I can't get enough of this film, no matter how often I've seen it.Lil cease the wonderful world of cease a leo zipline. Deep sentiment but every inch of it sincere.
Despite the idiosyncratic set-up and the strange unreal dialog, it's incredible how very real all these characters feel. I just love the music in this film! Time and place hover between Helsinki in the '30s and the present. Most of the humor doesn't come from any written gags or jokes but springs from the absurdity of the situations, all in Kaurismäki's typical deadpan-comedy style, complete with nods top '50s B-movies, rock'n'roll ("rhytm music", as it's called by M), fairytale romance and an incomparable soundtrack, featuring British beat combo, The Renegades. He once said: "I make films for the unemployed, but since they don't have money to buy cinema tickets I generally have no audience." Of course, Kaurismäki has a huge audience by now, but no matter how simple and accessible the story in the film might look, he still manages to blend romance, quirky comedy and social commentary, seemingly effortless into the film's narrative. Kaurismäki usually champions the outcasts of society and here it's no different.
Of course, his past does catch up with him, but it only works to point out what's really important in his future life. Without knowing a single person (and without a single person knowing him), he must try to survive, but he soon acquires a melancholy dog named Hannibal and falls in love with Irma, a lonely salvation army soup kitchen volunteer. Now a penniless amnesiac, he has to build his life from scratch. In the hospital, he is pronounced dead by the doctors, but by some miracle he springs back to life but with no memory whatsoever of his past or his identity. After M, as he is referred to for the rest of the film, dozes off on a park bench, he is awoken by a trio of thugs who brutally beat him up, steal his money and toss his wallet and identity papers into the trash bin. This second installment in Aki Kaurismaki's projected "Finland Trilogy" is a heart-warming fable about a man (Markku Peltola) who loses everything, including his identity. MAN WITHOUT A PAST, THE (Aki Kaurismäki - Finland/France/Germany 2002).
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