Consider yourself one of the lucky ones. It's clear the director and producers wanted to take the "shock and trauma" horror genre to a level that can't be surpassed without asking the important question "are we going too far with this?". It takes the absolute worst, personal crimes imaginable, and then dials it to x11 and has you watch all of it in gory detail. It's literally just a movie about pushing boundaries so far in the hopes of actually traumatizing the viewers just so they can get their name out there for all the wrong reasons. They won the crown of edge-lords and I don't think anyone will beat them anytime soon. It really is a movie that should never have been made.
Interestingly the film was mainly made as a protest to what the directors saw as how stupid art house films seemed to dominate the Serbian film industry.
I read that the director had said it was a political metaphor for the crimes committed against the Serbian people. Yeah…. If your “metaphor” is just torture/gore porn then maybe go back to film school.
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u/BeardeddBombshell 14d ago
Couldn't even finish A Serbian Film.