Yansa Creations presents
In association with OutlineStudios and Kaarna Productions
An Olli Ylinen Film
Inner Trial
Unemployed, unemployed.
Unemployed, unemployed, unemployed.
Unemployed, unemployed, unemployed...
Do you have any plans for the future? - Still unemployed.
Unemployed...
Here is the application for sickness benefit -
and papers for early retirement.
Income earnings have not changed.
Wouldn't it be nice to get a job -
so you could buy yourself for example a motorcycle?
3.7.2006.
Helsinki. Noa Storm.
Are you even considering of going to work? - No.
Have a niceday.
Good morning. Tickets please.
Can you make us invisible?
Fucking time bomb.
Tickets.
If we paid one percent more tax, we would get free public transport.
Fuck I hate Hämeentie. - Did you hear what I said?
Seriously, one percent? - Yeah, think about it.
Come.
Men just can't fuck. Bad sex sex.
They really don't know what women want. Bad sex.
Vagina is just a stranger to them. Bad sex, sex.
One's own pleasure is the man's thing. Bad sex.
Bad sex. Bad sex.
Then women pretend orgasms. Bad sex sex.
And men's style is, bad sex.
Hey baby three minutes is all it takes.
Hey baby three minutes is all it takes, pathetic.
Bad sex. Bad sex.
Bad...
Oh, hey.
Hi. I'm Elisa.
Ronja. - Hi Ronja.
Will you join us in a revolution?
Hell yeah.
Hey. Peace out, rock on!
One, two, three, now!
Private driving is a public disease.
Crash and burn! Crash and burn!
Parents should understand that they don't own their children.
Did they get you to read psychology? - Because of them I see people
as compulsive disordered emotion junkies.
Who are the sum of their traumas.
What about his parents?
The Universal Culture is already here.
In the beginning of the new era, when the age of machines begun, -
The Universal Culture saw daylight on earth.
Ignorant of their own actions, humans built culture like ants -
and so all the preparations have already been made.
Our generation needs only to break loose from our inner worlds, -
relax and focus on the outer reality.
And when this happens, mankind will notice, -
that, the paradise is already here.
The Universal Culture is already here.
Directed by Ilmari K. Kurki.
Written by Ilmari K. Kurki.
Produced by Ilmari K. Kurki.
Look, a buffet is served.
A spacestick.
If I eat this will you call an ambulance for me?
Hey, youngsters! Come. Sit here.
Now, what did you think about the document?
Well... It was very interesting. - Ah, thank you, thank you.
Thanks for the document.
Thank you. Here, take my business card.
Thanks.
I started wondering, -
how could everything feel fresh all the time?
Hey, think about the concept of time.
Second, -
minute,-
hour,-
and again the beginning of a new hour.
Why are we so driven by a minute?
We want immediately to grab five minutes.
So now we should really open our eyes in our time.
An eye is made to see, an ear to hear, -
a nose to smell, a mouth to taste and skin to feel.
Why do you pretend to see, hear or taste?
Feel! Feel the primitive gift of birth.
The more real the sensation is, -
the more you confront the outer reality with your psyche.
Surrender. Where's passion and love?
Without them it's seriously hard to comprehend.
Yeah... what if all our good thoughts are connected to love.
Love?
Well at least you need that to create your own culture.
He's seriously disturbed.
Well...- Well, what?
Have you already analyzed me? - You're a bit harder to crack.
Strict inner moral, difficulties feeling sympathy for others, -
underdeveloped social norms.
Are you an only child?
And then you must have been also raised liberally.
Eat. Don't smoke.
Fuck I smoke a lot. I can't breath!
I'm a fucking addict.
Did you know that nicotine causes more addiction than heroine.
Because smoker's brain receptors -
start to scream for nicotine every 60 minutes.
Just like with addicts.
And not only for nicotine, but also for sugar, -
liquorice and ammonia.
Magnesium for smoother and better burning.
In the 20th century trials tobacco companies claimed -
that tobacco has no connection to cancer. Like fuck it doesn't.
4 700 different chemicals and 50 radioactive components.
They spread out everywhere in your body, your liver, -
kidneys, spleen, heart, ass. Little toe.
Think, in seven seconds all the shit has reached my little toe.
Fuck! Think what kind of condition my toes are in...
