He ovat paenneet (2014)

He ovat paenneet: Directed by J.-P. Valkeapää. With Roosa Söderholm, Teppo Manner, Petteri Pennilä, Jari Pehkonen. Two teenage outcasts run away from a halfway house and embark on a rambling cross-country journey.

“I donu0026#39;t know what the intended target group for this movie was, but for what I gather it didnu0026#39;t really reach anyone. Demographically Iu0026#39;m probably not in the target group, but Iu0026#39;m a movie fan and appreciate a good movie no matter what the targeted audience is. This was not a good movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI was hoping to see a real original art house movie actually, but thatu0026#39;s not really what it is. The poster and trailer showed some rather surrealistic images with interesting choice of music and nice cinematography, but for some reason the movie itself does not really look that good. The camera work and direction is not very interesting after all. There is one scene in the middle where things get interesting and quite original, but the rest of the movie is just lackluster youth drama. OK, the ending is quite extreme, but not in a good way in my opinion and definitely not enough to redeem the otherwise very mediocre movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe acting is not really very good. Itu0026#39;s quite difficult to pinpoint whatu0026#39;s wrong with it, but itu0026#39;s the average theatrical Finnish over-acting for the most part. The girl has the looks for a proper movie femme, but the guy is quite boring. Neither is someone youu0026#39;d actually really care for, as a movie character.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe other reviewer mentioned the symbolism. For some reason I didnu0026#39;t even think there was any symbolism, maybe because I was hung up on the mediocre artistic delivery so that I wasnu0026#39;t even paying attention to the message of the movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNot recommended, for anyone really.”