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One finds love, another hangs himself, a third gets shot by a woman, the fourth dies on the soda-stained floor of a fast-food joint, all of them ultimately meeting their inevitable fate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki&#8217;s genre hybrid is a kind of classic in spite of itself: beginning with the last supper and morphing into a portrait of a generational class struggle, a teen film pushing middle age, a communist fanifesto, a desperate parody, a delusional comedy, a basement-dweller escape fantasy with Western sensibilities, a banana-peel film noir, a road movie trundling along in comfy slippers and a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blues Brothers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> scored by Finnish rock band Popeda. The cornered rats of the proletariat crawl towards their bourgeois ideal, dodging hunger and death colliding with the poetry of Jacques Pr\u00e9vert. Kaurism\u00e4ki&#8217;s lofty, twenty-fold self-portrait cheapo evolves into a battle cry, stifled in the throat before its time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Lauri Timonen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roughly fifteen Franks and one Pekka (Markku Toikka) want to escape their back-breaking living conditions in the working-class neighbourhood of Kallio and based on their parents&#8217; stories decide to head towards the fabled district of Eira.","protected":false},"featured_media":28769,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28771","movies","type-movies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","filters-35-mm-en","filters-english-dialogue","filters-puhuttu-tai-tekstitetty-suomeksi-en","filters-sodis-40-vuotta-elokuva-130-vuotta-en","filters-special-screenings"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Calamari Union &#8212; 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