[.ca] The Wounds

Wounds:
I first saw this movie in 1998 in Belgrade. The situation in Belgrade at that time was quite as dark as the movie itself is. The plot is about two boys, growing up during the Milosevic regime in Yugoslavia. It is the time of great disappointment in Serbia; disappointment with the Western world (remember the NATO bombardments in 1999), disappointment with socialism, disappointment with humanity. The kids watch their parents falling from the middle class society into the lower class - a class that did not exist before Milosevic in Serbia. They realize that the only way how to avoid a life in poverty is crime. However, the movie shows how crime had not been condemned but glorified at that time, since gangsters aside politicians formed (form) the upper class in Milosevic's Serbia. Although the movie starts with the words "this movie is dedicated to the 'post-tito generation'", refering to people born after 1980, you will be surprised by the deapth of its meaning. The Wounds is a masterpiece truly worth seeing.

The greatest movie I saw recently!:
The greatest, but it is not for Americans... I am sorry guys, but you are unable to understad the movie. I have read other comments... Well, what can I say, not everybody graduated from a department of slavic studies. If you are looking for a blockbuster of a horror, you have a better option. That is a movie with a deep idea, which is not easy to grasp for people who know everything. Try to guess what they mean with this movie, and do not percieve it literally!!!

Sick, amoral serb kids:
I saw this at the 1999 Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, and it was probably the most riveting and memorable thing I saw there (with the exception of "Buttoners"). We're used to our own amoral, rudderless youth in America, but the dysfunctional families, violence and cruelty set in today's Serbia gives one who has watched Milosevitch and the brutality of 90's Yugoslavia a new and interesting perspective. Both hilarious and shocking, this is a must see (but not at this price, wait awhile).

Off Tha Hook!:
one of the best movies i've ever seen. hardcore, real life, streetz, drugz & thugz.

I liked it a lot, but it's no masterpiece.:
...In my opinion, The Wounds was a powerful, wicked, enjoyable, movie, but in no way a GREAT film. The dark wasn't quite dark enough, the camera work not very impressive (recall when the boys run into their boss's fist-- it never really showed the impact in any convincing way), the acting, while good, was in no way incredible... Recommended, but with reservations.