Excellent but underrated film

A different way of telling a story

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

This was pretty interesting just for the fact that it's Serbian cyberpunk! In 2074, Belgrade. Edit is a really smart but bored young woman who is so bored by her classes she's finding it difficult to pass some really important exams. She's also living a student life with her mom, who resents her, and her father who seems pretty out of it all the time. She also spends her days with an autistic man as her job. When she's not doing that, she's hanging out with her friends. One of the things I didn't like about it was that as with a lot of anime, it over sexualizes Edit incredibly. Basically everyone does, including the autistic kid, her boyfriend, her friends, the scientist. It really detracts from the story, for me. After the film sufficiently shows edit is a victim of the system, who never feels satisfied with her purpose in life and her boyfriend just wants to have sex all the time - it starts to pickup where she gets her hands on some illegal tech that will allow her to have perfect recall of things she sees and therefor, reads. It's her hope that with this tech she can pass her exams with flying colours. This is where things get interesting, it starts exploring bio-punk tech concepts with the idea that this chip begins to feed off of her in a sort of symbiotic relationship with one another. This culminates in her having an AI presence from the tech bonded within her. She begins to learn more of herself by interacting with this construct and her life also goes careening into a ditch. There's subsequent action that was pretty cool. The animation was really unique and cool. The language was very neat, I'd never heard Serbian before and it's a pretty cool language! The exploration of what such tech could do to us with the possible ramifications were really interesting. There was some interesting eastern philosophy brought into it and the context was good. I liked Edit as a character, I liked most things except the over sexualization that was pretty overt. I ended up rating it a 7. 

Aleksa Gajic is a new name to me, but in Serbia he is a famous comic writer and sketch artist. This film is based on one of his comic books.This animated feature is not for kids but for adults, teenagers and for people who like Kôkaku kidôtai/ Ghost in the Shell(1995), Akira (1988), Renaissance (2006), Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira/ Cowboy Bebop: The Movie(2001)etc.This story about nanotechnology, AI and some deeper existential discussions about life, death etc and is not for people who want fast action sequences and lots of shooting. There are scenes like that but very few.Granted Aleksa Gajic is not breaking any new grounds but some of the issues he is trying to discuss here has already happened. For example there are stories about college students in USA that have been misusing medication for ADD as means to perform better at tests.Using those types of medication in order to achieve better is very dangerous. Also you have scientist Kevin Warwick who implanted a chip in his arm so he could automatically open doors,lights etc.These above examples serves a reminder for future viewers that some of the things featured in the film aren't that far away.The animation is done in Flash, and it works for the most part. But sometimes I wished that Gajic had cooperated with a Japanese or a french animation studio, for a even smoother animation.Aleksa Gajics film is very good, and I wish he gets some offers from Japan, France, USA etc because it would be nice to see some more films from him and it is not everyday you get to see well made animated sci fi films like this.

As a big fan of animation, I eagerly awaited to see this first Serbian animated film. Did "Edit i Ja" deliver? Well it depends...Aleksa Gajic is a young and gifted animator who is present in Serbian manga community for a while. I liked his work before and after seeing the first trailer in 2007, it looked like a promising project. Indeed it was decent from a animators point. Some said that the solid basic drawing wasn't reproduced in a animation cycle properly, and that the whole film looks more like an flash app. It's pretty true, however, considering this is the first kind of such a project in Serbian cinematography, I think it looks pretty OK, and the visual team can undoubtedly get all the credits. It is nowhere close to a Japanese anime, but even that took decades to evolve into a level we all know and take for granted. "Edit i ja" has a lot of potential for further evolution. Story, a fiction fantasy from a futuristic Belgrade is also a bright spark of this anime. A girl bonds with an implant chip which begins to awaken and become a living entity.However, the good impression made by the visuals and the story was ureutterly ruined by a horrible voice over recordings. In an animated film, the voice plays one of the key roles, since it gives a soul to characters involved. With a few exceptions, the voice crew ruined this promising title. I don't know whether the production team paid them low fees, or it's just the fact they are bad orators, the team made up of more or less famous actor cast sounded like a bunch of people dragged in from the street, with very little motivation and placed in front of the mike. No enthusiasm what so ever.So, overall, "Edit i ja" remains a good attempt which has a lot of further potential. Still, it could and should have been better.

I've been a Japanese-anime collector for years, this was quite a surprise. Funny how things go, I found a link to the YouTube in a David Brin article, and didn't know quite what to expect.One full-length movie later, it's just ... WOW.Futuristic story, great character design, animation quality with attention to foreground and background, interesting plot with action, adventure, relationships, philosophy and more. Glad there were subtitles. Made me want to go back to Belgrade (was there in 1970) and shake the creator's hand. The work of one person ... amazing. That's why it's definitely a 10.