Rane

It's a shame there is no U.S. distribution yet. I got a chance to see this film at the SF film fest and it was brilliant. It definitely has some elements of Scarface along with a coming of age story of a boy in a war torn country. This film Rules!

This film was my first exposure to life in Serbia – to life on a battlefield – after society and its rules have deteriorated to dust. Right and wrong yield to anarchy and savagery. It reminded me of William Golding's Lord of the Flies. At the end of the day, under the right circumstances, base human behaviors creep out. Morality comes from our environment. When civilization standards fall, values are lost. Citizens will degrade their fellow citizens to improve their own security, doing whatever they have to do. In Wounds, the surviving behavior emerges in the celebrated lifestyle of a gangster.

Pinki's narration is straight from the gut. He's 20 something at the end, and thinks of himself as an old man. The way he and kraut do the things they do, you just know they could get away with it.

It's a well told, thoroughly enjoyable Tour d'anarchy. Gruesome but real. 8.5 / 10.0

Actually it makes me feel sick, because it is so true.Man it really was like that.So now it's too painful to watch it.The life in Serbia isn't brilliant now, but I'm glad to see that the age from the movie is gone, and gone!Just to say that advertising of Rane was forbidden by "Milosevic TV"(RTS), and what an irony they had invested in the film. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to see how much of the crap hole life can be!

One of those in UR face, intense, violent pieces that U won't soon forget...tells the story of three youths and how their lives are shaped by their war-torn surroundings...never had any idea that this movie was going to be so RAW...whoa...a cross between "Natural Born Killers" and "Scarface"...

This is the best gangster movie I saw since Scarface. It tells the story of two teenagers growing up in the anarchy of the post Berlin wall Eastern Europe. The movie's narration is so slick that it only proves that Dragojevic(Preety Villages, Preety Flames) is one of the best European directors.