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The lifting of the missile found in January 1985 was finally followed by a large number of international media
Tale
Tells the empowering story of an abused single mother working at a small-town newspaper who gets drawn into the investigation surrounding the missile crash, which upends life in a small northern village.. It is based on a real case from December 1984, when a Soviet surface-to-air missile strayed from the Barents Sea across Finland’s borders and crashed into Inarijärvi.
I’m somewhat conflicted in how I feel about this film
On the one hand, I think it would be too dry to have a movie solely about this incident regarding the missile, especially considering that the only settings available would always have to be this frozen Lappi countryside and the various dark indoor areas. Therefore, the (rather predictable) idea to combine it with a family drama was what they went with.The leading lady acted wonderfully and the most powerful part of the movie was its portrayal of domestic abuse, and how adults can almost develop two personalities when talking to children or other adults.However, the development of the missile story itself was very long, and often quite tedious.
He’s great in this, and his simple one-on-ones with Oona Airola are probably the finest moments that we get
The choice was to make the military unsympathetic and Lapin Uutiset the underdogs, but again without the kind of "drive" from those main characters, we get bogged down at a snail’s pace. I’ve not seen a great deal of Finnish cinema yet, but Hannu-Pekka Björkman appears to be in every Finnish film ever made.
I didn’t know that this was a true story (the missile part at least) until a wikipedia search the day after viewing
The interaction and perplexion as these no-hoper alcoholics mix for the only time in their lives with the top brass at the BBC – that kind of stuff was really enjoyable.But there’s just not enough of it. Like most flawed historical films, it doesn’t hold enough and relies too much on the kind of angst (in this film’s case, nuclear angst) that as a viewer I just didn’t feel.
The metaphorical duality of dangers at home and dangers for the world was written and played out well – it just needed better editing
Therefore, the choice to build the suspense wasn’t a correct one, and I think a shorter, sweeter film that cut out the extended "people sitting down in meetings" scenes and "people having inconsistent shower conversations" scenes (although the Väyrynen joke was a good one) would have been a much stronger one. But this is Finnish cinema we’re talking about: there HAS to be 30 minutes of the film dedicated to people talking inconsistently (or not at all) in meeting rooms.However, in spite of all my criticisms, there are a lot of laughs and our two main protagonists have great on-screen chemistry.
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