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I watched the full 104 minute uncut version of A Serbian Film. I always found shock content fascinating. I've seen a lot of it. ISIS execution videos (surprisingly high production value btw), drug cartel tortures+executions, horrible factory accidents, child soldiers hit by RPGs etc. I've seen movies like The Human Centipede.
So when I heard about A Serbian Film, and read a review that said it was the most horrible thing they've ever seen and to not watch it (and banned in several countries!), I knew I had to watch it.
Well, it certainly was something. It's fairly hard to shock me at this point, but shocked I was. If that was the movie's goal, it succeeded in that at least. There are interesting things that could be said about the movie. It is, however, quite hard to say them after having your brain cells fried after processing the events of the film. There are some interesting sociological questions that the films very existence poses; such as what limits if any should there be on artistic expression? Does the film even count as art? Did the director pay for the actors therapy?
Genuinely, actual footage of cartel gangs cutting out people's tongues and forcing them to eat them is less disturbing. With them there isn't the added layer of trying to figure out why the footage you are watching was made. Like, it's cartels doing cartel stuff. Simple. But with A Serbian Film you are left with the horrific realization that someone wrote, directed, acted, then approved the scene you are watching for the purpose of making a piece of media.
Has anyone else watched A Serbian Film? What were your thoughts?
So when I heard about A Serbian Film, and read a review that said it was the most horrible thing they've ever seen and to not watch it (and banned in several countries!), I knew I had to watch it.
Well, it certainly was something. It's fairly hard to shock me at this point, but shocked I was. If that was the movie's goal, it succeeded in that at least. There are interesting things that could be said about the movie. It is, however, quite hard to say them after having your brain cells fried after processing the events of the film. There are some interesting sociological questions that the films very existence poses; such as what limits if any should there be on artistic expression? Does the film even count as art? Did the director pay for the actors therapy?
Genuinely, actual footage of cartel gangs cutting out people's tongues and forcing them to eat them is less disturbing. With them there isn't the added layer of trying to figure out why the footage you are watching was made. Like, it's cartels doing cartel stuff. Simple. But with A Serbian Film you are left with the horrific realization that someone wrote, directed, acted, then approved the scene you are watching for the purpose of making a piece of media.
Has anyone else watched A Serbian Film? What were your thoughts?