"Laitakaupungin valot", like other films by director Aki Kaurismäki, is short but dense. More than 70 minutes of film length tells an uncomplicated but really strange story, portraying the life path of a lonely person full of hope and despair for the audience. As far as the story itself is concerned, apart from the director’s approach, the plot itself is not much different from ordinary Hollywood movies. If the director makes the film more sensational and caters to the audience’s cheap sympathy or heroic complex, it is entirely possible to make the hero’s result very sad, even if it fails, it will win the audience’s sympathy and admiration, just like ordinary Hollywood movies often do. The treatment is the same. However, the film took an anti-Hollywood treatment of this behavior. The two challenges of symbolic significance greater than actual significance were quietly resolved, and even all the symbolic meaning behind the behavior was almost resolved. Nowhere to find: Not only was the subject of the hero's challenge unharmed, but he himself was bruised and bruised. This challenging behavior was not paid attention to by anyone and did not inspire sympathy or admiration from anyone, including the sympathy or admiration of the audience. This kind of processing calmly approaches reality and coldly approaches humor.
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Lights in the Dusk evaluation action
2022-01-22 08:03
Extended Reading
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Keven 2022-04-22 07:01:49
The institutions and high-class people in Kaurismaki's films are like a grain of sand in a shell, and they will never be in tune with the low-class people. In this process of repeated friction and suffering, people gradually learned to swallow their voices and bear it silently, and they also developed a strong and optimistic spirit of existentialism. There will be bread!
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Adolphus 2022-04-20 09:02:25
There is no place to be ashamed of such a handsome night shift security guard.
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Bank Manager: [Bank manager is reviewing Koistinen's application for a small-business loan] Tell me, Koistinen... Are you some kind of comedian?
Koistinen: Why?
Bank Manager: Did you come to cheer us up? What are these papers? A trade school diploma... Did you think it will give you a loan of two hundred thousand - without any security, any guarantors?
Koistinen: I'll guarantee it myself, until the company gets going and...
Koistinen: [Interrupting him] Guarantees from trash like you are worthless.
Koistinen: But I've got an account here.
Bank Manager: I won't even take your application further. It's rejected. You're only wasting my time and yours. Go away.
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Mirja: [Worried that Koistinen will squeal] He'll talk. He'll tell them about me.
Lindholm: Koistinen will never betray you. He's loyal as a dog, a sentimental fool. My genius lies in understanding that.