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Old 04-10-10, 12:14 PM
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A Serbian Film (aka Srpski Film) (2010)

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1273235/

uhm, i've been reading about this all morning and apparently there is some seriously fucked up shit going on in this film.
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Re: A Serbian Film (aka Srpski Film) (2010)

I'll be the first to say it..

I can't wait.
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Re: A Serbian Film (aka Srpski Film) (2010)

Looks insanely bizarre... I'm intrigued.
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Re: A Serbian Film (aka Srpski Film) (2010)

Originally Posted by scott1598
from the looks of it, there might just be some of that in this flick.

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Re: A Serbian Film (aka Srpski Film) (2010)

The big controversy I've read about is
Spoiler:
that someone has sex with a baby just seconds after coming out of the mother's womb.
Sick shit.

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Old 04-11-10, 05:24 AM
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^ Dude, that might be considered a spoiler.
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Re: A Serbian Film (aka Srpski Film) (2010)

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^ Dude, that might be considered a spoiler.
Sorry about that. It's been all over the net and didn't think to make it a spoiler.
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I saw this at the Montreal Fantasia Film Festival friday night and boy is it fucked up!

The first half is pure porn/sex and the other half is pure gross sick stuff(which is awesome for horror/gore/twisted stuff junkies likes me :P)

If anyone wants details just ask heh
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Re: A Serbian Film (aka Srpski Film) (2010)

......after seeing that trailer. it certainly has a look to it. I want to see this.
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From everything I've read, this movie is just sick for the sake of being sick. It does not leave the impact that films like Irreversible and Martyrs do. I guess that's the whole point of it though. Not only does it generate controversy and attract more viewers, but those who see it can wear it as a badge of honor. I'm all for freedom of speech, but the shit that is supposedly in this film pushes things pretty far. From what I've read, the ending is repulsive. For those who are interested, this is what people are saying happens.

Obviously, I'm spoiling the ending so read at your own risk....

Spoiler:
One of the main characters kills himself, his wife and his young child with a single bullet while lying in bed. A few moment later a couple of men with a camera enter the room and prepare to have sex with the dead child's body.

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It left the same impact on me as Martyrs did. Which is none at all.
That main controversial scene might have been more shocking if the dummy didn't look so damn fake.
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Re: A Serbian Film (aka Srpski Film) (2010)

My friend brought this movie to my attention tonight and sent me the link to its Wikipedia plot synopsis:

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A Serbian Film is about a semi-retired porn star, Milos, with a beautiful wife and young son who is financially strapped and looking to earn enough money to solve his financial problems in Serbia. He is lured back by his former adult film co-star, Layla, and a supposedly visionary director, Vukmir, who promises a great deal of money to make an art house porno film. The director is interested in Milos' ability to get and maintain an erection without any visual or physical stimuli. Reluctant but financially desperate, Milos takes the job without knowing much about it other than it is supposed to be more realistic and that Vukmir appears to be well-connected and wealthy.[3][4]

Milos is picked up the next morning and dragged to a warehouse where he is supplied an earpiece, from the local sheriff. A voice speaks to him from the earpiece, telling him each move, and he follows.[3] The film crew follows him around with cameras and puts him in situations to see how he will react.[5] Initially, it seems fairly straightforward; however, a little girl appears and things begin to get more violent than he finds comfortable.[3]

Vukmir shows Milos a clip of a man helping a woman give birth to a baby girl; the man then proceeds to rape the newborn in what the director calls "newborn porn".[6] Milos quits and storms out to his car. He is approached by an attractive woman and he cannot take his hands off of her. Milos suddenly wakes up in his bed, bloodied and beaten and with no memory of what has happened or how long it has been. He returns to the set and finds a number of tapes. He learns that he was drugged, made to rape, beat and brutally murder a woman. Driven over the edge, he wants revenge on Vukmir.[5] However, during this time he sees videos that reveal a masked man choking a nude woman who has had her teeth pulled out, revealed to be his friend Lejla, and, during sex with a woman handcuffed to a bed, her head is sliced off to induce rigor mortis during sex.[7][6] Milos is drugged again, taken into a room and has sex with a body hidden under covers. A masked man enters and begins to have sex with another body beside the one Milos is raping. The masked man is revealed to be Milos' brother who was jealous of Milos and wanted his wife for his own and the body he is raping is her. The covers are taken off of the body Milos is raping and it is Milos' young son, drugged and in a state of shock. Milos gets hold of a gun and shoots Vukmir's bodyguards dead. Confronted with one of the bodyguards, Milos attacks him and knocks off his sunglasses; the guard is missing an eye so Milos rapes the eye socket.[6]. Milos' brother's head is caved and smashed to pieces by his wife who has since recovered from the drugging. Vukmir is also killed in the melee. Milos tries to kill himself but there are no bullets left. Milos returns home after punching his wife unconcious and he, his wife and his son hold each other in bed. We see that Milos is holding a gun behind his wife's back. He pulls the trigger killing all three. A businessman enters with bodyguards and a camera crew. He says start with the little one, and an actor unzips himself.


