The documentary “Amortonta menoa – songs of nursing care” exhibits the kingdom of care for the elderly in Finland

When watching the documentary ‘Amortonta menoa’, you experience the identical powerlessness because the carers, household and aged people in the film.

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The story was published for the primary time on November 3, 2022 at 12:52 p.M.

In Finnish There’s plenty wrong with elderly care, and it’s private Merciless going – songs of care paintings – properly defined inside the tune film (2022).

“Hell no, then we’re all idiots, if this is amusement, the old guy talks about a robotic coming to make friends.”

In the start, the nurse meets the elderly remotely throughout the lunch hour thru a computer video name. There are technical issues and there's no sound. As a spectator, I would really like to shout: “Stop now, assist, stop! You can’t treat the vulnerable like this!”

This is existence inside the welfare country, Finland.

Nurses aren’t doing properly either. Anyone can say some thing they need to their face. One has had to watch by using the side whilst the medicines are administered incorrectly. Empathy is lacking.

“After all, this can cause demise through suffocation”, the physician once loudly states within the patient’s hearing.

Susanna Helken and Markku Heikkinen the documentary he is making, so as to be renewed from November, has an interesting structure that utilizes music. In the heritage, a chorus of exhausted nurses sings Anna-Mari Kähärän I wrote absolutely about the dark aspect of nursing: “We have a lack of stamina!”

Patients have too little time, too few sources. As if nobody cares, best the loved ones – if the aged character takes place to be lucky sufficient to have them. In the documentary, we meet loved ones who say they are worried about the situation of take care of the aged.

“The most wonderful instances in lifestyles are the ones when the complete family is collectively. You don’t remember the fact that until you’re left by myself,” says the pensioner who misplaced his wife.

At the equal time, the digicam zooms in on the couple’s wedding ceremony image. To the golden teens. It feels shifting.

 

Director Susanna Helke gained the primary prize inside the domestic competition for films over 30 minutes in March 2022 with the movie Armotonta menoa. Picture: Timo Marttila

Private actors have come dashing into the healthcare industry, and that has positioned suitable care at danger. Elderly care has end up a commercial enterprise, and business usually involves the pursuit of earnings.

In the municipality of Kaavi, humans are speechless whilst the municipality’s care domestic is outsourced to a private organization.

“When humans make investments their cash, they count on a result,” says the local resident.

The speeches are beautiful, but there hasn’t been enough money for the aged.

However, things can be made to appearance splendid on paper. Those who need to be cared for are people who need to be cared for.

In the multi-faceted documentary, we go to a care domestic to satisfy the elderly, interview employees and attend a municipal council assembly and a non-public domestic. The nurses’ choir tune and the choir’s serious expressions will remain in the reminiscence for a long time.

This movie is modern-day day activism at its finest, however is anybody listening?

When looking the documentary, you sense the same powerlessness as the carers, family and aged human beings inside the movie.

Merciless going – songs of worrying paintings, Fri nine.6. TV1 at 21:05.

 Alison (Mary Ure) comforts the indignant young guy (Richard Burton) in Young Fury Picture: Woodfall Film Productions / Zuma / MVPhotos

The movie star of his time shines in a breathtakingly fiery lead role

The Welsh lion Richard Burton had already grow to be a theater and film celebrity for ten years, whilst he got to interpret the principle position within the film model of the British “indignant younger men” fundamental play Nuori viha (Look Back in Anger).

There has been lots of complaint that Burton was already 33 inside the role of 25-12 months-antique Jimmy Porter within the play. It’s absolutely questionable whether or not we will communicate approximately the youngsters generation movie of the time, whilst the well-known creator John Osborne and the debut director Tony Richardson had been also almost thirty.

In any case, Burton is a acquainted fireplace and stick inside the movie. He performs Jimmy, who has been married for two years to the depressed Alison (the director’s spouse Mary Ure) and insults her constantly – with an insolence that makes you gasp.

On Saturday evenings, Jimmy performs the trumpet at a children jazz club, however this aspect is left fallow within the movie after the outlet episode.

Jimmy’s marketplace trader buddy Cliff (Gary Raymond) finds the environment of the condo apartment in some way tolerable. The caught scenario is set in movement no longer best through Alison’s being pregnant but also with the aid of her actress pal Helena (Claire Bloom), who actions into the room.

Bloom, the memorable ballet dancer from Charles Chaplin’s Parrasvaloje (1952), has been given a function that would work in a play, however in this more sensible film unavoidably brings with it a romance twist that seems too unexpected, as a minimum in this short treatment.

Young anger is quality to peer at the display after a 47-yr hiatus, despite the fact that this masterpiece of English “kitchen sink realism” has elderly.

In the movie variation, the depiction of sophistication relations in Britain, which has recovered from the warfare, has been obscured from the play. The rebellious Jimmy played by using Burton is quite maddened right here and there, even supposing a few demonstrative arguments are thrown. (96)

Young Anger (1958), Fri 9.6. Theme & Fem at 21:00, Drama ★★★

Timo Malmi

Correction three.7. Four:forty four p.M.: Fixed incorrect caption. The photograph isn't Claire Bloom, who plays Helena, however Mary Ure, who plays Alison.