Movie

Eight Deadly Shots

1972 · 145 min

A slow, suffocating descent into despair, watching a man's life unravel with grim inevitability and quiet, crushing realism.

Overview: Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story.
How it feels: Bleak, melancholic, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Politics, survival, isolation, addiction
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: politics
survival
isolation
addiction
family
Places: countryside
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild