The Man Without a Past
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Movie Reviews of The Man Without a Past
Movie Review: I was disappointed after reading such high praise
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a very quirky film, and I think it would have helped if I had understood Finland better than I do. I think there's a kind of political point to the movie that escaped me because I'm not aware of the situation in Finland that it appears to critique.
The characters are people on the margins, living a hand to mouth existence, where people are forced to live in shacks and abandoned shipping containers because there's no housing and they have little money. TO the extent that the authorities are there, they are indifferent or hostile to people who are basically good but victims of economic and social forces beyond their control.
The main character is assaulted by a group of thugs and loses his memory. He walks out of the hospital (?) and ends up in a desolate port area where the kindness of strangers helps him survive and start to build a marginal life for himself.
I found Finnish pop music not to my taste, and there's a lot of it in the movie -- be warned. Of course, you may like it. This is a very spare movie, very non-Hollywood. I thought it was kind of slow and perhaps too spare for my taste. But it's definitely the kind of movie you won 't immediately forget.
Movie Review: Lowlifes on the low key
Summary: 2 Stars
Plusses: interesting faces; quiet, caring interactions between characters; nice music when present; warm take on the Helsinki underbelly in summer.Minuses: predictable situation comedy, artificial plot with little symbolic saving grace, incompetently staged revenge scene, unsuccessful attempts at imitating David Lynch's style, persistent doubts that the film's losers could survive a Finnish winter.
Give it a try, considering that others like it, but don't be surprised if you're disappointed.
Movie Review: A little slow
Summary: 2 Stars
Man without a past is a slow movie, and I lost interest after a while.Movie Review: Kaurismaki's masterpiece
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie excels with unconventional attributes unseen in Hollywood movies these days - superb acting, true, honest characters without glamour, attention to minute detail in screenplay, sets and careful selection of music. This is what real movies are all about.