Re: A Serbian Film In Hindi Download
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I recently re-watched A Serbian Film with a friend, and we both had pretty negative views of the film before. Its a controversial film for its excessive violence and portrayal of children, but we were both interested in revisiting it after a piqued curiosity recently with extreme horror. After watching it, I think I appreciate what it aims to do more, but I don't necessarily like it. Nonetheless, I do feel there's an interesting discussion to be had about the possible merits and weaknesses of this film.
Arguably, A Serbian Film could be the most controversial film of the 2010s - banned in multiple countries, and many refusing to release the film uncut, it's a film that caused much dismay on the film festival circuit during its initial release. I feel it's understandable, the violence is excessive - sexual violence, humiliation, rape, degradation and children are included in this onslaught of gore. A retired porn actor, Milos, is given the opportunity of one last well-paying job. The production details are vague, but he learns that he's in too deep to escape.
The director Srdjan Spasojevic has gone on the claim that the film is a commentary on his views of the world regarding politicians in Serbia, the world's sensitivity and political correctness (there's a pretty interesting interview with IndieWire, whether you agree with him or not on the film, which you can read here: -interview-the-director-of-a-serbian-film-now-on-dvd-and-yes-the-movie-deserves-its-rep-51495/ ).
I'm not a fan of A Serbian Film, but to an extent, I can see what the director means: the extreme violence is confrontational and disturbing, and it feels like it's intending to be as excessive as allowable on the screen in an attempt to rattle one's sensitivity. I also feel there's some weight in the comment on politicians too, and this air of celebrity that surrounds some of them, like an exploitative pornography focus on powerplay and degradation. I think specifically of the scene when Milos is being fellated by a woman in a dark room, tears down her face, as he's being choked and encouraged to hit her in the face. He's being pressured into a decision he doesn't want to make, and yet he must make it, in a somewhat similar way that some politicians make decisions that go against what they had once promised. Maybe a stretch, I suppose, but it feels like a scene that actually fits what Spasojevic claims to have intended with this film.
However, my gripe with this film is that when a film drops the viewers into the deep end of excessive violence, it begins to feel flat, and the intended impact disappears. Not only that, but any commentary seems to disappear too when the audience is more focused on the violence in the film instead of its satiric concepts. I feel the film personally "jumps the shark" when Milos gouges out a burly security guy's eye with his penis. It looks ridiculous and it makes me a little giggly seeing it.
I will, however, give benefit of the doubt: what if this is intentional? What if the violence is so excessive that it's juvenile on purpose? What if A Serbian Film is intended as a gallows humour dark comedy, similarly to Man Bites Dog? Milos pulls exaggerated facial expressions throughout that would make perfect reaction images, and after the trauma of the central family - going through rape and murder - and dying in a triple suicide, the film ends on a twist that feels like real gallows humour: the porn film production continues as one crew member unzips his pants, implying things are going to get worse. It's morbid, but with it being an unexpected twist - how would one consider a porn film to continue being filmed when what seemed to be the rest of the crew and stars of it are killed? - followed by a dark gag (understandable if you feel this wasn't intended as a joke, but I feel after all the excess, and the relief and solace we get from this family putting themselves out of their misery, it was an added absurdity that, after all the trauma, things COULD get worse).
I suppose in a long-winded way, I feel I appreciate A Serbian Film more, but I don't necessarily like it. I feel that a film like A Serbian Film has its significance in challenging what is acceptable in cinema, and for as long as it causes controversy, it'll remain in its own confrontational gratuitous way, important.
What do you think about A Serbian Film? Do you like it or hate it? Why? Which films would you recommend for fans of A Serbian Film? Do you agree with the director's words that it was intended to offer commentary, or do you feel those are words chosen to defend his film? Would be interesting to hear what others have to say on such a controversial film! :)
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A Serbian Film is about retired porn star Milos (Srdjan Todorovic), a middle-aged man struggling to provide for his family who is lured back into the industry for one last film. He has been offered enough money to set him up for life but, in return, has signed a Faustian pact with the director Vukmir (Sergej Trifunovic). Milos will have no control over the scenes in which he appears.
At the American Film Market (AFM) this week in Santa Monica, there have been plenty of movies using shock tactics to attract the attention of the world's distributors. But gnarled old distributors and blasé film festival programmers alike seemed genuinely shocked by Srdjan Spasojevic's ultra-extreme thriller called A Serbian Film.
Publicists whispered to journalists that the film was truly "vile". Prior to its AFM screenings, the movie had already been yanked out of Frightfest in London when Westminster Council ruled it couldn't be shown in its uncut form and had started frenzied debates about censorship and freedom of speech. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) had asked for a staggering number of cuts in the film and for a full four minutes of footage to be excised in order for it to qualify for an 18 certificate.
One US distributor fainted as he tried to leave a screening of A Serbian Film earlier this year, hit his head on the door and ended up needing stitches. The film's British sales agent was left hurriedly trying to clear up the pool of blood.
There is a feeling of nihilistic self-loathing that runs through the film. In some eyes, after the Balkan wars of the 1990s, Serbia is still a pariah state. The alleged war criminal General Mladic has never been arrested. The memory of Slobodan Milosevic hasn't been exorcised. Films like A Serbian Film and another equally extreme Serbian movie The Life and Death of a Porno Gang play on Western preconceptions about the country and can't help but reinforce them. The very title of A Serbian Film suggests that the director and his screenwriter Aleksander Radivojevic are making an allegory about their troubled and isolated homeland. The screenplay is full of references to the corruption and squalor of family life in the country. However, audiences have been responding to it in stubbornly literal fashion and haven't been slow to express their utter disgust.
As with any film that becomes a succès de scandale, A Serbian Film's notoriety risks stopping it from being judged on its merits. Even its fiercest critics concede that it's a film with a relentless narrative drive. The porn star is played with an unlikely crumpled charm by Srdjan Todorovic (a musician and veteran of Emir Kusturica's films.) He is (at least initially) a sympathetic figure: someone desperate to do the best for his family.
"Shocking and disturbing as it is, this is really a well-made film," he declares. "Everything that happens in the movie happens for a purpose, to get you to the next part of the story.... I've seen a lot of horror movies and a lot of exploitation movies and I've never had a movie affect me the way this film did."
In a market like this year's AFM, full of anaemic vampire movies pastiching Twilight and of "torture porn" of the Hostel or Saw variety, A Serbian Film can't help but stick out. It has a craftsmanship that these films lack. Its UK distributor Justin Marciano of Revolver believes it can find an audience among "intelligent fans of horror".
The movie will soon surface in some form (almost certainly in the cut version) in Britain before Christmas. When it does so, some are bound to condemn it as being beneath contempt. What A Serbian Film underlines, though, is that some pictures can still get under audiences' and censors' skins. If this was just another bad and grotesque horror film, nobody would be paying any attention to it. The fact that it has already provoked such ferocious debate suggests that it can't be dismissed that easily.
A Serbian Film centres on Milos, a retired porn star with a wife and son, who struggles to make ends meet. One of his former co-stars introduces him to Vukmir, a mysterious filmmaker with powerful political connections. Vukmir is willing to pay Milos an astronomical fee to star in his new project on the condition that he agrees to shoot the film without seeing the script. Soon Milos is caught in a nightmare that drags him further and further down into the most revolting horrors. A Serbian Film contains extreme imagery and is certainly not for everyone. But those disturbing images and situations are the expression of a deeply felt anger against the moral corruption of authorities and the grotesque, absurd hell to which they subject the people they rule.
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