The Match Factory Girl stars his blond, blank-faced Garbo, Kati Outinen, as a downtrodden factory worker whose attempts to discover love and companionship are constantly thwarted by her possessive parents and a succession of cloddish, exploitative men. Although the girl's plight is taken seriously, there is something in the extremity of the situations, and in the lovingly depicted hideousness of her Helsinki home life, that is irresistibly comic. Inspired by the Tiananmen Square uprising, the match factory girl resolves to take a revolutionary stand, arms herself with a packet of rat poison, and sets out for revenge. My favorite music video. Its a series of skits, parodies loosely arranged around a spoof of Cat Women on the Moon which was a stinker of a B movie.
Some real belly laughs.
All fairly amusing. When Sam becomes enmeshed in unraveling this bureaucratic glitch, he himself winds up labeled as a miscreant. A real cult classic. If you haven't gone to a midnight showing filled with fans in costume, you a missed a real experience. A black comedy set in a postnuclear wasteland.