Nazis from the dark side of the moon

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.

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.

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.

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

At last a good vampire film...

... all I have to do is wait till May.

Eating animals

Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Eating Animals can raise many different opinions depending the reader's own attidute. My brother, who's devoted carnivore felt irritation mixed with amusement after he saw the title of the book. My sister instead (who mostly shares my opinions) was slightly interested in it and would have probably stolen it from my bookshelf, if I hadn't been careful.
   For my point of view Eating Animals was a good book, which supported my intent to become a vegetarian. Like the title tells, the novel is about eating animals. The main aspect is in faults of factory farming. Sometimes descriptions about breeding and slaugthering animals made me feel sick and got my to think next time when I eat meat.
   Althought Foer himself is vegan, he say he can understand those who eat meat. In the novel this is same time a credit and frailty: on the one hand Foer gives reader the freedom of choice, but on the other hand the book seems sometimes to drift in abstract level without making a clear point. But I think Foer's point was only to make people think about what they're eating.

Mark: 7+

Kony 2012

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