Tilt (2011)

Why so much hype?

Very Cool!!!

Too much of everything

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

TILT is a really well-told story of the unpleasant and rough Bulgarian reality after the fall of communism. It's violent and romantic, it's brutal, but honest, it's painful to the ones that once shared the characters' story and are now reminded about it, but I believe it helps them reevaluate this part of their lives and gives them strength anew to tackle their current problems.Apart from the meaning and the message, this is one of the most professionally shot and edited movies from Bulgaria. The actors were very good - young, beautiful, sexy and very talented. The director has also done a great job, the cinematography is simply beautiful. It has controversial and interesting characters and a good story. Maybe harder to understand for people that have never directly come in touch with communism, but keeping your attention till the end. I felt fresh after I walked out of the theater. Definitely one of the movies that the current Bulgarian generation will play to their offspring.

I didn't expect much and that's why I'm neither disappointed ,neither fascinated. We all know that the situation in 1989 was not pink. We all know a lot of stories, a lot of movies have been made about the so called"transition".And yet again the same story.I'm tired of watching the same story again and again. The forbidden love and the s****y communistic rules. The actors are new, they are fresh and may be they made me like the movie a little bit more that the others. So as a final: Not bad movie , could've been much better, but ... we can't change it now . It is not total crap , it is not an Oscar winning movie.

As a coincidence I was at the age of the those guys on 1989 when the regime change happened in Bulgaria. I am sorry but my own life and the lives of many of my friends were much more interesting and dramatic than this movie characters'. Starting from the title - Tilt has the usual Bulgarian movie title of at least 3rd 4th level of abstraction. Boring story, so straightforward, nothing original. The love story shown within 2 minutes in sooo cliché-way succeeded with that typical sex scene in the locker room. Hey, we've seen love stories and sex scenes. This was far weak to be a basis for the rest of the movie. Dialogs are so difficult to hear and understand and this not because of some original language, it is because of the majority of the actors just cannot act. The main character is boring, his mates are boring, the girl is boring. I remembered none of the names of the characters. And they must be kidding by proposing this as a nominee for Oscar awards.

This movie has lots of advantages . Of course there are things that can always be made better but the movie shows progress. It's not a love story . The love story in it is only a base on which the movie is built. You don't know what will happen at the end and that is what makes it more interesting . It brings you melancholy sadness happiness nostalgic feelings and anxiousness to see what will happen next. Some find it radder depressive i find it intelligent . A good story is not always a happy ending story . Bulgarian actors have a lot of potential that is different from other nationalities but there are walls in nowadays' thinking and if that walls fall the acting will be completely astonishing . Judging this movie should be taken only as a progressive critique. Watch it with pure heart , you won't regret it .