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been spending a lot of time at the cinema lately. first I thought there was nothing that could match easy a as the best movie I’ve seen in five years (probably in the top five marathon list of high school films), but then I saw the finnish documentary miesten vuoro (steam of life). it’s 84 minutes of finnish men discussing (often extraordinarily sad) life experiences.
towards the end a man in his mid-forties tell the story about how one of his children, one in a pair of twins, dies. he tells about the panic, the urge to scream endlessly, the realization of the meaning in the statement “we are given the load we can carry”. all of it echoing my reaction to my twin leaving this life. needless to say, I cried like I haven’t in a very long time.
for reasons unknown, critics seems to have been giving miesten vuoro a “4/5” across the line. there’s nothing about this film that isn’t excellent. fyi I thought so before the conversation described above entered.
