The Man with Two Faces

“It is a synthesis of the thematic focal points of the previous shorts: the distorted relationship between man and nature, the two-faced nature of man. The film begins with a text about how Lapland’s wilderness is disappearing and how ‘the ruler of the wilderness is rootless today’. The world of this film is contradictory and divided: nature and man meet, their sounds collide, and finally nature is exploited and destroyed. The destruction is shown as both a tragedy and a farce, as man is both the villain and the victim, the monster of nature and the jester of nature.” Sakari Toiviainen