Brilliant-cut collage on the pop-cultural influences of the "Matrix". Copy of a Copy of a Copy.

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Image: "Ariel" (1988)

In the films of Aki Kaurismäki is little discussed. Almost everything that has to tell us the Finn, is translated into an extraordinarily straightforward visual language, so authentic and realistic images of a seedy milieu designs that you can put it under a certain anti-aesthetic. Especially in the films of his "proletarian trilogy," the tragic individual stories of social outsiders theme of the working class, this style will unfold deliberately refused a tremendous impact. Against the background of a prevailing industrialization of Finland and especially Helsinki Kaurismäki tells in his films "Shadows in Paradise," "Ariel" and "The Girl of the match factory," the build but do not build another, but such thematic and directorial brotherhood is that it could result in a common episodic film, the drab lives of three people from the working class, who have leased the pitch for themselves: the lone garbage truck driver Nikander, who falls in love with the unemployed supermarket cashier Ilona, ​​who is also unemployed Taisto that goes to Helsinki, a new life and start living in a dysfunctional family, Iris, who is in search of true love for the desperate killer, they all find a way out of social condemnation, they are all longing for a new life, for love and affection. The world that Kaurismäki has designed for real but indeterminate models is invariably pessimistic: only the crossing and breaking moral and legal limits, the proverbial flight of an industrialized, non-communication hell into a "free", a seemingly happy life. If Kaurismäki ie poverty, speaks of underclass and loneliness, he linked metaphorically these terms closely with the progressive industrialization of the economy: the soulless machines which of his characters, operated and controlled, and by Kaurismäki are deliberately brought into the picture, that work they perform automatisms, as well as Nikander, Taisto and Iris, who also work just to live instead. A worrying assimilation. The helplessness and despair of this apostate people also expressed their desire not available from the conversation: words are hard, they hurt and offend, they create trouble. Aki Kaurismäki directed all of this on such a laconic, such a cynical, but veritable way that one leaning over the course of life can only laugh at best. (9)

Unsuspecting Internet surfing and suddenly made a bizarre discovery: David Cronenberg making a film with "Twilight" Robert Pattinson favorite. Probably no longer a novelty anymore, but I was just carved's socks off. Thematically, too, seems to "Cosmopolis" is the name of the movie, not a typical Cronenberg to be. I'm curious. Is about the movie at IMDb .

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