Early in Christoffer Boe's debut feature Reconstruction, Nikolaj Lie Kaas meets a woman in a bar and runs through his standard pick-up patter, including his standard acknowledgment that the patter is a put-on, followed by his explanation of how the woman is supposed to react. Later, in the same bar but not necessarily at the same time, Kaas shows a woman (played by the same actress, Maria Bonnevie) three identical snapshots of a female nude, and explains that the pictures represent the choices that everyone faces. In between those scenes, Boe inserts overhead shots of city blocks with the names of the characters and their current locations labeled, map-like, and he has Krister Henriksson, playing an author, occasionally narrate the story of Kaas' two-timing relationship with two women, both played by Bonnevie.
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