Girl of Finland Page #4

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happened in the past few days-

- I feel the weakness...

This is going all to hell.

Man is weak but God is strong.

All right,

I can do that any way you like.

- I feel weakness...

- Listen, Petteri.

Now if you make that caricature

so bloody strong-

- we'll be running into farce

and our reviews will suffer.

Isn't this a comedy after all?

It's not the same thing to do comedy

and make farcical types.

Let's try a song. If we can get the

song going as simply as possible-

- you'll find you can do the lines too.

Let's try it.

The earth is pressing,

pressing on the beam

The earth is pressing

Earth is pressing on the beam

And the dead one's pressed

Into the earth

Yes, now it's coming.

I thought so too. The colourless

aspect is the main thing.

All right, let's try it like that.

So it's... tomorrow then.

My uncle is a pastor

and he's a very nice man.

I see.

The way you do

that fascist priest in the play-

- is that your idea of the clergy?

No, it's my idea of the fascist priest

in this play "The Lapua Opera".

The pastors and bishops of that time

distorted the image of the church.

How do you know?

Were you living then?

There's

clear documentary evidence about-

- how the clergy helped in acts of

violence by giving their blessing-

- and by choosing

"the God's chosen leader".

They even went so far as

giving their blessing to murder.

Have you ever thought

about the private motives-

- that the priest might have had

that made him act that way?

They don't really interest me. You

talk too much about the individual.

I'm interested in how what he did

affected the nation as a whole-

- what he achieved

by giving his blessing.

You don't seem to

think much about individual.

If we try to have an effect

on some whole, on a herd-

- it's got to be intensified.

You can't handle big masses

with feather-light stuff.

If they come

and it has a terrific effect on them-

- and they're shocked

when they see the play-

- what will they do then?

There you go talking

about individuals again.

If we can affect the general opinion,

then we should do it.

It's much better to do that

than if we don't do anything.

The motives of

the Finnish movement-

- were pure, patriotic and unselfish.

Communism was a national threat.

It threatened

the recently-achieved independence.

The Communist Party

was forbidden.

Nevertheless Communists operated

publicly, openly, communistically.

The Government could not ensure

that its decisions were carried out.

The independence of the country

was in danger.

Independent action

was an ancient tradition-

- independent action

to the point of taking up arms.

And then they made

widows and orphans.

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