Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

johntheholder I am into indie films as mainstream ones.Don't get me too wrong.That said , Klopka surely is in indie low budget picture. Mind the " picture " though ... And here lies a question ? Does the quality of the practical , literal picture , frame by frame / photography matter? Does it affect the overall impression and judgement of whether a film is good or bad? For example if one takes a certain story , a particular script , will the film be better if you put in a good cinematography , and worse if you put in a -not so good- cinematography. In my humble opinion , it certainly does. After all , lets all say it once more .. IT IS A VISUAL EXPERIENCE.And so goes down the drain Klopka... Each scene is filmed with a camera. I can say that much. About lighting , scene decoration , vibrant , intense colors and such , there are none. They did shoot the film , you can watch it. Its just that throughout the whole thing , you are thinking its your buddy filming with his home-camera. And it doesn't add the realistic vibe. Its just bad lights , bad photography , nothing to do with realism.So thats one. Two , even if this film had great mainstream photography like a Nolan's film or an Alfonso Cuaron's one , the story isn't good itself.Like i mentioned , its Denzel Washington's "John Q" (2002) that is 5 years earlier ... its the same story , just with a worse photography , and switch the famous actors for unknown Serbian ones. It doesn't offer new insight in the topic. Desperate father has a sick son with a defective heart - goes bad to get the money for the operation.It has some weak improbable points too. This section contains SPOILERS! ----------------------------------------------------For example after confessing the murder to the police , they let him go , showing that the mafia guy has the police boss on his side. Well combining this fact, and then having the mafia guy being broke and owing money with his house almost in ruins ... i wonder , how the hell does he still have the police on his side? -----------------------------------------------------End of SPOILERS!I read good comments over here , and someone did a comparison of this film to the German " The lives of others" . So me , having firm respect for the lives of others , was convinced to see this with an open mind but slightly high expectations , because believe it or not , i am into foreign gems , Korean cinema , french , Italian , Belgian whatever...Well i saw this thing and this is the review. Nothing special , i give it a 5/10 because of the bad photography and strongly because its a story that was made better in a film five years earlier.To be fair , the actors were alright. Nothing great , but nothing bad. It was decent acting.

The Sunworshipper 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.

Tomaas Ekkerr You have to see it through the eyes of transitional society. I guess than, that people from Eastern Europe and Soviet Union don't need this description of "what's going on during post-communism"...For me "Klopka" represents great acted documentary, rather than piece of art...Belgrade is like any other capitol (with over 1,000,000 people) in this world, so the mentality is pretty much the same. You have a lot of problems, a lot of noise, pollution, anger, etc. going on, and all that is speed-ed up with fast forward, which doesn't mean that you can't enjoy other landmarks of the city. Also every large city has ghetto, but in this city it spreads from entrance till the exit, covering 90-95% of the territory. That is life in the transition. A group of people holds fortune, for others there are small paychecks, joblessness, bad surrounding, gangs, etc. all in all, big concrete jungle, and since heart pumps blood, the things are pretty much the same in the rest of the country...In this movie we see an "average" (or if I can call it "middle class") family struggling from day to day, or how we like to call it "surviving till tomorrow". Life is almost exactly the same in every other Serbian family. So each day brings new problems, but this day a big problem knocked on you door and said "Your kid has heart problem, it's serious, he can die any time soon... he's going to need a heart surgery". Surgery usually costs a lot, but in this country, it can't be done, and you haven't earn that much money in the past 5-10 years... facts are facts, get ready, go... what are you going to do? It's all about life value/price, love for your family, love for your child, depression, anger, betrayal, sadness, and everyday transitional life. Crossroads and dead ends everywhere you go, no matter what you do, and you don't have enough time to think about it at all, you must go with the flow... sadly, that's the true face of Serbian reality, and yes!!! the transition is not a boundary, it can happen to me, you, anybody else... the question is how you gonna deal with that?

joelhberg While on line for a film on the opening day (yesterday) of the 2008 Palm Springs International Film Festival, a woman (former film professor) I knew from the previous year's Festival, raved about seeing "The Trap."This morning I saw "The Trap" and was overwhelmed by it. Without question the most riveting film I have EVER seen. The director has perfect pitch: the story, direction, acting, photography, music are truly perfect. It's a tense thriller which addresses many moral questions. In many ways it reminds me of last year's "The Lives of Others." If you liked that movie, this one should definitely be on your must-see list.The audience was stunned at the end of the film and after a flurry of applause, sat silently throughout the end credits.