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The Other Side of Hope Finnish film, the film mainly tells the story of a Syrian refugee who fled to Finland and a group of Finns.
In his hometown of Aleppo, Syria, his home was bombed into ruins. He fled to Europe with his sister, but was scattered. He wanted to find his sister's protagonist Khaled. The younger sister's man, Twixtron, and the three funny shop assistants in the store who were owed wages by the former boss; a regular customer from Iraq, Mazdak who pretended to be optimistic and helpful; The Finnish girl who let go of the deported Khalid; the inquisitor of the immigration center with no expression on his face; the three racists who always wear leather jackets with "LIBERATION ARMY FINLAND" printed on it, etc. These characters, together with singing, bar And so on, the movie is really wonderful.
What I want to talk about next is not the analysis of the movie characters, nor is it to discuss whether the movie represents the refugee problem well, but the stories weaved by the above characters. The stories are moving, funny, nervous and sad. There is also irony and dark humor mixed in, and these irony and dark humor plots are what I am more interested in.
Happy people are more likely to stay.
When Khalid asked Iraqi refugee Mazdak why he was so optimistic, he told the protagonist Khalid that "the saddened will be the first to be sent back", so he pretended to be happy, hoping to stay and pick up his family, and later Khalid Li De was repatriated, and Mazdak remained at the rescue station, which seemed to confirm Mazdak's "insight".
Refugees from the Middle East from different countries crossed the borders and came to Finland after a lot of hard work. They have already experienced the death of their relatives and friends in the war and the destruction of their homes. If they now have a smile on their faces, they can only Fake it.
Currently Aleppo is not that dangerous.
After many inquiries from the immigration center, Khalid was deported, on the grounds that there was no major conflict in the Aleppo area that put the city at risk, and considering his personal situation and residence situation, he did not meet the application and could no longer appeal. .
But Khalid said when he was questioned for the first time that all his family members died in the bomb attack, and only his sister was left to depend on each other. It broadcasted news of the bombing of a children's hospital in Aleppo, killing dozens of people, and the shortage of various materials in Aleppo due to the war.
It only costs 1,000 yuan to get a "real" certificate of birth at any age.
Khalid, who escaped with the help of the girl at the rescue station, didn't know the new owner of the hotel, Wickstrom, so he stayed in the hotel to work as a black worker, and by the way, with the help of the genius nephew of the doorman Karam Nils, he got the documents. Done.
The nephew only needs 1,000 yuan and 15 minutes to get the certificate. The method is to invade the National Registration Office, fill in the information directly, and then print the certificate. Later, in the plot, Khalid was successfully passed by the patrol police when he was checked for documents. I thought of Karam Niels' nephew who complained about the poor security of the National Registry, which was a fake. I felt that he had no sense of accomplishment in this matter.
You can use pickled herring to make sushi if you run out of salmon.
The business of the hotel is not good. The owner, Wickstrom, and the clerk discuss what is the most popular. The doorman, Karam Nils, wisely said that it is sushi. His nephew opened a sushi restaurant. Well, how many miracles are there? nephew.
The owner bought a bunch of Japanese cooking books and started to work, receiving a group of tourists who looked like East Asians (maybe Japanese, because they behaved relatively quietly). The salmon was gone and replaced with pickled herring. The pickled herring had a strong taste, and a pile of mustard was used to cover it. The result was predictable - no one was eating the food, and the clerks sent off the customers with a sad face.
What we Finnish liberators did is that you Jewish guy
Khalid repeatedly met three racists in leather jackets that said LIBERATION ARMY FINLAND. When Khalid met for the first time, they started fighting without a word of nonsense. Fortunately, they were beaten away by a few homeless people and they saved Khalid; The head man was alone with a knife and stabbed Khalid directly, and said, "I warned you, Jew."
Whether these three hated Jews or all immigrants is unknown, but after stabbing a Syrian refugee and saying "Jew" did make people laugh bitterly.
Baidu Encyclopedia: Our plot introduction is so casual and willful.
This irony outside of the film—that a film’s synopsis can be so different from its own plot.
The introduction of Baidu Encyclopedia is "A man with a mid-life crisis bought a restaurant. One day his employees picked up a stray dog from outside and hid it in the toilet to avoid inspection by the health department. Hide with the dog. Also inside was a Syrian man who had been a decent engineer at home, and after he was exiled to Finland, he was yelled at, kicked by officials and moved from one shelter to another. , a homeless man, with a dog, wounds and helplessness, returns to his wandering life empty-handed"
First of all, the boss is not a middle-aged man, but an old man; the protagonist Khalid is not taken from a shelter Moved to another shelter because he's only been to this one; he's not homeless, he's reunited with his sister, he's also working in a restaurant, and he's not empty-handed; of course, he doesn't have a dog (dog It's a stray dog raised in a restaurant), but at the end he was resting under the tree, and the dog came over to be close to him.
Of course, there are other interesting points in the film, such as the doorman being said to be not Finnish when he was checked; Khalid said that the stray dog adopted by the hotel "I taught her some Arabic and she liked Islam because she I think it's more interesting than Buddhism", etc. and many other interesting little clips.
It's amazing to make a film that focuses on refugees and at the same time speaks volumes about the problems of his country.
Irony and Dark Humor in 'The Other Side of Hope'
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