How long have I smoked?
Fucking thirteen years!
Fuck I'll get a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
There you suffocate in your own saliva.
But when I grow up I'll quit this fucking smoking.
Because all the shit in this world is caused by stupid adults -
who show a bad example to the children.
Well, an addict is an addict.
But Noa... If I don't quit smoking before I'm an adult and will die, -
will you come to my funeral?
Am I becoming addicted to weed?
Haven't you been listening to a word I've been saying? Fucking idiot.
Two and a half years of smoking weed.
It's no miracle if you start getting addicted.
But still, I'm more intelligent than 99% of the world's population.
Up there in top 10 with Gandhi and Einstein. Clearly.
Intelligent enough to enjoy the sunshine.
Stupid enough to enjoy the UV radiation -
and the 100 000 different cancers it causes, that will kill you slowly.
And painfully. Ending up bald.
Yeah, but I'm conscious enough not to be afraid of it.
And I'm cynical enough to tell you that one day you'Il be fucking afraid.
Well, an emotion amongst other emotions.
Ilmari K. Kurki. Cosmology Ph.D.
Man doesn't create culture. Culture creates the man.
The Universal Culture creates a culture,-
which has already brought man to the era of space.
The only thing missing -
is one's direct contact to The Universal Culture.
Actually, I've been in contact with The Universal Culture since my youth.
But only later I realized what it really was.
All the time you yank about your space stories.
Leave the young alone.
Hey Noa came here to talk about the states of consciousness.
My wife Larissa. Former media consultant for Marimekko.
Well.
Want some coffee? - Thank you.
What do you think about thoughts in general?
Thoughts are about creating an opinion by yourself.
While facing matters directly is that you allow them to contact you.
Right...
Yes.
Would you like some cream?
Hi. Is Noa home?
No, he went somewhere. - Do you know when he's coming back?
Well, come on in.
Ronja... Sorry I'm Iate, I'Il just go and get changed.
You need help with that?
Fuck if a woman can't open her own wine bottle...
Wow, hey hey, wow.
It's just like in the 70s.
When we met, instead of asking what to do, -
we asked what drugs we should do.
That's right. Elisa.
Hi Elisa. Ilmari K. Kurki.
Hi Ilmari K. Kurki. - Wonderful Elisa.
Want some? - Oh, thank you.
Here you go.
Skool.
Ah, excellent.
Fire is an immaterial phenomenon, a reaction.
An event in between matter and immaterial.
Could God then be a part of the same phenomenon?
You are speaking about God? Well, what do you think about it?
If you ask Him directly, the answer is the whole universe.
Oh, funny. I've always thought that God has blue slippers,-
seven peacock feathers on His head -
and a wonderful heavenly choir singing praises.
Would you come downstairs to talk with me? - I'Il come in a minute.
Noa, what if there's no beginning, no end, but instead this whole universe.
Look, the moon!
I was wondering, -
do people pay attention at all to their thoughts?
Like is this a good thought -
and what emotions this thought creates in me?
But don't thoughts just uphold our emotional world?
Exactly. Look at the children, -
their whole thinking process begins only after their emotions.
Hey, what about your next article, any topic yet?
You want some? - No thanks.
Or maybe just a little.
Thanks.
I think that my next topic is right in front of me, inhaling deeply.
Huh, now I remember why I started smoking pot in the first place.
Um... We were thinking about going to one after party, -
would you Iike to join us? - Yeah, I think I could come.
Actually this lady is now going home, with an escort.
What a true gentleman you were. - I'm just protecting you from idiots.
Says a man who speaks of individual liberty.
But do you realize that... - And your judgementship is at its best -
after smoking weed all night with a 100 years old fossil.
Ilmari knows what he's talking about.
And besides cannabis sharpens the senses. - Right.
Good night, thanks for the escort.
Wait.
Hey wait up now!
What's that? A cow-sheep.
It's really ugly.
You know...
In this kind of a moment you want to do something, -
but you're not certain what the other one feels.
What are you suggesting?
Hey! I'm not Iooking for a relationship.
But a kiss isn't yet a sign of any kind of commitment.
No it's not but lets still leave it at that.
Oh fuck! The interview.
I have to go, come and meet me at church of St. Johannes.
What?
Bye...
