Shadows in Paradise (1986)
Matti Pellonpää: Nikander
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Quotes
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Nikander : [Nikander and Ilona are in a restaurant] Do you find it dull here? With me, I mean?
Ilona Rajamäki : Why?
Nikander : Just asking?
Ilona Rajamäki : Take it easy, Nikander! Everything is OK today. I don't know about tomorrow. Maybe the weather will turn, or something. What do you want from me anyway?
Nikander : Who? Me?
Ilona Rajamäki : Yes, you!
Nikander : Do you want to have more wine?
Ilona Rajamäki : Answer me!
Nikander : I don't want anything from anyone. I'm Nikander. Ex-butcher, now a carbage truck driver. Bad teeth and stomach, liver is hanging on! More than I can say about my head. No use asking what I want.
Ilona Rajamäki : I only asked.
Nikander : You're welcome!
Ilona Rajamäki : It's cold in here.
Nikander : I haven't paid attention to it.
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Ilona Rajamäki : Let's go!
Nikander : Where?
Ilona Rajamäki : For a drive, out of Helsinki.
Nikander : What, now?
Ilona Rajamäki : Yes.
Nikander : Ok. But I must see a friend first.
Ilona Rajamäki : Why?
Nikander : That's none of your business.
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Ilona Rajamäki : Don't you know how to knock?
Nikander : It's my apartment.
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[first lines]
Nikander : Friday!
Co-worker : [co-worker is offering Nikander a drink] You want?
Nikander : I'm driving.
Co-worker : Listen, Nikander. We've been a team quite a while. But I've been doing this for 25 years. I'm getting tired and so is my heart.
Nikander : What's the matter with it?
Co-worker : What ever.
Co-worker : I've got an idea - my own company. Five trucks to start with...
Nikander : What does it end?
Co-worker : The sky is the limit. The state and the banks will back us. I know everything about this game, but I'm not going to die behind the wheel.
Nikander : Where, then?
Co-worker : Behind a desk. And I need a good foreman.
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Nikander : Wait a minute.
Ilona Rajamäki : I don't think it will work out.
Nikander : What won't?
Ilona Rajamäki : Anything.
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Nikander : These are sheets and a towel.
Ilona Rajamäki : I can see that.