A Serbian Film (2010)
Directed by Srđan Spasojević
Retired porn star Milos leads a normal family life trying to make ends meet. Presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to financially support his family for the rest of their lives, Milos must participate in one last mysterious film. From then on, Milos is drawn into a maelstrom of unbelievable cruelty and mayhem.
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Literally putting the “porn” in torture porn is the film’s central conceit, but most of the ideas it communicates are no more outrageous than ones in Hollywood blockbusters such as Joel Schumacher’s “8mm” or Eli Roth’s “Hostel” films — only “A Serbian Film” leaves fewer gory details up to your imagination.
Literally putting the “porn” in torture porn is the film’s central conceit, but most of the ideas it communicates are no more outrageous than ones in Hollywood blockbusters such as Joel Schumacher’s “8mm” or Eli Roth’s “Hostel” films — only “A Serbian Film” leaves fewer gory details up to your imagination.
But what goes on in the narrative bears only the most tenuous political relevance, even metaphorically � it could be set anywhere, except that its Eastern European milieu, as with the Hostel films, might seduce American viewers into a xenophobic response along the lines of "Yeah, those Transylvanians or whatever the hell they are, they're totally sick fucks."
And to be fair, what’s shown here isn’t any more repulsive than other art films of an exploitative bent such as “A Clockwork Orange,” “Salò,” “Baise-moi” and, more recently, “Antichrist” — save for the “newborn porn,” which seems to be the real point of contention in “A Serbian Film” that has rarely survived censorship and even led to the Spanish prosecution of Sitges festival director Ángel Sala .
Come on - let's not confuse distaste for criminal condemnation, or else you might have found plenty of directors (including, delarge, the one who inspired your avatar) getting custodial sentences for what they have portrayed fictionally - or does the rape, torture and murder depicted graphically (and comically!) in A Clockwork Orange not inspire similar distaste in the viewer?
It’s not as clever as Michael Haneke’s Funny Games , which undermined genre expectations with its banality and frustrations, but it is admirable for its audacity.