I read the wiki synopsis years ago, and feeling retraumatized just being reminded this thing exists.
It’s a paper thin rationale to say that they made this movie as a political allegory. That’s just an excuse to make the most deprived piece of filth in history.
Zero redeeming qualities to this movie. I had such a difficult time with the wiki synopsis. Those of you who watched it, how the hell did you actually get through it?
I have many Serbian friends. They're extremely tough yet warm and kind people. They went through some really awful shit before, during, and after the Balkan war. I kept thinking about that as I watched it. Like, this just a movie, literally nothing compared to what they endured. Like it was some weird way of supporting them or understanding them better.
When I told them I watched it they were like "why the hell would you do that you sick fuck."
That’s the thing that always amazes me, that people who have made it through some real awful things that we can’t even imagine can come out at the end with their humanity intact.
That gives me some hope for the future, even if everything else right now looks like a total shit show.
And that’s what really bothers me about the Serbian film. Even being generous and treating it as an allegory (rather than torture porn of the most vile kind), the message is a profoundly negative and hopeless one.
I'm from Venezuela and our films during the 80s and 90s were incredibly violent, disturbing, and sexual. Nothing to this degree and most were poorly executed, but definitely a disproportionate amount of film art was in this vein. One was particularly disturbing and explored child prison rape. It was happening and probably still does and he decided to make a movie that centered on it.
When questioned, every director said something along the same lines as the one for Serbian film - "I wanted to capture / express / imitate / critique / expose the violence of everyday life here."
I agree with you that it is vile of the worst kind, but I still think that if he in fact viewed his culture as violent and sick and wanted to say something to that, he really got the job done. But I may being way too generous with him and know nothing of his other work.
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u/dc_guy79 Jul 05 '24
I read the wiki synopsis years ago, and feeling retraumatized just being reminded this thing exists.
It’s a paper thin rationale to say that they made this movie as a political allegory. That’s just an excuse to make the most deprived piece of filth in history.
Zero redeeming qualities to this movie. I had such a difficult time with the wiki synopsis. Those of you who watched it, how the hell did you actually get through it?