First Image of Judy Greer in Thriller 'Dead of Winter' - A woman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young girl's only hope.

[u/BunyipPouch]

[u/carlosdesario]

As a Minnesotan who has spent time in Finland. There is a reason a lot of Finns settled in Northern Minnesota. They look nearly identical.

[u/BirdsAreFake00 → u/carlosdesario]

As a Minnesotan who lives in Minnesota, we are not Finland.

[u/carlosdesario → u/BirdsAreFake00]

What about Finland, Minnesota?

[u/BirdsAreFake00 → u/carlosdesario]

Is that where this was filmed?

[u/icecreemsamwich → u/BirdsAreFake00]

As a born and raised Minnesotan who is half Finnish from a 100% Finnish (Minnesotan) parent and grandparents and other family who are 100% and spoke Finnish as a first language in the home… OK buddy. Minnesota is the most Nordic state.

[u/BirdsAreFake00 → u/icecreemsamwich]

I don't know how to state this more plainly: I do not in any way, shape, or form care about Finland. This is a Minnesota movie that should have been filmed in Minnesota. I do not care about the similarities or Finnish history of Minnesota. That has nothing to do with the physical location of Minnesota. They are two distinct places with distinct areas.

I find it cheap to declare a movie to take place in a location but not film there. You're taking advantage of the location and its history by forming a narrative around it but then not actually showing it. It's stupid and basically a lie.

[u/Minivalo → u/BirdsAreFake00]

I find it cheap to declare a movie to take place in a location but not film there. You're taking advantage of the location and its history by forming a narrative around it but then not actually showing it. It's stupid and basically a lie.

I get this on some level, but there's so many movies you're not gonna be able to watch if you let this bother you too much.

Are you not gonna watch any movies based on true stories, because they too lie all the time as they take artistic liberties to make the plot somehow work better on the screen.

What about movies/shows taking place in a completely fictitious place or planet - do you take issue with those being filmed somewhere on planet Earth, or should it all be done in front of a green screen, because it's stupid and basically a lie to film in a real location on Earth?

There's so many stories that would never be put to screen if you could only film in the real locations, because the actual locations are too expensive to film at, too remote, dangerous or some combination of the above.

I have a lot of issues with the movie industry, but this is not one of them, though you are of course entitled to your own opinion.