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| The Nazis' moon forth |
Yes, that's right. It's the topic of the most expensive Finnish film ever,
Iron Sky. I don't got a clue, who invented the idea, but the main plot is that Nazis escaped to the dark side of the moon in 1945, and they've been waiting there since. And now they're ready to occupy the earth.
Visually
Iron Sky is moderate. It's clear that if the film would have been founded by big Hollywood money, there would have been bigger props (for instans in the UN), but there is still some pretty cool structures, like the Nazis' forth in the moon.
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| Hindu swastika |
What comes to the story, it's a bit thin. The hole film is basically built on jokes. Some of them, like Vivian Wagner's, the aide of President of the USA, floods of curses are too much, but there's also some good ones.
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| Flag of the Finnish airforce before WWII |
The film uses many clichés of the scifi films and many references to Nazi culture. Wagner is a important part of the soundtrack and Charlie Chaplin's
The Great Dictator get its share. And I don't know if this have been taught in other countries, but in Finland history teachers make clear swastika was originally an Asian symbol for auspiciousness and so the symbol of the Finnish airforce have nothing to do with Nazis, and the filmmaker are used this small piece of information in the one of their UN jokes. There's also some references to the politics. For instans President of the USA looks amazingly like Sarah Palin.
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| On the left Sarah Palin, on the right President of Iron Sky |
Iron Sky is a decent movie for those nights when you doesn't care about complicated stories or artistic visual plays. It's not a memorable one, but if you're interested in Finnish films, this is the easiest one to start.
Mark: 7
