Update on movies I don't want to see.

[rmd]

One of the films that, having read the description, I didn't think I wanted to see was "A Serbian Film". I just read an interesting review of it.

Because ten minutes in you realize what you are really watching is a recreation of the Serbian experience of the Balkan wars

Reading the wikipedia article on the film... yeah, actually, I can see that interpretation. Still don't think I want to see the film itself, tho.

Comments

[daspatrick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, wow, that movie sounds like AN ENORMOUS DRAG.

"Audition" had the good sense to own up to the fact that it was an epicly perverse horror film. Movies like this, I feel like, always attempt to mask their sensationalistic depictions of horrific sex and violence behind some BS "message" or a lame attempt and claiming it's all metaphor. And it leaves me vaguely nauseated.

No one is going watch this film in order to gain a broader insight into the Serbian experience during the Balkan wars. The attention it gets will inevitably be due to the horrific nature of the content therein.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

Of course, it seems that some nationalist Serbs are viewing this as an AWESOME PRO-SERB movie. (why? i have no idea. maybe because the Serbian hero is SO VIOLENT?) At least that's what I hear from a mefi user who lived thru the war (http://www.metafilter.com/98076/A-Serbian-Film-Not-torture-porn#3398818).