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Symbol: Christian charity

The geographical characteristics of the climatic conditions determine the humanities, sisu, friendly spirit.

Mythological system, marine nomadic culture, etc. Criticism and irony are major aspects of Nordic modernist cinema. Bring abstract concepts into audiovisual language.

It is not a simple manifestation of poverty, but a reflection of the underlying subjectivity.

Author films: philosophical, theological, artistic. Characteristics of Nordic director groups. Knowledge structure intervention and problem awareness.

Anxiety that spans from classical philosophy to new age.

Cook rice soup to save life, eat sushi and return home. The author recalls that, forced by life, he was enlightened into the film industry by Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. (Influenced, fixed camera position for the whole article)

to perform. Cut off the normal logical relationship, the language is abrupt, cut off the signifier and the signified. Absurd dialogue, fresh look and feel.

The combination of the small and the sublime. The poetry of container life.

A strong director is very direct in the arrangement of actors, creating a sense of visual detachment.

problem awareness

The extension of cinema: more than just images

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The Man Without a Past quotes

  • 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.

  • Anttila: Where are you going?

    M: Home.