!
Are you well adjusted? I ask you, are you well adjusted? If so, I knew people like you. I never understood people like you. I never even believed it. But if so, you didn’t have the ability to do what some of us could do, because we weren’t well adjusted. Tell me you were not well adjusted.
Are you well adjusted? I ask you, are you well adjusted? If so, I knew people like you. I never understood people like you. I never even believed it. But if so, you didn’t have the ability to do what some of us could do, because we weren’t well adjusted. Tell me you were not well adjusted.
Get over yourself.
simple.
I would if I could. Some of us are simply not easy to get over.
Are you well adjusted? I ask you, are you well adjusted? If so, I knew people like you. I never understood people like you. I never even believed it. But if so, you didn’t have the ability to do what some of us could do, because we weren’t well adjusted. Tell me you were not well adjusted.
Good question! I am not sure what well adjusted means (in your definition), but I would wager I am kind of boring. I like the same things I have always liked. I love the same things I loved 30 years ago. That shows, to be honest, a lack of growth on my part. On the other hand, I am not bored or miserable or "searching" for meaning. Contentment over chaos. Exploration, yes. Seeking, not so much.
Maybe that is a good definition of a happy person, someone who is not always seeking something else. Of course that is easy for me to say, because I have the things I want.
The ten things I loved most in the world 30 years ago are still my top ten (if you allow me to count my kids as an extension of my wife and myself).
And I would agree that a more unsettled spirit or less contented person could achieve a lot more than I will. Jakob's drive to be the best will make him the best. It doesn't however guarantee that he will be happy. But I hope he will be. He has his brothers and a loving wife, so he's off to a good start!
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2) Jakob really does whine about helping to unload the IKEA wardrobe and goes on and on about it. It seems like he is really unsupportive and disinterested. But here's the key, he knows he is on camera and it is sort of the role of "exhausted pro-athlete" and "man" as he says "do we really need this many outfits for a baby?" That is kind of what they would tell him to say if they were writing a script for a "dad" character.
3) His wife Elisabeth is going to be fine. She is a strong personality and can stand up for herself. Unless Jakob has some dormant abusive traits (from his dad), then this is probably the extent of it. I suspect that they are doing a bit of "role playing" in the first episode to illustrate how hard it is to be in their situation.
Stop making excuses for Jakob. He wasn’t acting. He was being himself. In every interview I’ve seen him do, he comes across as a narcissist. That’s how he comes across in the show. I feel bad for Elisabeth. If they have more kids, things will be that much more difficult for her.
