Usekovanje

The film "Uskeovanje" is a movie that spiritually gave me the strength to stop believing in new Serbian films. In general, "Usekovanje" is a film that exists and cannot be erased from history, but it can be erased from human brains, because the film is at an extreme level of flatness and forgettable. This movie is so flat, like that line on the machine when the patient's heart stops beating. The characters are sickeningly boring, and they spread that boredom throughout the film like some kind of virus, Corona virus... Every member at the table has some problem, which no body goves a carrot to get attached to, especially not the audience, because they are all empty with a backstory and they are not developed during the film, not even the main character. An exception is an Indianac whose backstory was mentioned during the conversation at the table, and after 3 years of addiction treatment he returned to be put in an unpleasant cage with his ex-wife. Simply unoriginal, pathetic and uninteresting. The film is transparent in every possible aspect, you can even see through the window the laziness of one screenwriter that he cannot get up from the heated chair to pop more popcorn in order to continue watching the movie "The Room" for an even better experience. Overall, this movie looks like someone took and filmed the most boring slava in history. Bro, the footage from my 4th birthday blowing out the candles is more interesting than this failed attempt for the film. I'm just sorry St. Jovan, who is watching and crying from the heavens, what kind of addicting movie they made, which is named after his slava. It should have been called "Drugs on an Average Slava day". I am most honestly worried about our country people, because this film won 5 awards and people gave 10s for this film. But Mix, you don't understand the essence of this film, Bogdan's dilemmas in life, how he takes drugs and connections with aliens... Everything is clear to me, especially that this film is a mprel to the last limit of reality, I will even say that this film is worse than "Munje!" Sooo STHU!!! There was only one scene that gave me chills a little with discomfort, and that was the last scene, when all the emotions came out. As for the acting, only in that scene was slightly better than the rest of the content, because this boring film limited them with boring actions and did not require any effort from them in acting (Except for the older brother, who left the big fard in toilet from his straining effort from acting). Did the movie have any point or lesson, yes, but I think it's more worthwhile for me to tell you about it in one sentence than to waste 2 hours of your precious time on this garbage, which reads: "Don't do drugs, believe in yourself, respect others and your family, and if you have a problem, feel free to speak with them, don't be shy". Raiting 2 for 2 hours of wasted time. The biggest problem this movie has, in addition to everything else mentioned above, is the duration. Before this film, the director filmed short films that lasted about 20 minutes, which does not distinguish him from this "long" film, because it could have lasted half an hour, more than the average. There are loads of unnecessary fillers, unnecessary scenes, characters, chapters, lighting, frames... Speaking of this dude, we must also mention the cringe shots and quite a bit of mid direction. The man let the movie languish in boredom, and as far as sad camera moves go, this movie had more zooms than a single tense scene in an Indian series. So let's continue with the nonsensical chapters, which I think are the most painful thing about this film when it is shown on the screen. The chapter is "We all grow old ugly", they talk about some nonsense at the table and some character matches his sentence with the title of the chapter and says: "We all grow old ugly" and that's all... This film needs to learn somethings from film "Ekipa", which did a job 10 times better in terms of chapters compared to this morbid film. Music is also cringe. Pleasant to the ears, but not pleasant when they repeat the same melody 50 times in one movie. How did they make it? They paid some violinist at Knez Mihailova to play them a tune for 30 euros, or they downloaded that clip from YouTube. Basically that's it, I can't write anymore about why this movie is as bad and stale as the noodles I ate while watching this movie. Btw, I didn't know this movie was set in the same universe as "When I Grow Up I'll Be a Kangaroo" XD.

So many different characters with so many different issues, yet they are all a family in one way or another. It is a common representation of not only Serbian but Balkan families as well and "slava" is just used as a tool to bring all these characters to the table.

While we are all at this very table, it is never boring which is very important for a debut director to do. A Serbian film that is finally using a camera and not only leaving it to stay on the side and do nothing. There are some "cringy" camera movements like the whip pan that is used in a weird moment and don't bring anything major to the storytelling but confusion, however, I recognize the will of doing something in such a small and closed space.

Great acting from the whole cast, so just another prop to the director and the screenwriter for making the dialogue emotional and entertaining.

Overall the film is deep and has a message, it resolves some issues (reconciliation), some issues need resolving through tough decisions that just NEED to happen (that's life), but also gives us hope, which is very important.

The only problem I have with the film is that it is too long and gets boring at almost the very end, so it should've ended sooner.

I don't like using big words to describe movies. But this doesn't have a single unnecessary thing in 120 minutes of a one-day pandemic portrait of the Serbian family who is celebrating Slava (St. Patron's Day). I don't remember such a good debut and highly believe this film is going to be one of the generation's favourite for the next decade.

Superb acting by Pavle Mensur. Perfectly fitted sarcasm and daily life humour. It's a film about loneliness and misunderstanding. It will make you chuckle, laugh and cry.

Foreign viewers will understand Serbs better; domestic ones will realise there are many families like theirs.

I liked the movie so much that while watching it I thought I wish I could watch this movie for the first time again.

It evoked strong emotions in me, I laughed, I cried and it gave me mixed emotions throughout the film, but the most important in the end it gave me hope.

I felt like my generarion really needed this.

The whole cast was amazing, great acting from all.

I loved all the characters in the movie and could understand the point of view of all of them.

Overall the movie is deep and has a strong message.

I give 9 just because of the ending which I didn't like, but I can see why they ended it like that.

I want to congratulate young Sinisa Cvetic and all included for making this fantastic masterpiece.