Poll: A Serbian Film

[Gigano]

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I challenge you to find a passage in the Old Testament describing brutal rape, incest, murder, paedophilia and necrophilia all in the same context, except as part of a "DON'T FUCKING DO THIS" passage in one of the early law books.

Well, for starters we have Lot offering up his own daughters in Sodom to save some angels - without obtaining their consent that is - and I don't know how there wouldn't have been rampant incest between the immediate descendants of Adam and Eve. This before we reach some of the more juicy stuff such as the genocidal story of the entire population of Earth being drowned except Noa and his family (new rampant incestual repopulation after that I suppose), and the genocidal slaughter of all of the Egyptian firstborns, even the children.

...None of which is really any more commendable or in accordance with inherent human rights and worth than what goes on in this film. Except I challenge you to find where the Old Testament condemns any of it, despite it claiming it all to be real.

Yet in conclusion Ban this sick filth! I don't really see much of a problem with it or its devout fans, at least as long as they don't take those messages of "genocide is OK if (we think) god is OK with it" to heart in their IRL actions and lives. I'm pretty sure they're ultimately ordinary decent people, despite their hardcore taste in literature. Maybe - just maybe - the same could be true for horror/splatter fans?

The Bible is a collection of books describing purportedly real events (both good and bad) of the history of an entire civilisation.

A Serbian Film is a fictional story of a man involved in crimes against humanity for the purpose of... shocking an audience? Plenty of movies have done it. Presenting the message that corpse rape is bad? I fear for the safety of every living being on the planet if you needed a movie to learn that message. Presenting a caricature of what Western audiences believe about other countries? Hostel already did that, and it didn't involve the rape and murder of a child.

...And we should condemn entirely fictional depictions of crimes - which don't encourage what they depict - why?

Sure, they can be distasteful and crude etc. (though they need not be, even when dealing with the darkest of themes), but there's little reason to condemn and fear those who watch them. Much like the controversy on Duke Nukem Forever, there's simply no point that I can see as to why one wouldn't simply live and let live.

 

[SovietSecrets]

I was curious one night and watched A Serbian Film, Aftermath, Martyrs, and Antichrist. All fairly terrible movies that normally no one would go see. Out of all of those I found A Serbian Film to be the worst and seriously dumb. Its just lets take what can freak people out and put it in this. Some scenes are hard to watch, I will give it that, but for the entire hour or so where all the bad things were happening, it was hard not to laugh at some point. The decapitation scene is over fast and just meh, the newborn porn scene is actually kind of freaky, and the ending was pretty bad if that could ever happen. Theres really no sense to this movie and you should only watch out of curiosity. Though if you read the story on Wikipedia and were disgusted and horrified, then don't watch. On the flip side if you read the story and are still curious, then by all means give it a shot. You won't find anything special though.

 

[rokkolpo]

NEVER!

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

No chance I'm seeing that.

You can go ahead and what not, but I shall be avoiding this one.

I'm not a masochist, I've seen the Cinema Snob review, it sounds like a disgusting, horrible-as-fuck movie.

 

[cainx10a]

Nope, never going to touch that with a stick. But definitely enjoying Dog Soldiers atm, kinda want a werewolf pillow now, they look ... so cuddly > . >

 

[Cherry Cola]

I loved that film. It was great.

 

[loc978]

...I could watch it, but have no desire to. Shock-gore-horror bores me.

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

If you'll look at the Diagram below you'll see how the "Human Centipede" also represents the process of getting the movie out in theatres.

If you'll notice the person in front, you'll see that he is the originator of this god-awful movie and basically craps the idea out into the directors and producers (Middle Person). Where upon they ingest and re-digest the already processed fecal matter (Movie Idea) and crap it into the mouths of the audience, I.E. people like you and me. (Last person on the left).

Is it weird to think that those two red lines look like they form the drawing of bacon?

To answer the OP, I doubt I'd ever watch it. Sounds very uninteresting to me.

 

[thylasos]

a) Who would make this?

b) Why in God's name would anyone watch it?

 

[Madara XIII]

If you'll look at the Diagram below you'll see how the "Human Centipede" also represents the process of getting the movie out in theatres.

If you'll notice the person in front, you'll see that he is the originator of this god-awful movie and basically craps the idea out into the directors and producers (Middle Person). Where upon they ingest and re-digest the already processed fecal matter (Movie Idea) and crap it into the mouths of the audience, I.E. people like you and me. (Last person on the left).

Is it weird to think that those two red lines look like they form the drawing of bacon?

To answer the OP, I doubt I'd ever watch it. Sounds very uninteresting to me.

To answer your question. No, it's not weird. I was waiting for someone to notice the Bacon resemblence as well XD

Hehehe good eye sir.

 

[A.A.K]

Ask Kasurami . He drools over it.

Me personally? It was boring as fuck.

'Fuck' being the operative word.

Well, it can't be any worse than Saló, or 120 days of sodom. And if you don't know what that is, have fun finding out!

Ya....I saw Salo a couple of nights ago. Honestly, aside from one scene (Ill give you a clue - EAATTT!!!), Salo didnt shock or disturb or have any affect. It wasn't exactly my ideal film choice though.