The film reflects the tenderness and kindness of director Aki Kaurismaki to our audience, and it is also a kind of goodwill to the people of that era in Finland. Most films that are intended to reflect social problems will always "sell miserable" through the protagonists. As a way to provoke reflection in society, Aki Kaurismaki is brilliant, entertaining audiences with humorous conversations. And raised the topic of eternal discussion: If your life could be repeated, how would you choose to live it?
The beginning of the film is cruel and bloody, and we just watched as the gangster gave the hero a blow in the head, took away his few money, and killed him. As a whole, the movie takes the bizarre resurrection of the hero as a node, and divides the movie into reality and the lower-level paradise created by the director for us. When the male protagonist was about to die, the doctor said something intriguing: "Get the mortuary ready, I will go to the delivery room." The protagonist also had the chance to start over because of chance.
Then he has a love that doesn't care about material things, a friendship with heart and lungs, a policeman who loves to oppress the bottom people but has good intentions, and even the story of the bankrupt boss being forced to rob a bank has an admirable and perfect story behind it. It can be said that the director has blended his criticism of the society and good expectations into it. At the end of the film, the male protagonist did not hesitate to give up the relatively decent life "before his death", and chose to have nothing and a carefree life at the bottom. . . .
So if you could start your life all over again, what would you do?
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