1972 · drama · crime
Eight Deadly Shots
Directed by Mikko Niskanen2h 25m1972
Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story.
Our read: Eight Deadly Shots (1972) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme drama / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
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