F Off shows no false respect towards the authorities in its impudent and candid reportage of the developing countrywelfare state Finland It is a cinematic parallel to Donners New Book of Our Land 1967 The travelogue focuses especially on Finlands outsiders lowpaid workers and the unemployed In desolate provinces the inhabitants of a cold and barren country either humbly abide their fate choose to move to Sweden or take refuge in excessive drinking These images are accompanied by protest songs based on Donners own prose and the lyrics of poet Jarkko Laine Perkele is embodied in big business and the political eliteThe jagged antiaesthetics of the film correspond to the underground movement and the radical politics of the time The camera agilely penetrates everyday life Though opposed to censorship Fuck Off itself transgresses the boundaries of privacy
