Boj na poziralniku

So here is a movie made after a particularly nonsensical novel which may or may not be a critique of a stupid mentality of resentment - I cannot decide whether it is a satire trying to criticize the self destructive attitude represented by the characters or if one is supposed to feel sympathy for the characters. Either way the movie fails at both. Characters appear to be driven by nothing but their stubbornness which is lacking in situational awareness and which finds nothing but obstacles on its path while not searching for a way out. The characters rather hate everybody and even themselves as they turn to increasingly insane self-destructive escapades while blaming everyone for their situation. It is a cold world they live in but unfortunately I get the feeling that the viewer is supposed to symphatize with their plight. This would be OK if it was presented as a real plight towards freedom and towards the ability to sustain themselves. But it comes off as something completely different.

It does not help that the film is devoid of any visual logic and the sense of continuity is lost between the shots and the scenes. No grand narrative comes out of it except scenes which have no interior connection to each other. It is like watching random clips of people doing stupid actions - one after another - but without revealing the source which drives them. The only thing the film is left with is a sense of desperation and hate. But even so the actions and the shots are staged in such an absurd way that one can only laugh at the silliness of it.

So a word of advice - if you want to explore Slovenian cinema and see the high rating that this film has please do not trust it. It really is badly made on all levels and is rated as high because some teachers of Slovenian language ( who cannot separate a book from a film ) like the movie as the novel it is based on is in the official curriculum.