43/25
I’m a bit conflicted about how I feel about this film
Story
It tells the empowering story of an abused single mother working at a small-town newspaper who becomes drawn into a life-changing investigation into a rocket crash in a small northern village.. It is based on a real-life incident in December 1984, when a Soviet surface-to-air missile went astray. came from the Barents Sea across the Finnish border and crashed on Inarijärvi. The lifting of the missile found in January 1985 was finally covered by a large number of international media..
However, the development of the projectile story itself was very long and often quite tedious
On the one hand, I think it would be too dry to have a movie just about this missile incident, especially considering that the only available setting would always have to be this frozen Lapland village and various dark closed areas. So the (rather predictable) idea of combining it with a family drama was what they went with. The leading lady acted brilliantly, and the strongest part of the film was the depiction of domestic abuse and how adults can almost develop two personalities when talking to children or other adults. .
But that is simply not enough
The choice was to make the army unsympathetic and Lapin Uutiset outsiders, but again without the kind of "drive" of those main characters, let’s get bogged down at a snail’s pace. I haven’t seen much Finnish cinema yet, but it seems Hannu-Pekka Björkman is in every Finnish film ever made. He’s great at it, and his simple one-on-ones with Oon Airola are probably the best moments we have. The interaction and bewilderment as these hopeless alcoholics hung out with the top brass of the BBC for the once time in their lives – that kind of stuff was really enjoyable.
However, for all my criticisms, there are plenty of laughs and our two main protagonists have great chemistry on screen
I didn’t know this was a true story (at least the missile part) until I did a wikipedia search the day after watching it. Like most flawed historical films, it doesn’t hang on enough and relies too much on the kind of angst (in this film’s case, nuclear angst) that I just didn’t feel as a viewer. Therefore, the choice of building suspense was not right and I think that a shorter, sweeter film that would have removed the extended "people sitting in meetings" scenes and "people making small talk in the shower" scenes (although Väyrynen’s joke was good) would have been much stronger. But this is Finnish cinema we’re talking about: there HAS to be 30 minutes of film dedicated to people speaking incoherently (or not speaking at all) in boardrooms.
The metaphorical duality of danger at home and danger to the world is well written and acted – it just needed better editing
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