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SXSW 2010 Review: Serbian Film

I haven't been posting much lately due to the fact that I have been extremely busy prepping and participating in the 2010 South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas.  You can find all that coverage, in audio form, over at MovieChatter (that is, as soon as we overcome our technical difficulties and are able to post it).  This is simply a written review of one film I saw during my time there.  If I'm taking the time to write about it, it's probably noteworthy.

When the closing credits of Serbian Film began to roll, I could only sit paralyzed with my mouth drooping slightly and my eyes glazed over as I processed what I had just seen.  My brain seemed unable to produce any sort of coherent thought, let alone come up with an answer to the question of what to do next.  How should I respond?  I spent the remainder of the evening not wanting to say much to anybody, preferring to sit in silence and attempt to figure out... something, I'm not sure what. I wanted to cry. I wanted to laugh. I wanted to scream. I wanted to have sex.  I wanted to castrate myself. And I wanted all of these things equally.  At some point during the climactic scene, I realized that I was a living example of the phrase "physically shaken," my arms and legs spasming like some sort of micro-seizure.  It would not be an exaggeration to say I was reduced to a quivering mess of a man; Serbian Film chewed me up and spat me out, and that was that.

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