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Has't someone here written on "Lilja 4-ever"?

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Victor Khomenko

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Patrick, you need to look at that one, for sure!

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You should see "Pusher: 3" to see another sad episode of young woman - tinear 04:53:20 02/03/07 (0)
prostitution.
The Russian mob chief is a wonderful performance, btw.
Re: Has't someone here written on "Lilja 4-ever"? - Doug Flynn 23:47:19 02/02/07 (0)
I enjoyed this movie greatly. You hit the nail on the head - it really draws you in. I've tried to watch several other Russian movies recently that didn't do that (in some cases I couldn't watch them to the end). I agree it's just a tad overdone in places, but I have no doubt that some young women do actually go through those things.
The large-scale exploitation of young women is not a European phenomenon. Here in Oz the cops are always uncovering prostitution rings with large numbers of Asian women cooped up in suburban houses. Their stories are remarkably similar to Lilya's.
Cheers. Doug
I did! Excellent film. nt - tinear 14:32:27 02/01/07 (2)
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- I know you love slow torture... could you give me the link? - Victor Khomenko 14:53:23 02/01/07 (1)
  I thought I might be you, but I was not able to find the link through the Search. Want to compare the notes.
  My small problem with the film is that while all the things depicted in it are more than true, in today's Russia OK, OK, so it was Estonia... same difference... :-)... OK, the former USSR - there is same shit everywhere there... so while all true, to depict it all happening to one person was a bit overbearing. A true artist should know where to stop - and let the viewer to imagine the rest. Here the director was relentless - stopping just a bit shorter might had created more tension.
  But the director is still young, and his humanist aspirations are to be admired.
  Overall, not a masterpiece, but a movie everyone (except perhaps AuPh...) should see. Deeply touching and at times painful to watch - in a couple of places I had to tell myself this is not really happening to the nice girl... the scenes of long rows of abandoned buildings are piercing and... oh... so true!
  - I don't know, one the hard descent falls, the upward force must be much - tinear 15:18:24 02/01/07 (0)
    stronger to slow, stop, or reverse it.
    It was believable within the microcosm the director created. "Peixote" may not be the quintessential depiction of what it's like to be a poor boy in a Brazilian ghetto but it is true to its world (and the boy was killed, allegedly by the "night police" not long after the film's release).
    Anyhow, here's the link.
    - Now rent that Brasilian documentary I mention (in the link, itself). (Open in New Window)
Re: Has't someone here written on "Lilja 4-ever"? - patrickU 09:33:14 02/01/07 (2)
Thank you Victor, the story look good.
I will be sent an Email when Amazon has it.
- It is nerve-wrecking, and overdone in parts, but... - Victor Khomenko 09:58:48 02/01/07 (1)
  ...it will pull you right in.
  - Re: It is nerve-wrecking, and overdone in parts, but... - patrickU 10:14:02 02/01/07 (0)
    In Scarlett?

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