Review: Meidän poika

Devastating secrets

Everything starts with an explosion, and it also ends with an explosion. In the meantime, Our Son, written and directed by Pasi Lampela, seeks an explanation: why a kind first-grader in comprehensive school grows up to be an anxious high school student who detonates a self-made bomb in a shopping centre.

Effective, emotion-shaking staging and precise, precise work from the entire cast! It is frighteningly easy to identify with the mother played by Merja Larivaara , who feels her son slipping out of her hands but can no longer do anything.

In the end, everything is attributed to the mothers, right?