Zombie and the Ghost Train
1991 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 1,161 VOTES · DIR. Mika Kaurismäki
Overview
Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?
Dialogue Timeline — 368 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:13 ZOMBIE AND THE GHOST TRAIN
00:05:38 What the hell is this?
00:11:16 Well?
00:12:07 ...as if everything was eternal, but I felt the inevitability of loss.
00:18:06 They got me out for psychological reasons.
00:19:11 Oh. Well, speak up, I can take it.
00:20:43 I haven't heard of you for months. You could've sent a postcard.
00:21:42 Goddamnit Zombie.
00:24:12 Love doesn't die, it just leaves us. We're the ones that die.
00:25:05 But who would hire me?
00:28:09 Zombie, hey. Goddamnit, wake up!
00:29:30 Then the fifth time he visited and all should've been clear already...
00:30:40 ...the rudest thing I've heard anyone do.
00:31:34 Yeah, Jim is... was, he died as well.
00:38:29 What happened to him?
00:42:08 I took the first job offered...
00:44:14 Sure, why not.
00:48:33 You know, the guitarist's wife got suddenly hospitalized so the rehearsal's cancelled.
00:55:53 Was he drunk?
01:00:07 - Bye for now. - Bye bye.
01:04:36 - Why not? - It's not working out.
01:07:31 - "Hotel Inci", and five stars. - Hotel Inci?
01:17:52 Marjo took it pretty hard. The police interviewed her many times...