The plot of the movie has been already described pretty well in comments by other people so I won't repeat it so extensively here. The other comments are however (or at least have been so far) quite positive so I thought I'd add my own opinion too since I didn't think this movie was that good.
Like I said this movie is based on a good idea. In short it's about these 4 guys who get this idea of a sort of a 'game' where they would video all of their.. well, intercourses and then watch them together afterwards for fun. As most people can probably guess, things end up going very badly wrong and people get very hurt (a girl gets raped and one of the guys eventually kills himself).
Sadly, the realization of the movie isn't as good as it could have been. It doesn't feel believable. I just couldn't buy it that these 4 guys would do the things that they are shown doing. The character development feels often unrealistic. It's sort of hard to explain. In the movie 'Traffic' the viewer is in my opinion shown pretty believably how people end up making bad decisions and end up losing control of their lives. This movie fails in that.
As a result, I found this movie to be entertaining (often even amusing) mostly because of its general "freakiness" and its shocking subject rather than its quality. This movie reminds me of 'Baise Moi' and 'Mauvaises fréquentations' both of which are these sort of depressing french dramas where peoples lives basically go down the toilet (although 'Hymypoika' has a happier and more hopeful ending). If you like this, check them out. Also the movie 'Piano Teacher' has the same sort of feel (and dysfunctional characters) in it as 'Hymypoika' has.
My vote is 6/10. If you haven't seen this you haven't missed anything special.
PS. If you want to see finnish movie at its best I would recommend Gourmet Club. It has a funny plot and the cast includes Michael Badalucco (he played 'Jimmy Berluti' in 'The Practice'). Also I can sincerely recommend a very well produced and very entertaining dark comedy short film called 'Rare Exports Inc.' which reveals some amazing facts about the origin of Santa Claus. Reviews of both can be found here on IMDb.
Like I said this movie is based on a good idea. In short it's about these 4 guys who get this idea of a sort of a 'game' where they would video all of their.. well, intercourses and then watch them together afterwards for fun. As most people can probably guess, things end up going very badly wrong and people get very hurt (a girl gets raped and one of the guys eventually kills himself).
Sadly, the realization of the movie isn't as good as it could have been. It doesn't feel believable. I just couldn't buy it that these 4 guys would do the things that they are shown doing. The character development feels often unrealistic. It's sort of hard to explain. In the movie 'Traffic' the viewer is in my opinion shown pretty believably how people end up making bad decisions and end up losing control of their lives. This movie fails in that.
As a result, I found this movie to be entertaining (often even amusing) mostly because of its general "freakiness" and its shocking subject rather than its quality. This movie reminds me of 'Baise Moi' and 'Mauvaises fréquentations' both of which are these sort of depressing french dramas where peoples lives basically go down the toilet (although 'Hymypoika' has a happier and more hopeful ending). If you like this, check them out. Also the movie 'Piano Teacher' has the same sort of feel (and dysfunctional characters) in it as 'Hymypoika' has.
My vote is 6/10. If you haven't seen this you haven't missed anything special.
PS. If you want to see finnish movie at its best I would recommend Gourmet Club. It has a funny plot and the cast includes Michael Badalucco (he played 'Jimmy Berluti' in 'The Practice'). Also I can sincerely recommend a very well produced and very entertaining dark comedy short film called 'Rare Exports Inc.' which reveals some amazing facts about the origin of Santa Claus. Reviews of both can be found here on IMDb.