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I didn't think this film was sick, but rather sad... Masked spoilers


Indeed, all along, we are made to side with the main character, Milos, who fights and expresses digust towards all the practices that are wrong.
The ones that praise those practices are only the movie makers, and the brother, who are all shown as creepy, crazy, nasty, evil, etc. characters.

It's not as if this film had shown any of these practices in a positive light, on the contrary, even using drugs to justify why Milos would indeed engage into them.

To me, what that says is that even someone who'd have low boundaries regarding sex such as a former porn star, won't find such practices acceptable, so if such a character won't accept it, no person with regular, legal sexual interests will.

I don't want to go into the whole idea that this is a representation of whatever political situation, I don't care about it, I'm not looking for a justification to making or watching that movie.

I just came out of this film really sad, and of course hoping I wouldn't have some of those scenes come into my nightmares, really, I hoped (and still do) these pictures didn't inprint themselves in my brain.

But as regards the consciencious part of me, I could really relate to Milos and the feelings of loss, betrayal, and hopelessness.
I felt that this was tragic, someone who sees everything he has ripped away in the most violent way.
We're all bound to lose everything we love and have, but it usually occurs in a much more attenuated pace in life, and when we think of the losses we experience through the deaths of our loved ones, even through sickness, which enables us to set things in order and say our goodbyes before they die, we still hurt.

So having all that crap hit you repeatedly harder and harder would probably break anyone.

All in all, I mostly saw this movie as the story of someone who loses everything he has, loves, and believes in. To the point where suicide becomes the most appealing way to escape and end this unbearable aching.

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I couldn't agree more. There were many fucked-up scenes throughout, but the whole thing just made me more sad than anything else.
When we first find out that he was drugged, when he beheads the woman while fucking her, I was already thinking, "Man, I would not blame this guy if he killed himself after all of this. I'm sure I would."
And that was before everything else happened...

Also, I had assumed that the two bodies on the bed were the old lady and the young girl that we'd just seen, so that horrific realization (and seeing the guy's reaction) was absolutely heartbreaking.

By the end I was like, "Thank sh!t that he put them all out of their misery!".
But then there was that last bit...

Yeah, definitely the saddest movie I've seen lately.
And I'm also hoping I don't have nightmares. Might have to watch "Barney" before bed lol

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Family film.

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