Missä kuljimme kerran

I’m always quite looking forward to Finnish movies. Their films are special, as is the whole nation. This film also appealed to me all the more because I thought I would learn more about their generally quite turbulent past. The film actually explained to me that between the two world wars, the Finns were fed up with communists and Russians, so part of the population clung to the fascists. If nothing else, I would give the Finns the Nobel Prize for choosing the right political ideology for their nation. They really couldn’t have chosen better. But to these interesting political intrigues, the creators added some awkward love story, which I really didn’t enjoy. Overall, the story was weird, and I had a problem to finish the whole two-hour-long movie. But I was happy with the Finnish language, which sometimes switched into Swedish. If it was due to historical development, then the creators incorporated it quite nicely. But that’s probably the only significant positive to the whole film. (04.12.2012)