margosanci Have you ever heard a story about goodness? Maybe once, or twice, hardly more... Listening and talking about someone being good is boring... We take it for granted, nobody cares about the grace, no one remembers. In the time of war, goodness means life, in the peaceful times goodness stays good and sometimes saves lives. This is a story about the moments when goodness touches the soul of a man, as some drop or rock that hits the water, leaving the circles behind. This movie goes around those circles of lives and records their touching, the echo of love. If there is a story about us, people of Earth, it has to be told, and I'm glad I watched it.

petarmatic All of us who are from the former Yugoslavia are stunned when a film like this comes out.My question is always was the war in the former Yugoslavia worth it? The answer is resounding NO! It was one of the most stupid wars since the dawn of mankind.As far as the film goes, it just is so excellent that it leaves me breathless. They do not make films about people any more, actually they rarely do. This one is must see! Gritty, that is how you can describe former Yugoslavia. And this film shows it well.For a Westerners it probably looks exotic. Actually it is. Full of PTSD and Paranoid psychosis, created by poverty and nationalistic struggle.If they ask me what they could do for these peoples to fight less I tell them create Germany on the territories of the former Yugoslavia. I know it is not an easy task, but that is the only solution.Trebinje kad me vidiš jebi me! I do not know village on this Earth which hurted me more. First in 1943 they destroyed my house in Dubljani, about 30km west of Trebinje, evicted all the Croats from there. Then, in 1991 they burned my house in Mlini near Dubrovnik, they also sent soldiers to bomb my hometown of Sarajevo.I wish it never existed, but I will never hurt anyone from there, I just am not that kind of person.

Reno Rangan This is the movie, like, just waiting for me and I used the opportunity very well to enjoy it all the way. Serbian submission for the 86th Academy Awards in the category of best foreign language movie. I feel this movie deserves to be on the short list, unfortunately it was not.Superb story telling. It was sliced into multiple pieces according to the characters. Whole story happens behind the incident that takes place at the very beginning of the movie. So the characters who are involved in it takes the different form of emotions to the next 12 years where the most of the movie happens.As usual like any movie the opening incident was preserved for the end portion to explain. It was not the first time, but it worked fine with the movie. The movie characters were amazing, each of them had their own affairs to deal it. But how all these people are connected to one another is the crucial segment of the story narration.This movie was actually based on the real event about a Serbian soldier that occurred in the year 1993 during the ethnic war between two religious people. It was very well filmed, capturing the facts in realistic structure including the places. I don't know what made the Oscar people to discard it. It was one of the best movie of the year 2013 but was not noticed largely.

Trentflix Circles, aka Krugovi, is based on the true story of a Serbian soldier who was killed defending a Muslim civilian from other soldiers while he was off-duty. The results of this event are fictional but that kernel of truth grounds this film in a firm realty. The majority of this film takes place a decade after the Serbian-Bonsian conflict is over but its effects are present throughout.What makes this film great and sets it apart from a straight-forward narrative is the way it skillfully withholds information and only reveals small details of what happened and the history that has ensued. This keeps the audiences rapt attention and makes it much more tense than it should be because we don't know how the characters are going to react because we don't fully know what happened. The characters don't go off on a lengthy moralistic speech or expository dialogue. The communication is much more realistic in that they don't say what they are thinking and they hide information from each other – much like real life. The cinematography is great, from the millennia old desert and old way of life to the inside of the BMW plant which looks futuristic; this is a film with skillful hands behind the camera. Really, this film should not be as great as it is, but the constant intrigue and slow unraveling of the mystery make this an entertaining and emotional ride. The actors too are compelling and well casted in their roles; this film would not work on any level without their excellent performances. The actor who plays the mobster-father (the IMDb credits are incomplete), even though his role is fairly small in comparison, should be the villain in every movie, he just exudes fury and hate. (He looks like an evil Michael Sheen – which is actually Andy Sirkis so maybe he looks like an evil Andy Sirkis?)From the title of this film, I assumed this would be about the circular nature of violence but in fact this can be taken two ways, it's more about the circular nature of kindness and good, and a more-accurate title would be "ripple" or the ripple-effects of a singular kind-act.