Actually my first experiences of The Universal Culture
were at this very same place.
But I didn't know they belonged to it then.
Take some.
Where did you think they belonged to then?
When I saw Hindu Gods above this church I didn't need any explanations.
In the spiritual reality, one's size stands in direct proportion -
to the size of one's consciousness.
So our body draws our limits?
But thebody is not a prison because it's a temporary state of life, -
if you approach it in the atomic Ievel.
Yes...
Hey, take a picture.
Are you ready?.
On the atomic level we are truly immortal and ageless beings.
Age is a relative phenomenon, and in The Universal Culture, -
I'm Zawahal, a space marine only at the age of 27.
Say again? What was it? Zawahal?
Only 27 years old.
How do people usually react -
to your information about The Universal Culture?
I really have no idea.
You really don't know? That's completely mad.
No one has commented.
I have presented this story, but received no comments.
I think I only place human existence to a wider time perspective.
3 million years is just not long enough for the development -
of human consciousness. We are a great deal older.
You know? My time perspective -
just received a command to get some ice cream.
Wait, I got that message too. I have to get some ice cream as well.
Let's continue this interview later.
Bye bye.
Noa, what's up next weekend?
I'm probably going to Ronja's friends party.
I was thinking of taking some acid. - You mean LSD? At a party?
That's crazy.
On the other hand, I've never said no to acid trips.
Do whatever you please.
That's what I thought.
How do I Iook?
Depends on who you want to impress.
He's this... Slightly stranger guy.
That shirt at least is terrible.
Terrible...
When you feel everything so strongly, time is completely dense.
It sounds like some kind of matter. Can it be touched?
But it touches us all the time.
So it must be then.
Can we continue now, in this time?
Wow!
Everything we think is programmed.
And who programs it? We do!
And our parents, and the society, and the people close to us.
Can we go already?
Everything just feels so extraordinary good.
Ronja... Ronja!
Hi! Hi!
Nice-nice-nice!
This is Noa. - Outi.
I AM GOD!
Does anyone declareas equal?
One, two, three...
What's going on?
What the fuck are you doing with that guy?
I'm going to marry him.
Why are you fucking with me?
Because you are so fucked up.
Have you looked around you?
These fucking morons don't even understand that they really exist.
Hey, sorry, I just wanna get out of here. Can we leave?
I'm sure you can see yourself out.
I just can't stop praising -
Iiving in the outskirts of The Universal Culture.
Nothing to worry about, not a thing expected from us.
Except Ronja. At least less drugs.
Yeah, right. Women always try to control their men's drug use.
Besides... Two things I'm taking with me to The Universal Culture -
are weed and sex.
I'm going to flush the rest of my acid.
What?
You got LSD?
Why didn't you say so?
Hey! Let's take together and go find out what's wrong in your relationship.
No. Not now. Ronja would have a seizure, -
besides she doesn't want me to give them to anyone else either.
Listen. This is not her decision to make.
Besides, acid has never stayed in my pockets for more than 30 minutes.
Take. - This is for us. Okay.
Noa, march, march, march.
The Lords of Karma have been replaced!
Hell has been emptied and transferred to Pluto.
Three million years of The Universal Academy is finally over.
Why all this?
Because Supernova has exploded.
We have two options.
Either to leave, or take this whole solar system with us.
Of course, as a man of power -
I believe that such a paradise as this is not to be abandoned.
So we'll make this a spaceship.
How could a false prophet know he's false?
I won't stay here listening to this.
We're gonna take this planet away, whatever crystal hippies say.
This is a military operation -
in which crystal hippies don't get to interfere.
Look where you're going, mammoth!
We came to rescue you.
Don't touch me.
Ronja. - Fuck off!
The meat is mine.
Ronja!
Hey, grandma. The mammoth's been hunted down -
and there's enough meat for the whole tribe. Just go get yours.
You want some more to drink?
I'll have another one of this.
Make it two.
Look, here's my room number.
Hey, where are you going?
Give-give-give.
I just wanna be sober.
Good, more for me then.
Seems that you have moved on to older men.
Listen.
I have only one thing to say to all the women on this world.
Abuse the abusers, fight fire with fire,-
drink every drink offered to you, -
then give them that sexy look.
And in the end cross your legs and say, pearls before swines.
