As said in the last post I watched this movie Leijonasydän ( Heart of a Lion). If you haven't seen the movie or don't know what is it about, the trailer with English subtitles is available at the end of this post.
The basic plot is that a neo-Nazi, Teppo, falls in love with a women, Sari, who has a dark-skinned son from her previous marriage. This leads to a inner battle within Teppo to be with Sari or to continue with the Neo-Nazis. His inner battle changes at the end to a battle with him and his fellow Neo-Nazis whose leader he is. At the end he starts calling Rhamadhani his son and defending him and leaves/is forced to leave the Neo-Nazis.
This is once again a movie that I wouldn't say was pleasant to watch, but still it was extremely good and thought provoking. I'll write another post of these thoughts. The movie has a lot of violence and the violence is more cruel than in splatter movies etc. The violence is beating and kicking etc. Everything looks very real and that is the frightening part of it.
Another Finnish Movie that made me think as much and created similar emotions is Arto Halonen's Prinsessa (Princess), that tells the true story of Anna Lappalainen. Lappalainen is a cabaree dancer, who thinks she is a princess and is sent to Kellokoski Mental Hospital. This movie touched upon issues such as what is ethical medical treatment with using treatments such as shock therapy and lobotomy.
The differences with these movies was that in Princess there was humor also incorporated into to the movie, where as there wasn't any single scene in Heart of a Lion that made me be on a positive mood or laugh.
I'm not a huge fan of Finnish movies, since they have the weird Finnish humor. I don't even usually understand the humor and I am Finnish and have lived here for 15 years of my life. These movies didn't have this weird Finnish humor that has twisted relationships, alcoholism etc. And where there was a little of it, it had a purpose.
The basic plot is that a neo-Nazi, Teppo, falls in love with a women, Sari, who has a dark-skinned son from her previous marriage. This leads to a inner battle within Teppo to be with Sari or to continue with the Neo-Nazis. His inner battle changes at the end to a battle with him and his fellow Neo-Nazis whose leader he is. At the end he starts calling Rhamadhani his son and defending him and leaves/is forced to leave the Neo-Nazis.
This is once again a movie that I wouldn't say was pleasant to watch, but still it was extremely good and thought provoking. I'll write another post of these thoughts. The movie has a lot of violence and the violence is more cruel than in splatter movies etc. The violence is beating and kicking etc. Everything looks very real and that is the frightening part of it.
Another Finnish Movie that made me think as much and created similar emotions is Arto Halonen's Prinsessa (Princess), that tells the true story of Anna Lappalainen. Lappalainen is a cabaree dancer, who thinks she is a princess and is sent to Kellokoski Mental Hospital. This movie touched upon issues such as what is ethical medical treatment with using treatments such as shock therapy and lobotomy.
The differences with these movies was that in Princess there was humor also incorporated into to the movie, where as there wasn't any single scene in Heart of a Lion that made me be on a positive mood or laugh.
I'm not a huge fan of Finnish movies, since they have the weird Finnish humor. I don't even usually understand the humor and I am Finnish and have lived here for 15 years of my life. These movies didn't have this weird Finnish humor that has twisted relationships, alcoholism etc. And where there was a little of it, it had a purpose.
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