The Home of Dark Butterflies 2008 123movies

Watch: Tummien perhosten koti 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – Juhani, 14 years old and tormented by a childhood trauma, has changed several foster parents from the age of eight. He is taken to an island, where there is a boys’ home, run by a strict superintendent, Olavi Harjula. Besides the seven boys that dwell there, there is the superintendent, his wife, his two daughters and a woman for menial help. Juhani is gradually accepted by his peers and strikes a friendship with the eldest daughter. When Harjula is advised that funding will stop for his school due to his harsh methods, he decides to start a silkworm project for self-funding. All the boys agree to stay and help him, apart from Juhani, who expects to go back to his family that wants him back..
Plot: Haunted by his traumatic past and cautious about the prospects of an uncertain future, a fourteen year old boy named Juhani winds up in an isolated boys’ home known as The Island. Juhani has been shuttled between foster homes and temporary families for the past six years, leaving any prospect of stability in his life a faded dream. When Juhani winds up in a remote shelter for troubled youth known as The Island, he has little idea of how ruthless superintendent Olavi Harjula can truly be.
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The Home of Dark Butterflies
Juhani Johansson (Niilo Syväoja) is a teenage boy with a very traumatic past who gets sent to an isolated home for troubled boys situated on an island, presumably sometime in the 1960s. The home is managed by a strict but fair man named Olavi Harjula (Tommi Korpela), and besides him and seven boys the only people on the island are Harjula’s wife Irene (Kristiina Halttu), their two daughters and the female caretaker Tyyne (Kati Outinen). After initial adaptation troubles and an escape attempt, Juhani starts bonding with the other boys and befriends Harjula’s older daughter Vanamo (Marjut Maristo). Still, dark shadows of the past won’t leave Juhani alone and the other boys have their own problems as well.

Besides Juhani’s development, the story is also about Harjula’s plans to solve the school’s financial problems by breeding domesticated silkmoths with the help of the boys (hence the title of the film). Harjula’s blind commitment to his job with the boys is taking its toll on his frustrated wife who subsequently cannot handle the physical and emotional isolation and has to seek closeness elsewhere. Some of the dramatic twists of the story, a certain death scene in particular, don’t necessarily seem highly realistic at first, but since the focus is more on the emotional side of things, they have their place in the film. Juhani’s budding relationship with Vanamo is closer to ordinary youth movie material, but helps to present Juhani’s changing moods to the audience without artificial voice-overs or other tricks.

Visually the film is strong: Juhani’s development is portrayed at an unhurried pace using many flashbacks to cast light on his home life with his unstable parents. The dark blue hue of the flashbacks provides a strong contrast with the green summer on the island and the brownish interiors of the house. The scenery in general is also very beautiful.

The most effective part of the film is the acting; Tommi Korpela radiates charisma as the superficially strong Harjula and Pertti Sveholm as Juhani’s father Erik nails the sycophantic but explosive part perfectly. In his first starring role, Niilo Syväoja brings Juhani’s confusion to life on his slender face with few words, and while Eero Milonoff may look a little old for his part as Salmi, the most menacing of the boys, he handles the role with competence too.

In the end, the main theme is forgiveness and accepting the fact that making errors is an essential part of human life. The most interesting aspects of the story, namely Harjula’s complex, contradicting nature and the sad fates of a few characters, are quite haunting, but perhaps the lack of action from Harjula after a revelation regarding his wife could have been explained better, even at the risk of losing some of the enigma surrounding him. In any case, The Home of Dark Butterflies is a well made film and a good addition to Dome Karukoski’s directorial career.

Good acting and emotional topics
The Home of Dark Butterflies (Tummien Perhosten Koti) is an emotional drama which tells the story of youngster named Juhani Johansson. He is moved into an island which contains the home for troubled boys. The film showcases emotional fights with their own pasts.

The acting in the film deserves to be praised. All of the actors capture the mood of the book really well and picture the characters like they were imagined. The island was also pictured really well with it’s stormy waves and the old house. Film’s use of visuals work really well and give strong effect with the film’s topic.

Sad thing about the film is the fact that it doesn’t feature some keyparts from the book. The story works pretty well but doesn’t raise up to it’s full potential. Also, some of the characters don’t get their chance to shine and stay pretty unknown or worthless.

The story is twisted from the book where Juhani is an enemy with the boys for a long time before rescuing one of them. In the film he makes friends with them pretty quickly which lowers the film’s potential, it would have worked much better with the original plot from the book. The worst scene of the movie is the part where one of the boys causes a death really unrealistically.

Apart from the negative things, the movie works really well and I recommend watching it.

Other Information:

Original Language fi
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min) (Finland), 1 hr 48 min (108 min) (Finland)
Budget 2300000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Drama
Director Dome Karukoski
Writer Dome Karukoski, Leena Lander, Marko Leino
Actors Niilo Syväoja, Tommi Korpela, Kristiina Halttu
Country Finland
Awards 8 wins & 8 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,945 m
Negative Format 16 mm (flashback sequences), 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Spherical (source format), Super 16 (source format) (flashback sequences)
Printed Film Format 35 mm