Get it?
Hey, darling, what do you want?
Noa! - Gin Tonic.
Look, this is how to reduce madness.
By taking contact.
By taking contact!
Look at me! Look inside me!
Hey, I'Il create a myth of five tequilas.
Can you bring me five tequilas, and salt, salt, salt, salt.
Give me salt!
Oh, salt, yes.
Look.
Like this Noa.
Do you know, you don't know.
I'm as good as the Broadway dancers. Seriously.
You know there are unbelievable women here.
Don't you know that the most conscious male gets all the females.
Anyone! Do you believe?
Come on, step on board my helicopter, Iet's go to Sirius.
And you are my woman!
Noa!
I wish that after summer would come summer, again.
I can't take the winter.
Okay I know I smoke a lot, but I haven't ever raped anyone.
Or killed, or beaten anyone.
At most I have eaten my roommates ice cream.
No children, you don't have to be afraid, -
there's no danger in smoking weed.
No? No.
It doesn't make you imagine yourselves as jumbo jets -
or make you peel your skin thinking you're an orange.
Instead, at best, -
it makes you understand that you are part of one big entity, -
and that the rat race is just full of shit!
And you can really enjoy your time.
Really? Yes.
Many of us carry shame inside ourselves.
Shame is believing that we are worthless.
The power of shame is hidden in the subconscious.
Then you feel worthless and don't understand that it's because -
you have been treated badly in the past.
Shame is born because one is looked at through loveless eyes.
He or she is negated, underrated and abandoned.
Then you perceive yourself as you are looked upon.
Do you realize what kind of fine we could get for doing this?
Fuck. Here goes for the Night of arts.
One life. I do what the fuck I want.
Next place, next place!
Honored indigo children. This way.
The last moments are upon us and only fools save their money.
Follow me.
I didn't know you're this rich.
Yes, I just sold my latest document to the Finnish army.
To Finnish army?. - Believe it or not, -
they're interested in these kind of borderline phenomenon.
I thought that they're more interested -
about the borders between countries.
How about it Joona, care for some? - No thanks.
What? What Joona?
Let's smoke later. - All right.
Hey ladies, here are the new star travelers on board, -
make room, welcome.
But no, no-no-no, you have this kind of clothing.
We are going to buy you new clothes from Marimekko.
No-no-no, not Marimekko. We are going to some other clothing store.
Girls, make some coffee and prepare yourselves -
for these star travelers, thank you.
Follow me.
Northern water, southern coffee, Finnish milk, brown sugar, -
and to each other, psychophysically present.
Let us take black coffee.
First comes this taste, then that taste.
Leave my body as a twilight zone and take us through the atoms.
I bought a new lighter but no-no-no, watch this.
Come to my piggy back, lets flytogether!
The ear is for hearing, the eye is made for seeing!
Drum boy, drum, it will be rewarded!
Here's for you lots and lots ofmoney.
One, two, three, four.
All for you.
I own this city!
Generals of Sirius, here I stand. Earth is open for your arrival!
When this country took money for its prime status value -
it started to crash!
I believe that the welfare of a nation is born of each one building it!
Kick!
I would like to report a crime.
You can't really resist it.
What cannot be resisted?
You can't really resist it.
One man is standing against the army.
You don't know who it is, but I know.
He gathers allies, he has a lot of money.
I want to be the ally of the rich man. And stand against the army.
Well, what's up in the next weekend?
I'm gonna get wasted with Koskenkorva-
and attempt to drown myself, respecting Finnish summer traditions.
I'm just gonna chill out at home.
You're not going to the forest party?
Forest party?
Take me with you for the trip to the forest.
No... I decided not to go -
to that forest party.
Um...
I feel a little bit strange -
about some things... -
what I've done with you.
And I've missed you.
I haven't missed you at all.
How are you doing?
You know what? Okay...
I have read a little bit too much psychology.
Look what I got. You'll never guess.
That's for sure. - Mushrooms.
What? You? - Yes...
Mushrooms?
I thought that I should try them one day... One day...
Will you take some with me?
Well I don't know...
Take some.
The mushroom is coming. The mushroom comes.
Take it so it won't go to waste.
No effect. No effect. No effect.
Do you think this twig has a consciousness?
Hmm... There might be a whole kingdom inside it.
