I don't care if you think the movie is "cliche riddled". It represents an idea, a society, a culture, a philosophy... You can't do all that with super original characters. It's not about these specific characters, what counts here is the message to us as a society and our choice for our roles in it.
I rarely find movies, which can make me laugh hard and cry my face wet with tears - often at the same time. This one succeeds! I rarely find gay movies which are worth watching - this is not the 10000th drama about the doomed love of two young men. It is so much more than that. I'm saying it as a gay man - I'm sick of boring dramas. Also, this is a movie that is for everyone - not just gays, or heterosexuals, or Serbs/Croatians/Albanians/etc. EVERYONE should see this.
I rarely like movies from the Balkans. Being a Bulgarian, I've seen plenty which are just a waste of time. This is not. This is among the brightest gems that our countries here (we may be different nationalities, but we are the same in the end, as the movie shows) have ever produced.
Of course, the plot is not 100% realistic - the ex-war-enemies come together too easy, they are made too open-minded and accepting, which is not the case. But as I said, here the message counts and it's great and it's given in a splendid way.
I can only home that some day someone from my country produces a movie as good and meaningful as this one. If you are from Eastern Europe - watch this. You already know this world, the movie will simply expand your mind a little more. If you are not from this part of the world - watch it anyway and see how our people think and live and how they deal with gay themes. The characters are clichéd for a purpose - to represent how different ordinary people from the society think and react. In that it succeeds brilliantly.
If not for the meaningful message, watch it for the comedy and the amazing actors. Kudos to everyone involved for acting so well, so humanly and so different from what the communist acting schools have taught us :)
I rarely find movies, which can make me laugh hard and cry my face wet with tears - often at the same time. This one succeeds! I rarely find gay movies which are worth watching - this is not the 10000th drama about the doomed love of two young men. It is so much more than that. I'm saying it as a gay man - I'm sick of boring dramas. Also, this is a movie that is for everyone - not just gays, or heterosexuals, or Serbs/Croatians/Albanians/etc. EVERYONE should see this.
I rarely like movies from the Balkans. Being a Bulgarian, I've seen plenty which are just a waste of time. This is not. This is among the brightest gems that our countries here (we may be different nationalities, but we are the same in the end, as the movie shows) have ever produced.
Of course, the plot is not 100% realistic - the ex-war-enemies come together too easy, they are made too open-minded and accepting, which is not the case. But as I said, here the message counts and it's great and it's given in a splendid way.
I can only home that some day someone from my country produces a movie as good and meaningful as this one. If you are from Eastern Europe - watch this. You already know this world, the movie will simply expand your mind a little more. If you are not from this part of the world - watch it anyway and see how our people think and live and how they deal with gay themes. The characters are clichéd for a purpose - to represent how different ordinary people from the society think and react. In that it succeeds brilliantly.
If not for the meaningful message, watch it for the comedy and the amazing actors. Kudos to everyone involved for acting so well, so humanly and so different from what the communist acting schools have taught us :)