Klip

I have just returned from cinema and I am very pleased with this movie. It's fresh, it's bold, it's contemporary and it's believable. The young cast and the young director have made a wonderful debut.

Some people left the screening obviously shocked by the explicitness of the sex scenes, but a lot more understood that we cannot avoid sex as a sort of human interaction and communication. Things that happen in bed are indicators of the quality of a relationship.

Frustration and passion of the young generation, living in bleak and volatile conditions of the 21. century world shaken by both material crisis and spiritual crisis, are the key elements of this movie.

The realism of explicit sex scenes and violent party scenes is what makes this movie a Serbian version of the cult movie Kids (1995) and the energy of the characters resembles the TV series Skins (2007).

the main premise of the movie is to give a brutal insight into the everyday life of the Serbian youth through the eyes of a coming-of-age girl entering the adult (sex) life.

there is not much of a plot, and development of the characters is shallow. it seems that the main concern for the author is to shock and provoke the audience through the scenes of underage explicit eroticism. it's a shame the move hasn't went further with the story, and stops the half way compared to the likes of "kids (1995)". it more follows the pattern of the recent series of Serbian movies: "a Serbian movie", "the life and death of a porno gang"...

Lacking both plot or character development of any sort, Klip presents director Maja Milos' trying to give us a brutal insight into the lives of Serbian youth through a young & troubled teenager named Jasna who likes recording the world around her on her cellphone. Her family life is a mess since her father is dying of a terminal illness while her mother isn't prepared to deal with all of this. Jasna also has a crush on a hooligan who, after getting to know that she will do anything for him, starts taking advantage of her sexually without reciprocating towards her feelings. Throughout the 90 minutes, all we see here is the self-destruction journey that Jasna is on, the drastic measures she takes to fill the emptiness in her life & how little self-respect she has for herself.

I won't blame the director's intent here to present a nihilistic view of a part of today's young generation but the execution is terrible. There is no scene present in the film where we can connect for once with any of the character & near the end when the film tries to do that, it's already too late as we don't care anymore about anyone. The direction isn't that bad, Isidora Simijonovic is fine as Jasna, camera-work is amateur but still passable but the plot & script is just as shallow as its characters. The sex scenes are explicit for no reason whatsoever except for shock value, the pacing is so bad that 100 minutes feel like 3 hours and the rest of the cast is plain dumb.

On an overall scale, Klip had the potential to be an emotionally scarring feature but turned out to be nothing like that. Whatever is thrown in the film to move us, that ill father plot line for example, never really works out. There are glimpses of what it wants to say through those aggressive & reckless attitude of today's teens but it's not done properly. And the film as a whole is so badly scattered into fragments that we don't even feel like putting it all together to make any sense. A waste of your time & money, Klip is a motion picture that goes way too awry in trying to capture whatever it wanted to say or depict. Recommendation? Skip it.

Emphasised too much on sexual scenes. No good storyline. No conclusion drawn. But the concept could be exploited in a tragic dramatic way.

Don't spend time on this movie, it is depressingly depressing and leads to nothing. It is about adolescents without future in a derelict suburb in Serbia. These young people apparently were not guided in there change-over from child-play to sex-driven behavior, they are now at. They show no restraint at all. The film ends how it started, it is an empty container. There is another reason why this movie is to be avoided. If a character is sad, the actor needs not to be, he acts as if he is sad. If character is happy, the actor acts as if he is happy, he needs not to be. If a character has sex, the actor acts as if he has sex. You feel where this went wrong. The actors, minors, indulge way to much in sex, explicit sex. And although the credits say prosthetics where used, it is obvious this movie crossed the line between a play and pornography. And that is more than sad, considering that the leading part is played by a girl of only 14 years old. You could just as well say this movie borders on child abuse.