and this movie adds another proof on my list that the people from Finland really are a special kind. If you think only the inhabitants of Akiland communicate "in that certain manner", think again. Someone praised The Outfit (with R. Duvall) for its plainspokenness. Clearly they never watched a movie from Sibelius country, nor met and spoken to, pardon me, tried to speak to a real Finnish person. The clarity! Even today, as I phoned with Platta for news about the Scandinavian Music Group, I really had to switch tracks in me head and force me tongue to try to speak crystal, but not telegraph. With this comes a simple acknowledgement of life as it is, which is also displayed by this story of Cyclomania. Be it love or death or just trying to fulfil one goal, the Finns know what it means "to give it their best shot" (hey, I come from a country where grown men worshipped a Finn, called Jari Litmanen...)
In the Netherlands we would never be able to pull this off -(watch it, possible spoiler ahead)-, anyone working so hard that even a fatal warning is put aside, most directors/actors would choke on it here, in my land where the "maaiveld" and "poldermodel" rule.
One last thing: Elena Leeve is of an exceptional beauty for Suomalainen standards...
Seen: Monday 22nd September 2003 At: ZDF As: Fahrradfieber (subtitled though)
In the Netherlands we would never be able to pull this off -(watch it, possible spoiler ahead)-, anyone working so hard that even a fatal warning is put aside, most directors/actors would choke on it here, in my land where the "maaiveld" and "poldermodel" rule.
One last thing: Elena Leeve is of an exceptional beauty for Suomalainen standards...
Seen: Monday 22nd September 2003 At: ZDF As: Fahrradfieber (subtitled though)