A ski jumper descends from winning 4 Olympic Gold Medals, to serving two years for stabbing a relative. Careers as a stripper and singer, plus five marriages, replete with allegations of dom... Read allA ski jumper descends from winning 4 Olympic Gold Medals, to serving two years for stabbing a relative. Careers as a stripper and singer, plus five marriages, replete with allegations of domestic violence are fictionalized sympathetically in this dramedy. Alleged exploitation/man... Read allA ski jumper descends from winning 4 Olympic Gold Medals, to serving two years for stabbing a relative. Careers as a stripper and singer, plus five marriages, replete with allegations of domestic violence are fictionalized sympathetically in this dramedy. Alleged exploitation/manipulation of Matti, due to his naivety and gullibility, along with deterioration of his sk... Read all
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- 3 nominations total
- Jari Puikkonen
- (as Andreas af Enehjelm)
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I know enough people like this in Finland, who think all the booze that appears within reach MUST be drunk, and also people who can be lead by their nose by their friends like they had no brains (while they do have, even if it at times seems defective).
It also has various scenes of drinking by fireside by a lake, hitchhiking, crummy local halls where bands perform, horrible clothes and suburbia that I (too) vividly remember from my own past... I feel like chewing my arm off but I cannot stop watching.
Compelling stuff indeed.
Matti, the movie about him, tries to sell his story to the viewer as he would be the victim in all of this. Which is of course total BS. A lot of the stupid things he's done and God forbid *is still doing*, have come from people daring him. For heaven's sake, HOW HARD IS IT TO JUST SAY "NO"?! And stupid things like jumping off a bridge, or something. Plus when you rarely see him doing an interview his eyes are wondering everywhere and he makes statements like you wouldn't believe.. he's like The Waterboy, but with half the IQ.
This is a naive film with some good performances, but even those can't hide the fact that this film's been made with the intention of ripping the ticket fare from the Finnish audience, who are there just to see the joke that this man is. Not the sensitive side, because with he's real actions this far gone, no-one's buying that he even has one.
** / *****
Did you know
- TriviaIn the documentary of the film it is revealed that Jasper Pääkkönen performed the bridge jump himself because there was not enough money to hire a stuntman.
- GoofsEppu Normaali's song Poliisi pamputtaa taas is heard in the movie. The credits list it as Poliisi pamputtaa, which is another song by Eppu Normaali.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Se on Matti - dokumentti elokuvan teosta (2006)
- SoundtracksBodya, sporttia, tsemppistä
Composed by Sakke Järvenpää
Lyrics by Mato Valtonen
Performed by Sleepy Sleepers
Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment (Finland) Oy
Under License from Manus
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- Matti
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- Budget
- €1,600,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $4,359,099
- Runtime2 hours 15 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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