The Missile shifts from the international politics of a Soviet missile landing in Finland to the much more personal exploration of the life of Niina Kuittinen, who finds herself at the centre of this event. Oona Airola playss the role of Niina who is a single mother in a dead end job of living in a small town, with her life characterized by social isolation and tedious work from scanning for newspaper cutting and constantly looking for some form of validation from society. Everything in her life changes when a Soviet missile lands near her village which pushes her into the center of controversy.
The international incident becomes an opportunity for Niina to develop as reporters, government agencies and a crowd of people make their way to her village. With increasing attention comes new friendship, moving secrets and an opportunity for Niina to discover herself. Her journey of being a shy archivist to a strong woman plays has been the key highlight in the movie.
In the film, we can see that Pyry Kähkönen has played the role of Kai Repola who is an irresponsible and garrulous reporter who considers the unbearable fate of the plane to be his jackpot. The film is also filled with Hannu-Pekka Björkman as Esko, and Tommi Korpela as Pertti Keinänen who is again a somewhat bizarre engineer and his views on the missile really help to crack open the whole secret. And we could see this story which has both personal and political facets inter-connected at times resulted in the touch of warmth. Apart from the political turmoil in 1980’s, Mria Tervo elaborates how the other more emotional aspects of the film were well managed too.
With landscapes and adversity to overcome in the film, we see Miia Tervo portraying an inspiring take on the character, combined with the growing drama, we see an exciting journey to Finland which serves as a great metaphor for the story. A wonderful hint towards what the audience should expect is concluded by the director’s message of self discovery pairing it well with warmed up politics between Finland and Soviet.
