Jasna, a beautiful teenager, leads a crude life in post-war Serbia. She goes on a spree of sex, drugs and partying until she finds love and tenderness in a harsh environment.
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I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
...if you haven't spent some time in the outskirts of Beograd this movie might not make a lot of sense. I can't say I liked it; I didn't, really, I don't agree with movies that try to 'show reality', I don't think that's what movies are designed to do, but that aside, I think this movie gets a lot correct in its depiction of what passes for youth life in modern Serbia.Since this movie makes claims on 'reality', I'll weigh in on that.This is a place where middle-aged people with advanced degrees work at outsourced call centers for USD$400 a month; one girl I talked to, who spoke perfect English and had a BA, revealed her income, working at a cafe where I had coffee each morning, was USD$210 a month; and these are considered decent-enough jobs that one is lucky to have. There are tons of working-class type kids with, literally, nothing to do and nowhere to go. So this movie shouldn't be too surprising. I told the cafe girl what I did (blue-collar material handler) and, since she asked, how much my income was, and it put her into a frantic, depressed, desperate funk for the entire time I was there. I felt really bad. Shouldn't have done that. But she asked.A couple of things, about the movie itself: Serbia is a strongly patriarchal culture, and I've seen women, daughters, go really, truly crazy at the loss of their fathers. Just lose their s*** completely. In KLIP we see the illness of the protagonists father, and if you know the cultural background, this girl going bats isn't a shock. She flails around looking for some strong, authoritarian figure as a (very bad) replacement. The ending made total sense to me. In the USA this would be called 'Daddy Issues' and be regarded as a kind of disorder, but in Serbia it's just something that can, and does, happen in the usual scheme of things: 'Lost her dad, went crazy' (shrug).In a somewhat vulgar comment, and in kind of answer to reviews who describe the lead as 'beautiful', well, by Beograd standards she's actually kind of only maybe slightly above average for what is conventionally regarded as beauty. The place is like some bizarre science fiction experiment in genetically engineered women. It's nuts. Armies of 6-foot-tall supermodels strutting around. I usually go out to Zemun so I can see fat people and un-made-up women in sweatpants just to feel normal. So, KLIP might be a bit exaggerated, but likely not by much. Can't say I liked it, but it's worth watching once.
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.
This was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It's all about sex obsessed girl and her boyfriend having sex, drink and take cocaine on turbo folk parties all the time. Is this worth watching? I don't think so. By the way, she has very ill father and concerned mother but she doesn't give a damn about that. This movie shows how sick society is described in this movie. Why did director do so? Why did those kids do so? Are they sick as well? Those sex scenes were doing with actors who are main protagonists in this movie and they are under age. It's totally lie written in the end that director employed adult actors to do it. If you look it carefully you'll be convinced as well. Execution was awful. There is no any plot here except stupid kids who are thinking that they are adults and can do whatever they want no matter the consequences. If director tried to change a point of view about harsh times of the teenage subculture with more spoken words and less of those sex scenes, this movie could've been better. After all this is just a sickness without any substance. Just skip it and watch something else.
I'm surprised that this simple message director was trying to send didn't manage to reach people. The movie shows lives in suburbs of Belgrade, people trying to survive poverty and illness and teenagers dealing with current situation without any adult they can rely on. Haven't been able to express their emotions in the right way, they're trying to do so trough sex, violence and turbo folk music. Lack of character and plot development, also carries certain message. Shallow character in the movie is also shallow person in the real life. My personal opinion is that director's primer goal wasn't to shock audience and that explicit sex scenes couldn't be left out. The viewer's impression just wouldn't be the same. To understand this movie properly, you have to understand current situation Serbia is in. Clip is about decadence of young generations and their struggle to be accepted, to be loved and to be understood in this diseased society.