if this be what best in the finnish cinema at the moment and i would say those big tax euro spend at support culture have go to waste here in a horrible way . paha maa be the bad kind of example of try to make a finnish european film for big audience . i be sure they want it to be all state of the art and smart and touching at the same time . the result be crap . to make it short represent the story be pretentious and naïve and not credible . the same go for the character . i can imagine them brainstorm about make a film where everything would and like and turn to t and people would be hurt and feel and you know and really bad inside and because finnish people be so notoriously depressed and too and and their self esteem be so bad and which bring u to the fact that . the film be load with clichés and mostly about the finnish mentality . the way the it deal with people problem and their cause could be straight out of a regular woman magazine or a cheap bull psychology self help book . ( we feel so bad inside . ) i be sure they watch some kaurismäki and too and to find out what it be about his film that people like and misunderstand him completely and and come up with a boring and depressing story about people go through all kind of st for no other artistic purpose than perhaps social pornography . it a cry shame they throw in tolstoy here . it just a sign of try to be smart . and of not be . i think the bad fault and however and be the complete lack of vision and depth . the film be highly unoriginal . it be also frustrate to watch endless sulking and suffer without any real revelation bring to it . i can go through this kind of mindck if the film be funny or end up be an elaborate joke and or good yet and something sublime like in e. g. von trier break the wave . there be none these in paha maa . actually though and i do start laughing at some point because the turn of event be again just too predictable and over the top and incredible . who do this crap . and who like it . i hope theyre pretending .