And look.
Now it's destroyed.
Lovely that you are so open.
Lovely that you are so stiff.
Stiff?. What's stiff about me?
Now stiff let's go swimming.
I can't swim.
Bring my clothes to the other side.
Like inside a mother's womb!
Give it to me!
Take it away, come and get me, thank you!
Come! Fly! Let's depart!
Would the gentleman like some mushrooms?
Think, that...
I just...
I just... You're the one who gives fuel to this fucked up system.
You.
Ronja!
I would have let it be, but you are taking this further.
There's a conspiracy here after all.
Look, Iook, what goes around comes around.
There's nobody against you.
I know who's calling the shots around here, -
and you don't even smoke weed.
I doubt you're even a true Finn, You're a traitor.
Listen now Ilmari.
I'm your friend.
I have fought a long time with you for the sake of our fatherland.
I wouldn't have believed that my own brother in arms turns against me.
What would you say, if I could see in to the future.
But the future doesn't even exist.
This does not go the way you imagined!
You misunderstand the structure of the time.
But how do you know it's the future you see?
I just know, because from us -
I'mt he best one at calculating probabilities.
Good heavens!
Hey!
I have waited here in the woods for tens of years -
for someone smart enough to send reinforcements.
The Universal Culture, here I am!
Her phone is still dead.
Don't rush it with Ronja, you can't force any more attention from her -
than what she's willing to give.
Fuck, fuck this shit.
Well, an addict is an addict.
Fuck I think I should step outside of myself -
and analyze my mind piece by piece.
Maybe then I could realize where the fuck all this shit comes from.
That sounds like some fucking psychotherapy.
Or a LSD trip...
Should I take acid? - No way.
It doesn't solve anything.
What you need now is tea, comfort and an animal tale.
You just have to live through the hard bits, -
that's the only way to get rid ofthem.
Noa? - Hi, where are you?
In the country side, just relaxing a bit.
Why did you leave me alone at the party?. - No I didn't.
I swam over to the other side but you never showed up.
I'm having this horrible acid flashback, -
I thought you drowned and I think I'm going insane.
Insane? You've gone insane so many times -
you shouldn't be afraid of it anymore.
Is that where your compassion ends?
If you can't take care of yourself then I'm not the one to blame.
Do you think I'm stupid? - Yes, I think you're stupid.
Do you know what you are?
Well what am I? - An abuser. That's what you are.
You always use the goodwill of people for your own purposes.
Everything must go exactly as you want and I always have to be -
in a condition that is suitable for you! - You're a lunatic.
I have never asked you for anything. Never. Anything.
Then why have you been seeing me in the first place?
Because of some obligation? - You're fucking stupid.
You're sometimes so pathetic that one just can't say no to you.
That sounds so screwed up.
You meet people out of obligation? That's disgusting.
Do you think it's easy for me? And fun? Not even close.
I don't want you to see me ever again for some obligation.
Then why did you call me?
What ever I do, it's always bad in some way.
Why is it always so bad? - Fuck you. Go fuck yourself.
Fuck me? No fuck you!
Fuck you! Fuck you!
Now I really miss you. - Fuck you! Fuck you!
Love is patient. Love doesn't envy.
Won't see his own weaknesses.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude.
You're stupid! And ugly! And you have no sense of style!
Low self-esteem.
You make spiritual violence with your calculating!
Narcistic personality disorder.
Guilty!
One morning, the mole snuck to the kitchen.
The kitchen had a strangely quiet atmosphere.
There was a splinter of bark on the table, -
on which the woodpecker had pecked a message.
Dear mole. Friendship without loneliness isn't complete.
Words without thought, mere hollowness.
I have gone to the forest to seek my song.
From the holes of the fallen trees, I seek my lost, precious treasure.
You understand. Silence.
One morning the mole woke up,-
when the woodpecker pecked on his toe.
It was still very dark, -
in this hour nothing can yet be seen, silly you.
But you can see, you can, answered the woodpecker, -
the sunrise is a complete stranger to you as the hick-up is for the bird.
I pecked stairs for you.
Come on, lets go.
Up up we climb. Up up we climb.
Up up up we climb.
Up up we climb. Up up we climb.
Up up up we climb.
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All the food served during the filming of this movie was vegetarian.