The film focuses on the refugee issue.
As a whole, the number of Syrian refugees is so large that it is hard to avoid the suspicion of being a hustler, but the film focuses on a specific young refugee, showing him how he fled all the way, cared about his lost sister, turned to the office for help, but was rejected and expelled. The violence of neo-Nazis...the audience couldn't help but sympathize.
The film is still in the simple and silent style of Akikorismaki. Finland under Akki's lens will always be a stagnant pool without sunlight. People in the stagnant water live rigidly. It is a puppet manipulated by the director with a string.
The film begins with two lines running side by side; an elderly native Finnish, a small businessman, who has a good or bad life; and a young Syrian refugee who has fled to Finland, with eyes bright like a young wolf, a strong-willed and kind-hearted, Always try to be decent and keep yourself clean.
After the young refugee was rejected by the Finnish authorities and had to escape from the shelter and become a black household, he met the seemingly selfish but kind-hearted old aborigines. This scene was charming. The two of you punched me and punched me, and the two storylines were brought together.
The old native and his restaurant staff selflessly help young refugees, and the latter part of the movie is heartwarming. The moral of Aki's filming of this film is very clear. Refugees are human beings, and they want to live well, and as human bystanders, they should help them through the difficulties.
Probably because of the original intention of this kind of pedagogical creation, the movie's ending is relatively weak. After being stabbed by the extremists, the young refugee did not ask anyone for help, stubbornly helped himself, and still shouldered the responsibility of taking care of his sister. The behavior of the Syrian refugee from the present makes a summary, and the whole film ends with the picture of the hero staring at the Finnish cityscape across the river with a smile.
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