#like it's poetic cinema but also I didn't EXPECT a tragedy. I didn't WANT a tragedy. LOKI IS ALONE AND IM FUCKING SAD

[charcubed]

me thinking about how romantic the (tragic) loki finale is

#this meme perfectly encapsulates my love-hate relationship with it right now #like it's poetic cinema but also I didn't EXPECT a tragedy. I didn't WANT a tragedy. LOKI IS ALONE AND IM FUCKING SAD #but like ?!?!? they're in love???? it's canon???? #loki #lokius

[homunculus-argument]

I keep watching these brutal dissection review videos of american remakes/adaptations of non-american source materials, and how and why they consistently suck the same way. Like you can't just take a film where the main character is explicitly a flawed, messed-up character who unwittingly makes grievous mistakes that ends in tragedy, and then decide to clean up all moral ambiguity that made the story good, and expect it to work. And I started thinking about how fucking hilarious it would be if finnish cinema made the same kind of thing with the same pattern.

Like let's take a source material where the protagonist is cool and achieves cool things. No, can't have that for a finnish audience, make the protagonist pathetic. No, more pathetic. A bit more. Close. Now let's make it explicitly clear that it's his own fault that his wife left him and his kids don't want to see him. What, the protagonist wasn't a divorced middle-aged man in the original? Let's slap that in there anyway, it's mandatory.

And achieving cool things? Not on my watch, unacceptable. This dude is pathetic, whatever the plot demands he must achieve, there's gotta be a way to make it explicitly clear that this undeserved praise landed on him out of pure luck and happenstance. He acknowledges it and derives no pleasure from the empty praise. Actually, he can't enjoy any fruits of his labour, if he even achieves it at all. Also, no music allowed, and make the colours washed out.

Does the hero protagonist of the original story die in some profound, poignant, significant and dramatic way? Of course he'll die here too, but let's not get all silly with granting the death any kind of poetic significance. He just dies, and his ex wife who didn't even like him arranges the funeral for him because he didn't have any friends and she felt embarrassed that nobody else feels obligated to.

Just another 90 minute finnish movie about a washed-up, pathetic loser who definitely gets drunk at some point, fails to achieve whatever he was trying to do, shits himself and dies, and also his name is now Jarmo for no particular reason.