Hustlers
2010 · 104 MIN · IMDB 5.5 · 1,005 VOTES · DIR. Lauri Nurkse
Overview
The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,065 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:06 Let me tell you what people are like. An example.
00:04:39 What's in Turku? - Miss Finland runners-up.
00:08:07 Always.
00:10:56 Okay. Grab an arm and a leg then.
00:13:38 Don't point at me. I don't want attention.
00:16:17 Okay, I'm outside. Can you see? I'm naked.
00:20:34 Bye!
00:24:20 Oh, you're going there. Okay.
00:27:23 Okay. But it doesn't mean that something has to change.
00:30:48 Don't take the whole thing.
00:35:27 How would you describe yourself? - I'm a night person.
00:38:38 What's up?
00:42:29 Make him...
00:46:23 I got down on my knees and the whole works. - Why?
00:50:06 Let it go. Assa?
00:54:47 As much as I like you, I can't be with you.
00:58:09 Honey bunny, don't be mad at me.
01:01:02 No, I don't want to!
01:04:55 Okay. Let's calm down.
01:10:35 How can I be so stupid?
01:13:26 We're trying to have fun with a taste of blood in our mouths?
01:17:46 People have definitely noticed a group called Flash Patrol
01:22:12 I lost my job. - I'll talk to your boss.
01:26:01 Yeah, yeah. - Let's go.