Mouth Problems (2022)

Absurd comedy about a man trying to solve his marital problems.

Hans is a 35 year old Estonian man, enjoying his 2 year anniversary trip with his wife, Eliise. Hans has problems in bed, but he sees a commercial for a Finnish yoga that should make him better at sex. Hans leaves without telling Eliise where he is going. Hans takes the yoga class where he manages to meditate so well that he taps into his siddhi (a person's inner power that one can attain by practising yoga), and manifests a mouth into the back of his head. He finds out that the mouth belongs to a Finnish man named Pekka, who had sex with Eliise when she and Hans we’re trying out an open relationship. In an effort to make things normal, the yoga instructor sends them to find his brother, who should be able to help them. Hans goes to the back of the hotel, where he meets the brother. The brother tells Hans that the only way to make things go back to normal is to do a dangerous Finnish paganistic ritual. Hans accepts this, and they go to the brother’s hotel basement apartment to do it. In the basement, Hans has to meditate on top of acorpse and think about his problems. After drinking some very questionable liquid, Hans, and by proxy Pekka, get transported into a “black space” inside Hans’s mind, and they go on a spiritual journey. The head of the corpse appears to change into different people’s heads, who each represent a part of Hans’ problems with his own masculinity, Eliise, Pekka and his Father. Once Hans has come to terms with his own problems, the mouth goes back to Pekka’s head, and they come out of the “black space”. Hans goes back to Eliise, but after dismissing her all day, she has broken up with Hans and moved on to other men.

Keywords: absurd situation | childhood trauma | crisis of virility | pagan rituals | relationships | View all »