A typical "kitchen sink" drama, but made the Balkan way, meaning with even bigger doses of unnecessary depression and with the obligatory nonsense that predictably occurs near the end of the film. Raise your hands, anyone who didn't know that everything would end very badly for the main characters. Are there any such people in the audience at all? Does this movie even have an audience?
Two idiotic scenes really help destroy this anyway already mediocre movie. The first one is when some lawyer stereotype gets into Ristovski's taxi and Ristovski informs him that he is not driving anymore, that he is finishing for the day. Well, then, if his working hours were over, why did he open the door to a passenger in the first place? Even more stupid is the passenger replying to Ristovski by calling him a "moron" - which really is moronic. Very forced abnormal/immoral behavior - as if the idiocy that Paskaljevic prepared for the viewer just a few minutes later weren't enough.
Namely, Ristovski's wife is killed in a scene completely devoid of logic, a totally nebulous scene worthy of some cretinous low-budget thriller. An ex-lover (or whatever) comes to her place and offers her flowers. She rejects him, and then he STABS her with a KNIFE, immediately, without any warning, without any attempts to talk to her, not even a word. Who comes to reconcile with a person, bringing over a bouquet of roses - and a knife? ("I'll bring the flowers, of course, but just in case I believe a knife should come in handy too.") Ask Paskaljevic and Ristovski, they are responsible for this very frivolous script.
Then Ristovski takes an autistic girl to some shack, in order to put a bullet through her and then himself. She however leaves the car, goes somewhere. Where? Sorry, no clue. Coz that's where the movie ends.
So the film delivers its extremely negative ending, its predictably negative ending, because we already know in advance how these morose dramas end when a Balkan director is in charge: at least one main character must be killed. Still, Paskaljevic was quite "ambitious" so he wondered if he should kill off all of the main characters in a short period of time, similarly to what occurs in "Taxi Driver".
Generally, Paskaljevic has a habit of killing off the main characters at the end of the film, because I guess the man doesn't have a lot of imagination, so he thinks that only such drastic, overly dramatic endings have enough "cinematic power" to help him get a few more awards at the usual inept European festivals. I suppose he might have learned that from Shakespeare, I really don't know. This is anyway a mega-cliché in Serbian films that the main characters get knocked off at the end, and that nearly always implies, if not outright proves, that the writer was struggling how to end the story. It's just plain laziness.
But hey, Goran Paskaljevic is a nepotist. Why wonder...
Two idiotic scenes really help destroy this anyway already mediocre movie. The first one is when some lawyer stereotype gets into Ristovski's taxi and Ristovski informs him that he is not driving anymore, that he is finishing for the day. Well, then, if his working hours were over, why did he open the door to a passenger in the first place? Even more stupid is the passenger replying to Ristovski by calling him a "moron" - which really is moronic. Very forced abnormal/immoral behavior - as if the idiocy that Paskaljevic prepared for the viewer just a few minutes later weren't enough.
Namely, Ristovski's wife is killed in a scene completely devoid of logic, a totally nebulous scene worthy of some cretinous low-budget thriller. An ex-lover (or whatever) comes to her place and offers her flowers. She rejects him, and then he STABS her with a KNIFE, immediately, without any warning, without any attempts to talk to her, not even a word. Who comes to reconcile with a person, bringing over a bouquet of roses - and a knife? ("I'll bring the flowers, of course, but just in case I believe a knife should come in handy too.") Ask Paskaljevic and Ristovski, they are responsible for this very frivolous script.
Then Ristovski takes an autistic girl to some shack, in order to put a bullet through her and then himself. She however leaves the car, goes somewhere. Where? Sorry, no clue. Coz that's where the movie ends.
So the film delivers its extremely negative ending, its predictably negative ending, because we already know in advance how these morose dramas end when a Balkan director is in charge: at least one main character must be killed. Still, Paskaljevic was quite "ambitious" so he wondered if he should kill off all of the main characters in a short period of time, similarly to what occurs in "Taxi Driver".
Generally, Paskaljevic has a habit of killing off the main characters at the end of the film, because I guess the man doesn't have a lot of imagination, so he thinks that only such drastic, overly dramatic endings have enough "cinematic power" to help him get a few more awards at the usual inept European festivals. I suppose he might have learned that from Shakespeare, I really don't know. This is anyway a mega-cliché in Serbian films that the main characters get knocked off at the end, and that nearly always implies, if not outright proves, that the writer was struggling how to end the story. It's just plain laziness.
But hey, Goran Paskaljevic is a nepotist. Why wonder...