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This show is an extended version of a feature film with the same name. Promoting and distributing movies in such a way is something of a tradition in Serbian cinema...

The trailer might make you believe Golden Boy populates the same universe as South Wind (Juzni vetar) from 2018, yet this is misleading. The authors made a smart choice by making Golden Boy more of a drama and less of a crime thriller.

In fact they've toned down everything, including violence, and focused on the characters and their interactions. The flipside is that there will be a few true surprises, even at the very end of the show.

But I'm getting too critical. Golden Boy is on par with average Netflix of Amazon Prime production, presumably on a fraction of the budget. It purports to be based on true events and judging by the end product it's not far removed from reality.

And here's some trivia. Some members of the legendary hip hop outfit from Belgrade Serbia, Beogradski sindikat, may be seen in the show. This shouldn't come as a surprise since the director is a member, as well.

The best thing about The Dirt is the performance of Colson Baker AKA Machine Gun Kelly as Tommy Lee. He is trying to put his talents to good use and I hope we'll see more of him on screen.

If you're a fan of Mötley Crüe, The Dirt is exactly what you want to see. But if you're, like myself, untouched by their output, you might as well perceive The Dirt as, to paraphrase a sentence from the beginning of the movie, the adventures of a gang of idiots.

Mind you, they were all musically gifted and were successful in a line of work that is difficult and, more often than not, unrewarding. In fact, I must give the authors the credit for the honesty. Sex, drugs and Rock'n'roll is a hard road to tread. And a fraction of those who choose it end at the same level of success and fame as Mötley Crüe.

A lot of contemporary movies with artistic ambition have a slow pace to add to their atmosphere. And this usually creates the opposite effect with me: I either reach for the fast-forward button on my remote or simply stop watching them.

The Stranger, however, is one of the rare movies where the slow pacing is the right choice. The whole operation surrounding the case described here was a long process, almost a game of chess which should force the antagonist to make the wrong move.

And when I understood this is based on a true story, everything clicked into place. This indeed is a tough story.