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Originally Posted by Ferox13
It also had some dept to it which tied in with Serbian history/war etc but I'm probably too dumb to notice these things.
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The director has described it as post-war reactionary piece similar to the shake up of the US film industry after the Vietnam war. I definitely see it as a challenge to the predominantly mainstream Serbian film industry but the post-war metaphors don't really have much more depth than "Serbia is fucked up" (well to me anyway). But yeh there's lots you could take from it if you took the time to dissect it.
A Serbian Film will definitely make my "Top List" for 2010 and I rank it up there with recent excellent foreign films such as
Calvaire,
Ex-Drummer and
Taxidermia.
I'm a big fan of the downbeat and gritty character study films that come out of the 90s (stuff like
God's Lonely Man and
Bad Lieutenant) and this film along with the
Pusher trilogy really took me back to one of my favourite periods of cinema stylistically.
A dark twisted film for sure but it shouldn't be written off as mere exploitation or shock for shock's sake and it really annoys me that the film has been marketed/hyped in this way. It's a stylish well crafted film that asserts Serbia's filmic voice showing there a force to be reckoned with. It totally shows how tired shit like
Wolf Creek and
Eden Lake really is.
The film is confronting and it's an experience like all good films should be. The fact that people are choosing not to watch it drives home the film's underlying themes of society ignoring it's ills pretending they don't exist.