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[heartlandians]

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[heartlandtfln]

“(303): Woke up on the couch with one cowboy boot on and a hat over my crotch. God bless texas.“

[nolansnose]

No thoughts, just Flip(hair) Myers

[itstayves]

Sikura's first goal and Gustafsson is very happy about it!

Redwings @ Blackhawks | 6th January 2020

[welcometoheartland]

Happy 200th episode, Heartland!

Part 3: Seasons 8-10

Go to: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4

[confessions-heartland]

“Heartland has been introducing way too many characters and then dropping them. Make a cohesive story line with these characters and then write them out properly. This is something Heartland has always had a problem with. Chase, Ahmed, Jeremy, Sam, Clay, Ashley, Soraya, Nicole, Mrs. Bell, Ben, Jen (the first one), Nick, Badger, Tara, Victor, Marnie, Kerry-Anne, Shane, Miranda ... I hope they're all enjoying hanging out in the same worm hole. “

[ambermarshalldaily]

Countdown to Season 11

↳ 10.08 - Here and Now

I want to thank them - and you all know who you are - for making these days, the here and now, the true glory days of my life.

[uhrikanit]

Intohimon vallassa (Passion) (1947)

Time for the third Teuvo Tulio movie on my list (or the fifth if I were to count the ones he starred in). The movie is apparently based on real events in Askola county or that's what's stated at the beginning of the film. The movie starts almost like a horror movie, at a graveyard with a hunchback digging a grave and then being spooked by a skull. A young couple arrive to the graveyard and the hunchback starts laughing like a maniac. The couple has come to visit the young man's late parents. An older man approaches the couple and tells them a story of a woman who taught him "to keep silent". And that is the story of the dead parents, Aino Ylitalo (Regina Linnanheimo) and Paavo Iso-Ylitalo (Eric Gustafsson).

In the beginning Regina Linnanheimo is innocently frolicking with her german shepherd, much like in Rakkauden Risti. The loggers are arriving, surfing on their logs along the rapids and they sing a jolly song while people gather on the rocks to watch. One of the loggers, Olavi (Kullervo Kalske), catches Aino's eye. They have an intense romantic staring match and later that night Olavi is trying to get inside Aino's bedroom. She flirts with him but refuses to let him in so Olavi uses his puukko knife to pry open the latch. Aino tells him he can't come in. Despite that he enters and Aino is forced to sic her dog on him to get him out. Kind of a big red flag right there if that's what it takes. But this seems to be totally okay with Aino. So yay I guess.

The real tragedy begins when Aino wants to marry Olavi, but her father won't  let her marry below her social status. Plus she's also promised to another man who comes from a well established family. Aino and Olavi don't accept it, but there is nothing they can do. Aino is determined to take care of her family's big house, according to her father's wishes. So before Aino is married, she and Olavi end up having sex in a barn, a traditional place for intercourse in Finnish cinema.

From there on things start to go horribly wrong for Aino. Her new husband Paavo is an alcoholic and a louse who has a bottle of spirits hidden under a log pile. Their marriage is just all around terrible. He spends her family's money on booze, drunkenly drives a horse carriage, drives the horse on the log pile, hits Aino with a whip and tries to drunkenly rape her etc.

Aino tries to look after her family's house and protect the family's good name, but her husband is making her miserable. She grows serious and joyless and won't accept any help from Olavi who leaves the logging business and stays in town as a blacksmith to be near her. Probably the only thing keeping her going is her young son and the knowledge that he'll take care of the family house when she's gone.

Regina Linnanheimo is once again wonderful. Aino starts off innocent and ends up jaded, married to a violent drunkard but while she does lose her health and happiness, she won't take the abuse lying down. Paavo feels very much threatened by her strength of character and grows to hate her for it. she can be really frightening when she's raging at her drunken husband, yelling at the top of her lungs stuff like "And now this loutish behavior must end!" She's mad as hell but never completely loses her control, no matter what. Every word she utters feels very deliberate and commanding.

Much like in Levoton Veri, the movie has some horror elements in it. The graveyard scene from the beginning reminds me of Universal monster movies, especially Frankenstein and it's sequels. I wonder if that's where the inspiration for the hunchback character came from. But I can't say for sure if Tulio ever saw it. As far as I know, Frankenstein has never had a theater run in Finland. There wasn't much appreciation for horror movies in Finland back then.

Intohimon vallassa is not quite as brilliant as Levoton Veri, but nevertheless another good one by Tulio.