TV series

Eight Deadly Shots

1972 · 1 season

A slow, suffocating descent into poverty and alcoholism, where everyday pressures accumulate into quiet dread and inevitable violence.

Overview: Small-farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. The movie is a flashback examining the events that finally lead to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks deeper into poverty, gets into trouble with police and tax officials, all while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a real story.
How it feels: Bleak, melancholic, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Addiction, politics, family, isolation
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: addiction
politics
family
isolation
trauma
Places: countryside
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
true story
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild