{"id":148881,"date":"2023-04-28T20:56:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T15:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/sisu-2022-opinion-a-festival-of-violence-and-fun-in-which-the-finnish-cousin-of-john-wick-and-john-rambo-destroys-nazis-with-cartoon-logic\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T20:56:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T15:26:31","slug":"sisu-2022-opinion-a-festival-of-violence-and-fun-in-which-the-finnish-cousin-of-john-wick-and-john-rambo-destroys-nazis-with-cartoon-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/sisu-2022-opinion-a-festival-of-violence-and-fun-in-which-the-finnish-cousin-of-john-wick-and-john-rambo-destroys-nazis-with-cartoon-logic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisu (2022) opinion: a festival of violence and fun in which the Finnish cousin of John Wick and John Rambo destroys Nazis with cartoon logic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The great winner of the last Sitges Festival was ‘Sisu’, the confirmation of the idyll of this contest with the Finnish Jalmari Helander<\/strong>because in 2010 he also won the award for best film thanks to his first film ‘Rare Exports: A Hooligan Christmas Carol’<\/strong>. What is not very clear to me is that many people already remember the triumph of ‘Sisu’, since its arrival in Spanish cinemas will finally take place this Friday, April 28, also coinciding with its release in theaters in the United States.<\/p>\n

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One of the aspects that has stood out the most about ‘Sisu’ is its brutality<\/strong>, to the point that the idea that we are facing a historical savagery can remain. That is where small disappointments can come, since the sad tendency to sell that everything is horrible or wonderful seems to leave us without any kind of intermediate point. And it is that ‘Sisu’ does stand out quite a bit for the better, but let’s not overdo it either.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It soon becomes clear that Helander makes use of all kinds of ingredients in ‘Sisu’, from war movies to weird westerns and action thrillers, including a hero who at times makes you think of john rambo<\/strong> but in others in John Wick, sometimes applying a drawn logic and with a generous use of gore.<\/p>\n

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That mixture could have turned out fatal<\/strong>, but one of the great merits of the film is to make it stick and that its excesses serve as a basis to always go further. All this always betting on a simple story in which the greed for the gold that the protagonist has found becomes the main narrative engine. From there, Helander chooses to divide ‘Sisu’ into several episodes in order to differentiate what he wants to achieve in each of the set pieces with which he shapes a film that barely reaches 90 minutes of footage.<\/p>\n

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However, Helander does not want ‘Sisu’ to be a mere succession of action scenes with a weak link between them. For this reason, the fact of placing it during the final stage of the World War II<\/strong> and coinciding with the departure of the Nazis from Finland, it is key at all levels. This is the only way to understand both the reduced presence of German soldiers and the current situation of its protagonist, a force of nature that already holds the status of legend among the local population.<\/p>\n

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