Review of The Cuckoo (2002) by Mahmod N — 09 May 2010
Loved it, had my very own theory on this one here.
Well first of all I truly admired this film , it delivered a wonderful taste of Russian masterpieces .. like 'Zerkalo' and 'Vozvrashcheniye' . the story is great , but I felt that the film is not just about a woman helping two soldiers and the three of them are talking in 3 different languages . maybe the film went far behind that , as Veikko represents Finland and Ivan (gerlost) = Russia and Anni represents The History as she acted like a judge between them . a cuckoo is a bird that repeats words , and also she had many names like history has many versions , and at the end she tells their history to their next generations . The Soviets attacked Finland claiming that they want to protect their borders , But history Sympathized with Finland more (when Anni preferred to have sex with Veikko ) and Russia is always with a bad luck with history ( Ivan :- I haven't been lucky with women ). and finally the scene in which Anni tries to get back soul to Veikko .. maybe this refers to that History can rise a country and kills another.
This review of The Cuckoo (2002) was written by Mahmod N on 09 May 2010.
The Cuckoo has generally received very positive reviews.
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