Of Aki Kaurismäki
With Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen
" Hamlet puts business recounts the incredible adventures of a young vivacious temperament as a snail and warm-hearted as a refrigerator . [...] No wonder that Ophelia is going in and sobbing in the bathroom. But do not let yourself be enchanted by the beauty of this art: it is about money, life or death . "Words by Aki Kaurismäki drawn dall'imperdibile dialogue about cinema, life, vodka have made clear what the film is in substance, that is a modern and lucid interpretation of the play's most famous William Shakespeare, filtered through the distorting lens of the grotesque.
The theater of events moves from Denmark in Helsinki, and the famous castle of Elsinore, the central place of the tragedy, is replaced by Finnish industry, which produces plastic ducks. Even the characters that move in the story is treated as straniente: If Shakespeare's Ophelia against Hamlet had a love pure and boundless, Ophelia Kaurismäki is interested only man solely based on economic calculation. Hamlet himself, if you keep in mind the words of the director above, is anything but a young educated and refined intelligence: it is rather a stupid jerk and capricious.
Thus, in many ways while remaining faithful to the original text, the ability to delineate the distinctive features in the depths of the human being in relation to a particular historical period, Kaurismäki it differs clearly in form and style, managing to build a Portrait of a thin and not at all obvious vices (many) and virtues (few) of the "damned" capitalist bourgeoisie that was establishing itself in Finland in the eighties. These, in fact, the fundamental questions raised by the film according to the same author, "who killed the general manager? The shipyards of Hyvinkää will be abandoned in order to obtain a monopoly on global manufacturer of plastic ducks? And where is the cap of the driver? [...] Who will be the winner, who will pay the price of this underground classic drama series B in black and white? Nobody knows. "That the dilemma accompany your vision.
This week you can not miss Hamlet puts business , would be pure folly. You can find the number 599 to the video tape.
Marco