Panama

Jovan is an architecture student at university. He doesn't believe in monogamy, instead just having one-night stands and multiple short- term relationships. His view is reinforced and encouraged by his friend, Milan, who is even more free-wheeling than him. They even have a monthly game, the winner being the one who has the most sexual encounters. Then Jovan meets Maja. They are attracted to each other and start sleeping together. Jovan makes it clear from the start that he believes in an open relationship, and Maja is fine with that. However, while he is free to see other women, he starts to suspect that Maja is seeing other men, gets jealous and starts cyber-stalking her. After a while he discovers that he loves her and starts to see her exclusively. Will the relationship survive his jealousy, paranoia and obsessiveness?

An interesting examination of relationships, particularly among young adults, in an age of social media, pornography, instant satisfaction and non-commitment. Also looks at darker issues, especially jealousy and obsession.

Some interesting twists in the tale. At many points in the story the relationship can go in many directions, and a word or action here or there can change everything.

Good, but not great. The characters are a bit too one-dimensional, and I was expecting something more dramatic towards the end. Ending, while poetic, feels too vague.

Jovan (Slaven Doslo) and Maja (Jovana Stojiljkovic) are in an open relationship - the starting point. And then what happens is that standard - she falls in love with him, but he also in it, although he will not confess to himself. After all, Jovan acknowledges that he is in love with Maja and one, one might say, a self-confident guy becomes a person who drinks the ground beneath his feet. He becomes someone who keeps the girl.

Sex in this movie is over. The actors are Maja and Jovan. Sex is passionate, dirty and convincingly portrayed.

The film has imposed several topics in the story, without further elaboration of the same and without adequate answers. At the same time,films unnecessarily burden scenes that have no significance. For example, for several minutes, Jovan was at dinner with another girl. She was also the parents of that girl. There's also Jovan's faculty professor who just disappeared from the film without explanation.

In the end, praise deserves the main actors, young actors Slaven Doslo and Jovana Stojiljkovic. Slaven played a very successful role. Particularly expired in moments of paranoia. Jovann was exceptional. In many situations her face spoke more than every word. Scenes of sex played at an enviable level.

This movie can not give a higher score than 6. Simply, there are too many defects and inconsistencies. The mentioned actors have drawn this score.

Milan (Milos Pjevac) wages periodic bets with his buddy Jovan ((Slaven Doslo) to see how many sexual conquest they can acquire in short periods of time. However when he meets Maja (Jovana Stojiljkovic) what originally begins as another score for Jovan, after several heavy sexual encounters, suddenly his conquest turns into an "open relationship". Maja accepts his conditions, but it seems Jovan has problems dealing with his own rules as he becomes obsessed with Maja's every move on social media.

Obsession leads to jealousy and to Jovan attempts to try to re-categorize his relationship with Maja as he follows her every move. Jovan find it increasingly difficult to deal with his own rules he implemented in the relationship causing Maja to denounce his contemptuous treatment of her on several occasions. His temper progressively turns volatile and his feelings for Maja makes Jovan paranoid that everyone in her surroundings is either a culprit in hiding the affairs he thinks she's having or they are having an affair with her themselves.

This situation becomes unbearable for Maja and it does turn Jovan into a walking mess as he's unable find answers amidst his continuous accusations of Maja's infidelities. There is something to be said about Jovan's allegations, for Maja's demeanor is very withholding and vague towards Jovan's claims, giving him more ammunition to doubt her credibility. His increasingly paranoid scenarios regarding Majas affairs with whomever may be chummy with her on her social media leads Jovan to a borderline nervous breakdown. A once carefree player is now on the other side of his game, and the results take a toll on his daily existence for he trails and follows Maja's every move online with unconvincing results. The intelligence of "Panama" comes as a result of the way the social media information is gathered by Jovac and the way it makes him borderline manic, as he strategizes how to conduct his surveillance of Maja to mixed results and to the detriment to his relationship with her.

The Panama connection becomes apparent as Jovac is lead to believe that Maja has departed to Panama under mysterious circumstances never to be seen again, or did she?. A riveting cause and effect tale, all the subplots of Majas whereabout tie in nicely with the progressively self destructive behavior of Jovan. Jovan's obsession is acquired as a results of his apparent self projecting insecurities of Maja due to the standards and lifestyle he lives by.

The film's beautifully crafted explicit sex scenes complements the story visually as it tacitly explains a darker addiction to pornography & social media. The radical changes that leads the Jovan into a tailspin of self deception grows in apparent misplaced distrust of his friends and surroundings.

Panama is a very thought provoking film as it begs to question the role social media is having on relationships and how misplaced trust in this media can prove destructive if not checked against reality.

Movie is good but i didnt understand the ending .

its about a couple having open relationship, even the movie confuse sometimes concept of open relationship + love + jealousy + social media frustration .

by the way , that russian or serbian girl jovan is soo hot n pretty. guy shoulda treat her like a princess but he was obsessed with her relationship.

anyhow this movie is also about never ever trust or go way behind using social media. he was keep tracking and FEELING Or THINKING that she is with someone else , which is all in his mind or maybe the movie doesn't show much.

in last, Open relationship or open marriage never ever works. no matter how much honest are partner with each other.

A film about an open relationship and one losing it in the way to find himself trapped inside filled with jealousy. Really a great idea, I have seen similar films from the European and Hollywood, but this one had potential to be different and it could not. It is very confusing. Not just for the viewers, seems even the writers did not know how to end the tale after great initiation. Actually, I was not expecting any clever twist towards the end, but this story failed to deliver even a normal ending. So I'm very disappointed with how it finishes it off without proper reasoning.

The title was a mislead. You have to wait till the finale to understand it, it was also not that effective. The story was, actually there's nothing, or maybe you can say it's a one liner. When two young people make a deal to keep their relationship open, one could not cope with it after some time together and that brings the mistrust, eventually doubts arise on what kind of affair they are having. At some point it could get ugly, but what stops them, especially the future of them decided in the final segment of the tale.

So I kind of liked the first half, the real problem was the following half. I know the film character had confused over something, but why should the filmmaker confuse us as well. Should have detailed that part to come out clear. Though it was different, and still not the best solution for a tale like this. The actors were good, and decently made film, I mean the production, which I think is okay for a watch, yet it is not for everybody. Particularly for having the adult contents, it suits better for the grown ups.

4/10