![]() ![]() It features some scenes so utterly horrible, you’ll question what must be going on Serbia. Later, he begins to wonder what kind of film he is making when he finds himself in increasingly strange and unpleasant circumstances featuring all measures of abuse.Īs I said earlier, A Serbian Film is quite clearly intended to get a reaction. Early on in the film, we know Milos is a successful actor because we see his young son watching one of his films, in a fairly awkwardly written and performed scene. The plot follows retired porn actor Milos (the admittedly impressive Srđan Todorović), who agrees to star in an ‘art’ film directed by Vukmir (an overacting, borderline pantomime Sergej Trifunovic), to secure financial security for his family. By attempting to label it as art, Spasojević tries to justify it but ultimately it’s disagreeable. At least when John Waters made a film like Pink Flamingos, he knew and openly admitted it was an exercise in bad taste. ![]() Its director, Srđan Spasojević, has claimed that the film is a political allegory for the horrors faced in Serbia, but this isn’t particularly obvious to anybody, and doesn’t give the film an excuse to be bad taste. The problem with A Serbian Film is that it is quite clearly deliberate in its attempts to shock and disgust, which really seems to make it pointless. It is fair to say, after a viewing of A Serbian Film, that it’s difficult to disagree with the censorship boards and most critics A Serbian Film is a nonstop wave of scuzzy images, misogyny, unpleasantly graphic sexual violence and gratuitous gore that ranks as one of the most deliberately hateable films ever made. When A Serbian Film was first released, it was heavily cut by the BBFC, banned in numerous countries, and generally considered to be one of the most despicable, nasty films of all time. From the religious backlash against The Passion of the Christ, to the censored nastiness of The Human Centipede: Full Sequence and Irreversible, many films, have seemed to be controversial from the start, and usually live up to the notoriety. ![]() Controversy has been at the heart of many films since the birth of cinema. ![]()
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