MOVIE REVIEW: Gruesome guffaws in Nazi-smashing Finnish action-comedy, Sisu.
It's a little difficult to say that there's a major flaw with super-violent, super-fun, Nazi-slaying action-comedy, but when it's something that the filmmakers make such a big deal about, it seems essential to address the error."Sisu," as one character explains to a truckful of terrorized and very, very,definitely doomed Nazis, is a Finnish word that represents an untranslatable concept that relates to grim determination to complete a task.
Actually, it's very easy to translate: bloody-mindedness. Aatami Korpi is extremely bloody-minded. You have to be bloody-minded to look for gold in the swampy, remote parts of Lapland. You have to be especially bloody-minded to dig that gold out of the muck and mire, then transport it on horseback past retreating Wehrmacht and SS soldiers, then kill those same Wehrmacht and SS when they try to steal said gold.
Writer/director Jalmari Helander reunites with Tommila, who starred in his equally fun and creative Christmas classic, for a side- and skull-splitting romp at a very particular moment in Finnish history. The Scandinavian nation has, for most external observers, an awkward history when it comes to World War II, being allied with Nazi Germany for much of its duration as a way to fight off Soviet invasion .
And Tommila is a great relentless killer, carrying himself with the grim determination of a man who has survived in the grim but gorgeous backcountry of Lapland. Moreover, he has a darker backstory, one that current cinematic instincts will leap on foris just tapping into the same revenge-fueled exploitation traditions as Baba Yaga himself.
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