20 Jan 2017

PROVOCATION, BALKAN STYLE



Balkan is a place of prejudice, intolerance and hatred since the dawn of the time and it will continue to be just that for many decades to come. Hence, most of the dramas originating from southeastern Europe tend to drown in the overall sense of helplessness and futility of the grim reality.

Rajko Grlic offers something a little bit different, mixing the heavy drama layout of a Croat fascist offspring homosexual being beaten in his own town with some brutal dark humor of the forced relationship with his Serbian neighbors. Although very painful to watch if you are born in Serbia and Croatia, the script will make you laugh, think and process the dark subjets it ruthelessly tackles. Much of that will be made possible via magnificent role of Nebojsa Glogovac and his ability to swap identities in a blink of an eye. Symbolism will be very strong throughout the entire course of the movie, one of the strongest in decades from the entire cinematographic region.

However, the sheer amount of provocations will engulf the storyline from time to time, diminishing their effect to some extent. Also, the main parallel with the theory of the Croatian constitution will be just too artificial if you are a Balkan born.

„The Constitution” is one of the rare cinematographic examples that deserves a „roaming” to the European public.






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