davidbyrne-eu
Amazing idea, cut scene's with some new way in movie genre, some mutation of underground and noire with punk elements and road movies elements... Excellent work with not professional actors but very professional scenarios and direct by Maja Milosh...
This movie present one standard, typical serbian family, one wasted young life, one country with all elements of IT&FASHION&CULTURE prosperity but very young and very fast travel down to the centar of humanity basic instinct for love, sickness, popularity, glamour and down to the basic hell... Main motive is not A desire for power, but a daily and unsuccessful attempt to just be everything in the norm of social values. A very politically and chauvinistic film, but not as propaganda, but as the worst humiliation of these terms, beginning with a wave of music, through Chinese dressing up to the true feelings of love, remorse, sorrow and happiness in a few million population city ...
Camilla Deadwood
I happened to watch this film 2 years back, when it was released actually. I was really eager to watch this one as it was attracting a huge controversy over graphically explicit sex scenes throughout. I watched it and honestly, I was not shocked or surprised or to say the least, even remotely impressed. The lead character, Jasna, the troubled teenage girl is awfully harsh to her family, not even a bit of empathy has been shown to her character. She barely talks to her diseased father, sometimes she just looks at him with disgust. Jasna never cares about how much her mother is working day and night to provide for the family, the ill father and a sister that Jasna has no bond with. On the other hand, this same apathetic teen has been doing everything in her ability to impress a senior student, a school bully, Djole. She is humiliating herself sexually and trying every path to seduce Djole and present herself as the trophy girlfriend to him. Jasna and her friends throw themselves to whole night parties, drugs, alcohol and sex. She does everything her so called boyfriend Djole asks her to, which is strictly restricted to sexual favours only. So seriously, how does one relate to this film? What is really so shocking about this drama? I simply dumped the film. 2 years later I watched it once again. Surprisingly this time, I felt I could connect with it. So I watched it three more times at the go. This film is not as empty as I initially thought it to be! I could feel what Jasna feels. I now understand why is she so apathetic towards her family. Why is she so after the dude who is simply using her and trashing her. She feels. She feels much more than her family members do. She cares, she just do not know how to deal with the never ending loop of struggle, pain and hopelessness. She does everything to escape from her reality that is excruciating to her. And as a mean of escaping from the bluntly harsh reality, she throws herself to a life of sex and drugs where she thinks she would forget about the reality. She imprisons herself inside the wall she creates for herself in her mobile phone, by recording videos of whatever that is happening around and specially when she is involving in sex acts. That is her relief. (Although at end we see that may be Jasna and Djole do have genuine feelings for each other). Majority of the viewers may not agree with me on this, but I somehow find this movie very deep, emotionally raw and extremely unstable when it comes to mental health. Despite the sexual content and always partying teens, this film is seriously depressing. And Isidora Simijonovic is flawless in her part portraying 'Jasna'. She has certainly made a mark.
dejan-fehirov
When I started watching this movie I could not but think that this is a brilliant art-movie. I like these films consider the problems of society in a very realistic way and without hesitation. Since I live in Serbia, I absolutely understand the message that the movie sends. This is our reality, not so great but it is a reality for some to admit it or not. My rating for this movie is pure 10 with five stars! I recommend everyone to see this film and wonder in what kind of environment we live. This movie does not propagate immorality. Just shows what today's teenagers like in Serbia, but also in other countries..
Anastasia Beaverhausen
I'm surprised that this simple message director was trying to send didn't manage to reach people. The movie shows lives in suburbs of Belgrade, people trying to survive poverty and illness and teenagers dealing with current situation without any adult they can rely on. Haven't been able to express their emotions in the right way, they're trying to do so trough sex, violence and turbo folk music. Lack of character and plot development, also carries certain message. Shallow character in the movie is also shallow person in the real life. My personal opinion is that director's primer goal wasn't to shock audience and that explicit sex scenes couldn't be left out. The viewer's impression just wouldn't be the same. To understand this movie properly, you have to understand current situation Serbia is in. Clip is about decadence of young generations and their struggle to be accepted, to be loved and to be understood in this diseased society.