Highly Overrated But Still Good

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Blistering performances.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Don't spend time on this movie, it is depressingly depressing and leads to nothing. It is about adolescents without future in a derelict suburb in Serbia. These young people apparently were not guided in there change-over from child-play to sex-driven behavior, they are now at. They show no restraint at all. The film ends how it started, it is an empty container. There is another reason why this movie is to be avoided. If a character is sad, the actor needs not to be, he acts as if he is said. If character is happy, the actor acts as if he is happy, he needs not to be. If a character has sex, the actor acts as if he has sex. You feel where this went wrong. The actors, minors, indulge way to much in sex, explicit sex. And although the credits say prosthetics where used, it is obvious this movie crossed the line between a play and pornography. And that is more than sad, considering that the leading part is played by a girl of only 14 years old. You could just as well say this movie borders on child abuse.

I happened to watch this film 2 years back, when it was released actually. I was really eager to watch this one as it was attracting a huge controversy over graphically explicit sex scenes throughout. I watched it and honestly, I was not shocked or surprised or to say the least, even remotely impressed. The lead character, Jasna, the troubled teenage girl is awfully harsh to her family, not even a bit of empathy has been shown to her character. She barely talks to her diseased father, sometimes she just looks at him with disgust. Jasna never cares about how much her mother is working day and night to provide for the family, the ill father and a sister that Jasna has no bond with. On the other hand, this same apathetic teen has been doing everything in her ability to impress a senior student, a school bully, Djole. She is humiliating herself sexually and trying every path to seduce Djole and present herself as the trophy girlfriend to him. Jasna and her friends throw themselves to whole night parties, drugs, alcohol and sex. She does everything her so called boyfriend Djole asks her to, which is strictly restricted to sexual favours only. So seriously, how does one relate to this film? What is really so shocking about this drama? I simply dumped the film. 2 years later I watched it once again. Surprisingly this time, I felt I could connect with it. So I watched it three more times at the go. This film is not as empty as I initially thought it to be! I could feel what Jasna feels. I now understand why is she so apathetic towards her family. Why is she so after the dude who is simply using her and trashing her. She feels. She feels much more than her family members do. She cares, she just do not know how to deal with the never ending loop of struggle, pain and hopelessness. She does everything to escape from her reality that is excruciating to her. And as a mean of escaping from the bluntly harsh reality, she throws herself to a life of sex and drugs where she thinks she would forget about the reality. She imprisons herself inside the wall she creates for herself in her mobile phone, by recording videos of whatever that is happening around and specially when she is involving in sex acts. That is her relief. (Although at end we see that may be Jasna and Djole do have genuine feelings for each other). Majority of the viewers may not agree with me on this, but I somehow find this movie very deep, emotionally raw and extremely unstable when it comes to mental health. Despite the sexual content and always partying teens, this film is seriously depressing. And Isidora Simijonovic is flawless in her part portraying 'Jasna'. She has certainly made a mark.

As opposed to scores that you see, this film is a great piece of cinema.I guess that such a low scoring may be a result of two kinds of misunderstanding. First being the lack of knowledge, or lack of interest in Serbian mass-culture after the fall of the Berlin wall. Second, more profound one, could be being caught in the whirlpool of that culture, and not seeing it for what it really is.Although tempted, I will say nothing more, in order not to spoil your viewing.You should see this film. I delayed it for a long time, but when I finally saw it, I was very much thrilled.

This movie will make a lot of sense to people who live in the Balkan region or former YU countries, much more then in Europe. If you've seen Kids(1995), well this is the Balkan version of it, today.The story follows a group of kids and their every day life in and outside of high school and their many encounters with sex, drugs and alcohol. The detachment from parents, life in poverty, without love is all what creates this way of life. It shows us the inside of something that we might deny existing but is there and is so close to us but we just keep ignoring it. Everything I've seen in this movie, I've heard from friends, seen it myself and its all true. Kids going to clubs underage, buying alcohol, stealing, smoking, dressing like prostitutes... Biggest problem for the viewers will be the fact that they haven't met a group of kids like this, and they will refuse to believe that this is a possible scenario in life. Kids who are their age who went to a slightly different high school will say also that this is not true but as soon as you leave the urban city area, or high schools which are "elitist" you'll find much more and much worse. "Clip" should serve us as a warning, is here to educate us, show us how bad things can get, are, and unless we take our blindfolds off its only going to get worse.Once again, you might think this is fiction but is as true as it gets.