isn't that just meant to be ugly, crude and offensive
rather than challenging, gritty and words like that?
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 12:58, archived)

It depends on how you go into watching it.
I read an awful lot about it before it came out. I do see the point the director was trying to make, about victims...
( Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 13:00, archived)

Really?
I saw it as being about power and the abuse of power.
( Lord Gnome, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 13:05, archived)

I probably need to watch it again!
I saw it as Milos etc. being victims of, I guess, Vukmir/Vukmir's client's power.
( Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 13:12, archived)

The perspective I saw it from was more about power than victims.
Oddly enough I watched it again last night- along with Dead Snow.
( Lord Gnome, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 13:37, archived)

I can't convince anyone else to watch it
so I can't have discussions with people in real life about it. No one wants to see it.
( Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 13:39, archived)

Cowards.
I personally think it is a fairly good film with some obvious metaphors plastered on top. Great cinematography and didn't deserve the fuss it got on release- The Human Centipede is a much more disturbing film.
( Lord Gnome, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 14:01, archived)

I won't pretend I'm not ignorant on the intentions, just what I think Mark Kermode told me.
And as I'm a gullible Guardian reader (when I can be bothered) I happily assume everything he says is true.
( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 13:08, archived)

Bit of both.
There are about 4 scenes in it that could possibly be considered shocking but they are quite explicitly shocking. It does try- and in my opinion succeeds- to make a point about modern Serbia. The metaphors are laid on with a trowel but it's still worth watching.
( Lord Gnome, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 13:04, archived)