LIKE NOTHING THAT YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE
You had better believe the hype on the sleeve as this brilliant film from Serbia crosses boundaries never before seen on film.The nudity and hardcore sex is unexciting due to the overweight and not good looking cast members involved. It must be the first time that beastiality is seen in a mainstream film.Horrors of graphic decapitations in the war scenes may make some viewers look away.There is plenty of humor in this very unusual film about a group of people making a porn film.I was tempted to give it a rating of 5 stars but there were some problems with the bluray disc. The controversial reversible sleeve cover is the same as the non -controversial one .It is said to be a SPECIAL EDITION....for what I do not know. There is a very dreary full length making of documentary and the deleted and extended scenes do not appear on the bluray despite being on the menu.I am waiting for a reply from the distributor regarding this. Worst of all are the English...
Not quite as haunting or as powerful as A SERBIAN FILM, but a shattering experience none the less.
The Life and Death of a Porno Gang is an undeniably powerful, funny, and hard hitting film that is sure to shake people up quite a bit. It's one of the more surprising films I've seen this year, and, quite honestly, it's one that I think most definitely deserves to be seen. It was made at about the same time as A Serbian Film was and is often compared to it. Honestly, I think the two films are actually very comparable in a lot of ways and they both are essentially saying the same thing, but they both have very different approaches. Lets get what they have in common out of the way first. They are both about pornography and snuff films. They are both are pessimistic and angry films. Both films have an industrial tone and music score and they both feature obscene content. Both of the films explore human corruption. The most important thing that they have in common, however, is that they both have a passionate filmmaker character in them that is willing to transgress morality for the sake...
Mediocre...
I had heard that Life and Death of a Porno Gang was as disturbing and controversial as a Serbian Film, except there was more humor and the characters were more likable and relatable. After watching it, I disagree. I did not find the characters relatable and found the movie to be pretty boring overall. I sympathized more with the characters in a Serbian Film, and I thought a Serbian Film was better paced and more sinister. As far as disturbing and controverisal...yes there is homosexual sex but that's barely of note as far as controversy; I've seen that in a mainstream drama and in the Spartacus series. The only thing I found notably unsettling was a very jarring decapitation scene, which was a video within the movie and did not involve any of the characters. I can't say anything very good about the movie.
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