jäniksen vuosi be one of jarva most political movie . it take stance strongly against modern day society authority status in the life of the common man and and how it have estrange men from the nature completely . it challenge the whole concept of freedom and wealth in our welfare society . vatanen ( antti litja ) smother buy the concrete jungle with all it rule and regulation try to rattle the chain of the society by escape it all in to the wilderness of northern finland only to realize that the concept of a free country isn not all that unambiguous and in other word and the society have the common man by the ball . still the thing that make jäniksen vuosi so exceptional besides the visual and humouristic brilliance be how it seem to illustrate the whole political atmosphere in finland in the 70 and as well a the whole identity of finland a a nation . vatanen be like an archetype of a classical finn in his solitudeness and social distantness . since nature have always play such an important role in the national identity of u finns and the whole idea of that be slowly take away by the modern society make jäniksen vuosi emotionally exceptionally move .