FREE ON YOUTUBE Frozen Land

Frozen Land begins with a dismissal and ends with a shooting. In between we experience a fateful chain of coincidences. A chain reaction of mishaps. The protagonists are: Alcoholics, losers and depressives whose paths cross in Helsinki. It's strange, but we feel with them and laugh at their misfortune at the same time. And they are all doomed! That is how it works: We think; these poor pigs! We want to embrace them. But then our sympathy begins to dwindle. And in the end I think that they can only be as good as they can be. I find it fascinating that I must never be sure whether I should cry or laugh with these guys. Life in Helsinki is bleak, grim and sad. These figures are not tragic, but very stupid, unsuspecting, even mentally ill. Of course, they look into the world just as motionlessly as passively. After all, Frozen Land is a Finnish film! And in Finnish movies little people are usually crushed by an inexorable system. They never smile, smoke a lot and always expect the worst. Like the drug-addicted hustler who starts the chain reaction with a 500 Euro bill. Or the vacuum cleaner salesman who struggles with alcohol problems. Or the criminal computer nerd. The paradox of human existence.

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