Uh...pass.
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Re: A Serbian Film (aka Srpski Film) (2010)

It really bored me.

There were a few OK scenes but most of it made me sleepy.
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Re: A Serbian Film (aka Srpski Film) (2010)

Sounds cheerful!
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This is a definite date movie.
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Re: A Serbian Film (aka Srpski Film) (2010)

This movie was unforgiveable

The baby raping scene, however fake was in concept so wrong

This movie has no redeeming features
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Re: A Serbian Film (aka Srpski Film) (2010)

Saw it some time ago. Meh. If they were aiming for disturbing, they missed.
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So is this some kind of Christmas movie the family can sit down and watch together?
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Re: A Serbian Film (aka Srpski Film) (2010)

it was hard for me to invest any sympathy into the characters when the film was really trying its hardest to look so cool and testosterone-driven. i couldn't really buy into its political message because of this either, as it was seemingly just an excuse to expose fucked up shit on-screen and try to raise the bar tremendously (which it did only in myth, but failed in experience).
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for me to be disturbed by a film, i have to have recurring thoughts about it long after i've seen it. i forgot about 'A Serbian Film' until i saw the title of this thread.
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i guess my intrest has gone up a tad (granted its Harry Knowles but still)
7. A SERBIAN FILM
Of every film on this list, the one that you’re least likely to have an opportunity to ever see, is A SERBIAN FILM. This is a fantastic, brilliant film – that given time, will eventually outgrow the absurd reactions of people that think it is a far harder film than it actually is.

This is a movie about a male Porn Star in Serbia, their Evan Stone if you will, who has retired from the business to raise a family with his beautiful wife and child. As he’s seduced back into the business by a financial incentive that would ensure his family’s security – he takes a gig for a Porn Auteur that nobody has ever heard of. A former child psychologist.

The film reeks of David Fincher & Paul Schrader. The film also echoes THE HANGOVER – in the sense that it does concern trying to piece together what exactly happened, since a character wakes up with little memory of what ensued… and he has to rediscover what did happen.

It is a down right shame that this film has no U.S. distribution of any kind, and while I do understand the why – I absolutely disagree. This is a film that absolutely deserves an NC-17, but that absolutely does not deserve to be unseen, which too often, is the end result of an NC-17 rating. As a result, no one will pick it up. It needs someone like who Harvey Weinstein used to be. This is powerful, uncompromised filmmaking for an Adult audience – and one of the best films of 2010.

Also Harry defending putting it on his list on twitter
People that think they have a bead on A SERBIAN FILM, need to shut the fuck up until they see it. The film is an incredibly great film, where everything feels correct in the context of the film. It is never exploitive
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pass.
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Re: A Serbian Film (aka Srpski Film) (2010)

I does have US distro though and they are editing for a R rating also. I assume ALOT of cutting and dialogue replacement (dubbing into english will happen) can earn it an R and a runtime around 70 mins lol. Lionsgate did a very similar deal with Murder-Set-Pieces, they cut 20+ mins and got an R for it
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Re: A Serbian Film (aka Srpski Film) (2010)

Originally Posted by JJE-187
I does have US distro though and they are editing for a R rating also. I assume ALOT of cutting and dialogue replacement (dubbing into english will happen) can earn it an R and a runtime around 70 mins lol. Lionsgate did a very similar deal with Murder-Set-Pieces, they cut 20+ mins and got an R for it
wow, if its as bad as everyone says it is, what would be the point of cutting 20-25 min out


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