Just Screenshots: 2013-01-20

Miss Blue Jeans (2012 Finland)

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Miss Farkku-Suomi

Punk and new wave rock´n roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak

small town Oulu where increasingly odd-looking youths began to appear in

the street with a message. Their rebellion speaks to Välde. Välde dreams

of joining a rock band and becoming famous. He wants to get drunk for the

first time, and to win the love of Pike, the most beautiful girl in the

class. When Pike wins the Miss Blue Jeans contest organised by the country´s

leading (and only) pop music magazine Suosikki and takes as her boyfriend

the bourgeois Henri Hakala, Välde puts all his eggs in one basket. He

abandons his former self and begins purposefully constructing a new persona

for himself. But everything doesn’t go as Välde wanted...

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The Afterman (1985)

"The Afterman" is a Belgian post-apocalyptic thriller... The rudimentary plot outline is somewhat reminiscent to "The Omega Man", with a sole man trying to stay alive in a post-nuclear wasteland and the constant threat of other bewildered survivors trying to take advantage of him or even to kill him. Only the concepts of the two films are similar, as the elaboration of "The Afterman" is completely different. There's no dialog in the film and – mostly due to budgetary restrictions – no use of special effects or impressively staged action sequences whatsoever. At the beginning of the film, the nameless main character is still safely entrenched in a nuclear bomb shelter. He has been there since the bomb, or whatever caused the apocalypse, and fills his days eating maggots and making love to a frozen female cadaver. When a short circuit forces him to leave the hideout he's initially enthusiast to learn he's not the only remaining human being left on the planet, but he quickly learns that it's every man for himself now. His first encounter with a group of drifters results in a painful male rape scene, and perverse sexual satisfaction remains the leitmotiv throughout the entire movie. The man subsequently encounters a murderous lesbian millionaire, a couple of farmers that keep a girl locked up in a cage, a sect of fellatio-practicing monks and a sleazy type of society that imprisons women and throws food and sex orgies. The girl that the man freed following a deadly encounter with the farmers stays with him and a strange relationship develops between them. (IMDB Coventry)