Ariel Quotes

  • Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: [Taisto and Irmeli have just been on their first date] It's dark. Want to come up?

    Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: If its not too much trouble.

    Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: Coffee's all I've got.

    Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: Coffee's fine.

    Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: I'm divorced.

    Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: Don't let it get you down.

    Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: I've got a kid too.

    Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: Gives us a head start raising a family.

    Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: Are you always so confident?

    Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: No, this is my first time.

    Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: Just don't make any noise.

    Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: No one will even suspect.

    Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: Really? I hope I won't regret this.

  • Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: [Taisto is discussing with his cell-mate] Listen, Mikkonen!

    Mikkonen: I don't think I have a choice.

    Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: I'm thinking of getting out of here soon.

    Mikkonen: I see. How?

    Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: Don't know yet. Somehow.

    Mikkonen: Getting out is no big deal. Lots of guys have done it. But they were brought back and ended up doing twice as much time as before. They stayed around here, or went to Sweden, or headed to the nearest bar and got loaded. You've got to get further away, Italy or Africa, at least for awhile.

    Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: I've been thinking about Mexico or Brazil.

    Mikkonen: Even better. But that costs money. You think I haven't planned it all a hundred times? First, you need three grand for a passport, then ten more for the seamen to hide you in the cargo and to let you off somewhere around the equator. But it's dangerous. If the cargo starts to shift in a storm - Lots of guys have died that way. You gotta go underground until you get a passport and find the right ship.

    Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: How many years do you have left?

    Mikkonen: Eight, for manslaughter. But I'm innocent.

    Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: Are you?

    Mikkonen: At least in God's eyes. In a way, I did kill him, but the truth is I didn't. The result was the same: He died and I was sent here. All right, let's go, then. 37 now. Eight more would make me about 43, more or less. But I won't last three hours outside without killing somebody.

  • Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: Mikkonen!

    Mikkonen: Take the money and run.

  • Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: Was your husband a drunk?

    Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: No, he found someone else.

    Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: Where?

    Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: I don't remember. The whole thing was a mistake. I hated him from the start.

    Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: That's unusual.

    Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: That's what you think.

  • Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: Will you disappear in the morning?

    Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: No, we'll be together forever.

    Irmeli Katariina Pihlaja: Good. I start work early. Good night.

  • Radio: [singing] I lost my dreams and everything in life, I lost my dreams because of you, Now I'm lost in my dreams, I hide from the world, I look out the window and watch the rain come down...

  • Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: What are those?

    Mikkonen: Sedatives.

    Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: What for?

    Mikkonen: Ask me again in a year.

  • Taisto Olavi Kasurinen: What do you do normally?

    Mikkonen: What do you mean by "normally"?

  • Radio: [singing] I hear bitter laughter echoing in the darkness, Tonight I won't accuse you of anything, Because for you I would walk through a desert haze, On this autumn night my mind is blue, Tonight no stars shine to comfort me, I guess it's useless to hope for anything, But to drown myself in the night...

  • Mikkonen: The ship's called Ariel. Tonight at 10:00 off Hernesaari Point.

  • Mikkonen: Bury my heart at the dump.

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Ariel

Director: Aki Kaurismäki

Language: Finnish Release date: October 1990