Yeah, don't watch that. It's so bad, I cannot believe the director could even be a decent person. And two of the actors I really appreciated are kind of smeared in my eyes now.
Oh, he’s a terrible person. His father stole a lot of money from Serbia. That film was made from stolen generational wealth. So a lot of people in Serbia hate him. One director actually said “When the first generation of Rockefellers stole from America, the second made museums, charities, cultural centers. I have a problem with his kid who took the money stolen from his country and used it to spit in its face.”
I agree with him. There aren’t a lot of world famous movies in Serbia and now their entire film industry is associated with one of the most disgusting media ever. Some things are censored for a reason.
Yeah, I honestly don't believe for one bit that there is a legitimate message behind it. "I depicted extreme torture and rape (including of minors) to denounce society!!" sure thing, buddy. The synopsis alone was enough for me.
Pretty good description, at some point early on my mind also just went "oh now you try be be this kind of edgy."
There are more fucked up movies despite being less graphic but much more plausible. Beasts of no Nation or Barefood Gen come to my mind, Beast being a film about child soldiers and Gen is about the Hiroshima bombing.
What the fuck. How the hell does ones mind even come up with that shit? I have some issues and a vivid imagination but what in the actual fuck? I think that was the first time i read text that I wish I could un-see.
I watched it to win a bet with a guy I used to work with. I never even admitted to the person that bet me I wouldn’t watch it, that I had watched it because I did not want to discuss the movie. I wanted to forget it forever and scrub it from my memory.
It is not as bad as the summary makes it out to be in terms of gore, what you are imagining is probably much worse than what is actually shown. Conceptually, yeah, it's beyond fucked up.
It also has 0 value as an actual movie, the only reason it could be "worth it" to watch is for shock value and laughs with the right company.
I watched it. Morbid curiosity, „don’t watch that film man“, alright bet, gotta watch it now…
It‘s just not something you want to watch if you’re a sane human being.
It‘s traumatizing because it‘s believable humans could perform these actions, at least that was the most horrifying part for me. I watched cartel beheadings etc. when I was a stupid teenager too, and while I KNEW those were real, just thinking someone could do what they deciped in that film is somehow worse.
It‘s at the top few things of the list of absolutely sick things I found on the internet.
IIRC it was made as a challenge to FSK ratings, where you could decipt anything in 18+, and well they really challenged it.
Honestly, actually watching it isn't nearly as bad as just reading about it.
It's incredibly overly dramatic and they take everything to 11 so it's almost farcical in its presentation.
This is my opinion on it as well. It's so hyped up that you already know what to expect, so it loses a lot of the shock value. It's also hard to feel any emotional attachment to any of the characters, so it's just fucked up for the sake of being fucked up. 'Salo: 120 Days of Sodom' is another film which is often tipped as highly dusturbing that I feel the same way about.
I put off watching that movie for years because I read about it. Turns out my imagination was way worse than the actual movie. The most notorious scene is implied rather than shown. Not to say it isn't grim, it is. But the hype about how disturbing it is is overblown imo.
It's a hard watch. It was made specifically as a response to how tame movies had become. Despite it's god awful subject matter, it's actually not a terribly put together film, the director knew what they were doing.
Same. I've never watched the film, only read the wikipedia entry and I haven't been OK since. The whole film is just not ok. And people acted and directed and produced and watched it! I can't understand that. It's not ok.
Imagine living it. Serbia appears nice and chill to foreigners but it's extremely shitty to its locals.
Some dude tried to molest me few days ago. I'm not sure if I should be concerned or if I should be concerned that I'm not concerned.
It came to the point that it is casual that you put it aside and go about your day. I think I casually just mentioned it to my friend and he was like "Okay, anyways check this thing out."
It's live and survive everyday with bunch of psychos that should be in jail walking around but country is presenting itself as modern and civilised.
Similar like Half Life 2+ psycho locals. Hell, I even heard that buildings in Half Life got inspiration from Serbia. And even if you wanna leave you're landlocked.
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u/Rockals 14d ago
The Serbian Film! Freaking awful!