Must See Movies

And then there's the original kung-fu vampire movie

It's not exactly uplifting.

That's an understatement... :P

I don't understand why Trainspotting is so popular. I thought it was kind of boring the first time I saw it. Decided to give it another chance after about 10 years and still don't understand what people see in it.

I feel the same about A Clockwork Orange, I don't understand why people like it. They are just odd movies that stand out and I guess they had some shock value for their times, but I don't find anything interesting about them.

Yes for Schindler's List, especially if you know a bit about the history. That got me really good.
Can't say this for 12 Years a Slave, I found it pretty boring and too predictable.

Add the rest of the films by Satoshi Kon, not only Perfect Blue.

• It's true what you say about das weisse band, however even if it's closer to germany, whatever we liked or not, it's also about european history. Maybe in here there is predominat another type of christianism, but what this films tells is very relatable in my country too.

• The act of killing should be watched (like some of those films) at least once. On high schools or something, for those students who are entering into adulthood. Maybe 16-17 years old. Even if you feel like shit afterwards. I should watch the 2nd part.

• About The Tree of Life it has not only one of the most beautiful OSTs I've ever listened to, it's also very 'deep'. But deep in a good way. I remember talking about it in class and different people had very different opinion about it. For one classmate (in his 50s), it was related to his childhood, something pretty. For me it was darker and very sad, nothing posititive. I remember some cinemas in here gave an extra ticket, so you could go out of the movie within 30 minutes and they'll give you back the money.

I thought reviews were good. Won cannes festival and everyone praised it. After this film every work from Malick has been quite poor too. Maybe he'll never make something as good as this film. I'm still shocked with the dinosaur's scene, when the hunter finds a sick prey and leaves him alone to die... yet the human father is unable to show affection to his own sons.

• I've watched Rashomon.Could be perfectly in any list on this thread. I watched it one random night because I was bored and suddenly there was a shot of a girl's feet (not that I'm a foot fetishits, but the scene is magical) while the guy is waking up. I don't even think that's the first scene, but my memory won't forget it. Was my first Kurosawa film and one of his bests. A little bit slow, maybe, but that's a 50s film.

I also forgot to say. Someone else reccomended Perfect Blue. It's from Satoshi Kon, who died very young :/ He was one of the best japanese directors at his time. He worked with anime because he liked it and thought it could be a good way to express feelings/what he wanted, etc. (or I remember I was told that). He was a pupil of Katsuhiro Otomo (the Akira dude) and Black Swan is a free adaptation of Perfect Blue. You should watch anything he made, including the TV series Paranoia Agent
Opening

Edit: I'm not a film expert, lol xD

Yep.. :)

I'm up for anything. Bring on the pain!

Btw, I’m Serbian.

Nice, hello :)
Although I don't know if that is really very relevant. Because the title of the film does not make any sense to me. I mean it's a Serbian production made by some Serbian guys in Serbia, but that's all. As if the title is a meta description, and not related to the content itself, like basically any other film title ever. The content or the story, or whatever else, is not particularly Serbian, from what I can tell. The film could have taken place in any other part of the world as far as I am concerned.

Or were you just trying to say that you watched it in the original language, without the need for subtitles? That would be beneficial, I think, and maybe makes a small difference when it comes to understanding details or something like that.
There is also the problem with different cuts/edits/versions of the film. I mean it has been on sale in different countries, and I'm fairly certain that a friend of a friend of mine, who is quite a film fan and collector, had this one on DVD (or Blu-ray?). Because I think I remember that I once had the case in my hands. But the version that got published in Germany, for example, was cut, the same for Great Britain, and I think it's the same in most other places. I don't know how or where you can find the original, uncut version. Somewhere on the Internet, probably :)

You are right about the amateur level, I think that is a fair description. But this is a true independent film, and a low-budget production, so this should be taken into account. As far as I know, the director and writer paid for the whole production with his own money and no external funding. So this might explain the production quality aspect, and I was actually a bit surprised, because I maybe expected even worse for the budget. At least I have seen films that were made even worse in that regard, by far..

I have never read any interview by the makers, so I can't really say anything about this. I don't know if it can be considered as a commentary on sociological issues. I mean yes, to some extent, but probably not very "deep" :)
But I disagree about the talent and violence part. I mean you could have definitely made it with less violence, but the depiction of violence is actually the whole point of the film, according to my understanding.
I'm not sure about any motives, but this would be speculation anyway. Maybe it's just for the fame. But I think a more nuanced and tamer approach would have worked better here. So I guess it is primarily just some statement. And maybe he wanted to proof that even now, in the 21st century, censorship is still real and alive, even in the so-called "enlightened" West. If that is the case, I would say: A huge success.

Hard to tell without knowing you.. :)

But probably not. It's still just a movie. I mean you can find stuff that's much worse - and real - on the Internet and such..

Thank you! :)
I haven't thought about it that way, I mean watching movies depending on their director. I absolutely love those movies too (V for Vendetta as well), I'll check out some of Christopher Nolan's other stuff. Interstellar, maybe. :)

Yeah, exactly.
I'll check out V for Vendetta's graphic novel, now that you've mentioned that in a comment above.
Hopefully I won't come out of it hating the movie adaptation, but if I do it will probably be because I've experienced a better version of the story, so there's nothing to lose either way. 😋

I was referring to the system in which the detectives operate. Additionally, only the local, country cop is backwards in his methods, which is credible and supplies the point of contention between the two. I had no problem with that.