Srdjan Dragojevic, The Wounds (Yugoslavia 1998)
The Wounds by Srdjan Dragojevic started with a scene of the Christ and almost ended with it, it was a symbol of religion and peace, in a country that believes that religion but had thrown it behind its back. The movie did not have a time order. It was back and forth of what had happen in the past and the boys in the car. A new generation that did not have any other thing to do, so they became a gangster. In the beginning of the movie, those children were shown as innocent, but a violence action. It was the only way to improve their existence. Furthermore, they looked up at their neighbor (Dickie) who paved the path for them to become gangster.
The interesting thing that even thought they killed others, they still looked innocent to us. They did not seem a very bad people. They were still pure and clean from the inside. It was like if they did not know what they were doing. A question comes to the mind, did Dragojuvic made them looked innocent to show that they were only a victim of a place and a time, or he was trying to imitate the Western Films but was not able to make the best of it.
The movie was shown of a young generation point of view. It showed the problems that young teenagers go through the explosion of sexuality. When Pinki saw Lijdia from the window, he could not control himself. They did not think deeply about life, so they finally lose it at the prime of their age. Their story was a story of each child that took the wrong road in this life. The only thing I did not expect was that their third friend would die at the end too. He was not with them in their world. I thought that his fate would become very successes, but he did end with them anyway.
The movie also mentioned the hare time the country was going through. Their currency was in millions. Pinki's father killed himself when he broke the pipes because he could not handle his problems anymore. Also all the three boys get killed and die at the end, but Pinki was still telling his history even after his death. There was a message from this movie to the young generation states that if you want to be a gangster be one, but you would go to no where and this would be your end.
