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The Worst Film Ever

Such a frustrating disappointment

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

This is one excellent movie. It is close to a real life story as a movie could be. It is a movie for a young man, not only returning his memories, but growing up to a man, what man should be. It is also e movie for one old man fighting may be the last of his many battles to help another human being not only to get up on his feet but even to run. With this movie you not only learn historical facts from the 80s for this part of the world and also learn many customs and life approaches to compare between central Europeans and Bulgarians. But what it from this film for me is its liars. You can dig through them and find more and more beautiful allegories and messages. It is a beautiful picture for your eyes, good things to think about and good life stories to cry about.

Okay, so let me begin by saying this. I've probably given far worse titles a 5/10, but I couldn't give a higher rating here.The World is Big is a good movie, just not as good as it think it is. It's short of greatness by its own desire to get everything right: it wanted to achieve political, familiar, historical, emotional, and generational resonance. In the end you're left feeling manipulated by an average product that could've been so much better but falls short.The flashback story is perhaps the best part of the movie, definitely the one that flows more naturally. It's gripping and bittersweet even when flawed or unnecessarily cliché in some parts.The present day is the weakest hands down. Everything about it is so saccharine and superficial you just can't take it seriously. And don't take me wrong, I have no problems with happy endings, I just don't like feeling like I'm watching a folksy love song's MV.And don't get me started on the shoehorned love story. It makes me cry. Of anger.

Pros: Very natural film. Very good reproduction of the communist Bulgaria and the lives of people who tried to survive that time outside and inside Bulgaria. The emotions go through the whole film without breaks. Excellent acting, excellent cinematography by inter-twisting the past and the present without losing the pace of emotions. Very simple and strong plot. Another confirmation that the perfection is actually in simplicity.Cons: One mark on the leading actor Carlo Ljubec...his accent made it difficult to go deep in the role. As if he was struggling with speaking out his lines in Bulgarian which was not an advantage but Miki Manolovic play was so strong that balanced this.

I just saw "Eastern plays" (also Bulgarian movie) and was really disappointed and gave it really bad comment. But, this movie is even worse. It is just terrible copy of some Kusturica works, mixed with completely naive direction. I don't know if this director ever saw any movie that is done in 21st century. It is full of big words, fake artism and - well, maybe I am stupid, but this movie is about nothing. Movie is so pretentious, making audience burst into laughter aloud. Almost all the shots, dialogue, scenes were seen at least billion times in other, better movies. I can not believe somebody takes this movie serious. I saw the list of awards this movie received - and I just don't know what the other movies competing with this one were like. Anyway, I don't want to be a bore - skip this movie, you will save some money and more important, some time.