The Life and Death of a Porno Gang (2009)

I wanted to but couldn't!

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

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.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Start promises a very decent, realistic movie about a guy who ended up directing and circumstantial (read it for the money) ends up in the porn industry. After deciding to make the first porn theater in Belgrade and the prohibition of forced to do so, decided to gather porno gang will work shows the rural parts of the country. Then chaos ensues.The film clearly wants to show how victims of war is in our near and distant surroundings and the ultimate extreme way of showing how much people are willing to go far for the sake of personal satisfaction, financial stability and the goals. Again, shows the narrow-mindedness of rural areas who refuse to accept something new when they see that, in their view, a negative effect on some of them.Great camera and relatively unknown actors leave a real impression as if this team really is, and that was filmed a documentary about them.Take my word, this film has everything, and I would single out the scene when family take a supper on the back of an old man who was scheduled for lapot.

This movie preceded A Serbian Film (2010) which had a similar approach. This one, however, focuses on porn and gore in an attempt to convey its supposed socio-political message.The premise is that the Big Brother controls the Serbian society through various secret services. One of them hires the protagonists to tour the country with a porn theater. The purpose of the assignment is left unclear, but it might be a part of some political power struggle.Apart from aiming at conspiracy theories, which are a kind of national sport in Serbia, there is nothing but shock value in this movie. Nevertheless, i also understand that a lot of critics and viewers considered it carrying a higher artistic message, which i haven't noticed...

An aspiring filmmaker and his bizarre crew of deviant characters with whom he works are on journey.The journey into a nihilistic flight towards liberating oblivion.Their amateurish movies involve perverse sex,rape and snuff killings."Life and Death of a Porno Gang" feels like a Serbian answer to John Waters "Pink Flamingos".It's a transgressive film with the scenes of rape,self-mutilation,bestiality,snuff murders and suicide.I watched this one after "A Serbian Movie" and I can safely say that the latter is even more disturbing.The most shocking aspect of "Life and Death of a Porno Gang" is that some characters volunteer for snuff movies due to poverty-ridden despair.Still there are some touches of humor and even jolts of warmth among the litany of misery.If you liked "A Serbian Movie" give this one a look.8 out of 10.

This is a quite disturbing movie on post-war Serbia in the early 90's of last century. The main character is a young movie director eager to make his first movie. The only opportunity he has to start his career, is making a pornographic picture. Being partially successful, he begins with his cast a pornographic vaudeville roadshow in rural parts of formerly Yugoslavia. Not surprisingly, the locals disapprove of the explicit content of the sex shows. But than there is a businessman in the audience who wants to have snuff movies produced by the 'porno bande'...... Rise and Fall of a Porno Band is a very interesting movie on how things are today in Serbia. It deals with the poverty and struggle for survival in an European country. The non-professional actors do an excellent job and are convincing in showing the hard times Serbia has to go through. Not for the ones amongst us with weak stomachs.Paul Algra