Review of The Trap

A cornered father with no ability to finance an expensive heart surgery for his dying son commits an unspeakable sin to save his son's life. The film explores the phenomenon of putting a value on life and how that value, as priceless as we may perceive life to be, can be expressed in some currency. It also addresses the issues of social inequality and addresses a very real problem with health care in Serbia. Having grown up in the region I can tell you that advertising in the newspapers in search for hope in a foreign hospital is very common. For a family that may only have an income of only a couple of hundred EU per month coming up with the sums required by these foreign hospitals is practically impossible. While people show solidarity and always try to help even when they don't have money, often this help comes too late. This is why the proposition the father gets and the whole story became more believable for me. Vindication is perhaps not a possibility, but could you find another way for him to save his son? After all, what's the value of the life of a "bad" man compared to the one of your innocent child. Ultimately, all parties have different ideas about the value of the lives of Peter or Nemanja, but we are left with the taste of sacrifice, atonement and the fact that some problems simply have no good solution.