Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland
2010 · 84 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 3,728 VOTES · DIR. Joonas Neuvonen
Overview
Reindeerspotting is a documentary film of a group of young guys living in Rovaniemi, Arctic Circle, dabbling in petty crime and hard drugs. One of them, Jani, has lost five years of his life and two fingers to his debotators. He wants to leave Lapland and his old life behind. Robbing a supermarket is a start for his getaway. A few years back a documentarist, Joonas Neuvonen, was a young men living on social welfare, using drugs on daily basis. He started to film his friends and their life. This is the story of Jani.
Dialogue Timeline — 682 lines
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00:01:30 I was living in Rovaniemi without a job I lived on social welfare and used drugs almost daily
00:05:45 Take it. Try it. (Hurtsi:) I don't want to.
00:08:35 I was thinking if I would have bought half a S from you.
00:13:20 He plans to move away from Rovaniemi
00:16:16 Now it is like starting.. the partying
00:19:50 Too much, just a bit too much I calm down with pills
00:22:25 I might have said in a fit of anger -
00:24:44 Where is Joni? - At Vilsu's place.
00:27:41 I just said that: "Nothing to add nor to nothing to tell."
00:30:01 Yes, but there is the chalk flavor in Tenox which I do not like that much.
00:33:13 They do not know anything about that.
00:36:00 What game is that? - Night Fire, James Bond.
00:39:20 During the spring the use of drugs is increasing Jani's debt. He tries to get some money.
00:42:45 Everyone owes me money.
00:45:42 I am driving, fuck, as usual.
00:48:33 (Joonas:) What were you afraid before?
00:52:39 (Jani:) Not like I have anything in Rovaniemi any longer.
00:55:55 Then loose a bit. Then
00:59:46 That thought I would like to remove.
01:04:51 Actually those Subus could have been dropped also.
01:08:40 Or the abuse of Subutex. Let's put it this way.
01:11:44 I haven't just been able to call you.
01:14:22 The way, how these fingers went, is a different matter.
01:19:43 And not, fuck, fear and run away.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed682
Dialogue density8.1 lines / min
First line00:01:30
Final line01:19:43
Production Record
DirectorJoonas Neuvonen
LanguageFI
IMDb votes3,728