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M: What do I owe you?
Electrician: If you ever find me face down in the gutter, turn me around to my back.
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Nieminen: You've got worker hands. You must have used these hands; you don't look like a reader.
M: Thank you.
Nieminen: You're welcome.
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M: I take it you have space for rent?
Anttila: Does the seagull have wings? Does the wolf howl of his loneliness in the woods at night?
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[M is renting an abandoned shipping container]
M: When can I move in?
Anttila: As soon as I turn my back.
M: And the keys?
Anttila: You see a lock anywhere?
M: No.
Anttila: Don't go splitting hairs then, or I'll take the door, too.
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[M is cooking dinner]
Irma: Are you sure I can't help?
M: I think it's ruined already.
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M: I went to the moon yesterday.
Irma: I see. How was it?
M: Peaceful.
Irma: Meet anyone?
M: Not really; it was a Sunday.
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Anttila: But if you don't pay, I'll send my killer dog to bite your nose off.
M: It only causes trouble, shadows the way wherever I go.
Anttila: You couldn't smoke in the shower anymore.
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Anttila: Where are you going?
M: Home.
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Anttila: Tickets.
M: What do you mean?
Anttila: You haven't paid.
M: But I organized this.
Anttila: That's what you think.
M: Is that so?
Anttila: Yes.
M: Fancy that.
Anttila: That's outrageous!
M: It is, isn't it?
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Nieminen: Rather small potatoes.
M: The weather was bad. But they will make a soup.
Nieminen: When did you plan to make it?
M: Why so interested?
Nieminen: I have an onion. You need it for the soup.
M: I've got eight potatoes. I must save three for winter and at least two as seed potatoes. We farmers must think of the coming years, too. We only eat what is left over. There is not enough for three. I want to invite Irma to dinner.
Nieminen: So none for me?
M: Right.
Nieminen: You're selfish.
M: I am a realist. You city people are children of the moment.
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Unemployment Office Manager: Are you making fun of us? Surely you have a name?
M: Course I do. I was hit on the head, several times in fact. That's why I can't... remember everything.
Unemployment Office Manager: Why don't you ask your mother or your friends? Everyone around here has friends. - I've got one too.
M: But he doesn't know either.
Unemployment Office Manager: Did he hit his head too?
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Anttila: If you don't pay up I'll send my killer dog to bite your nose off.
M: It only causes trouble any way, shadows the way wherever I go.
Anttila: It's no more smoking in the shower for you. Bye.
The Man Without a Past Quotes
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Dustin 2022-03-19 09:01:07
I guess that the dog’s name Hannibal is not only the director’s little humor, but also a revenge for the Finnish film "City with Power Failure", which was selected by the "London Times" and "New York Post". Among them, it ranked second among the best crime movies in history, and the number one was "The Silent Lamb".
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Ludwig 2022-03-23 09:02:52
It is still the usual Aki-style cold and humorous video style. The title of the film is "A man without a past". When the film is nearing the end, in a black humorous way, the man finds his "past". But the past is no longer important to him, because he has the present. In Akey's world, the bottom-level narrative is not limited to self-rescue and others' rescue, but also to the mutual sarcasm, downfall, and discrimination and exclusion from the middle class and the social system. "God only gift those who go to heaven, but on earth, we have to help each other", cold and warm.
