SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

margosanci Have you ever heard a story about goodness? Maybe once, or twice, hardly more... Listening and talking about someone being good is boring... We take it for granted, nobody cares about the grace, no one remembers. In the time of war, goodness means life, in the peaceful times goodness stays good and sometimes saves lives. This is a story about the moments when goodness touches the soul of a man, as some drop or rock that hits the water, leaving the circles behind. This movie goes around those circles of lives and records their touching, the echo of love. If there is a story about us, people of Earth, it has to be told, and I'm glad I watched it.

Reno Rangan This is the movie, like, just waiting for me and I used the opportunity very well to enjoy it all the way. Serbian submission for the 86th Academy Awards in the category of best foreign language movie. I feel this movie deserves to be on the short list, unfortunately it was not.Superb story telling. It was sliced into multiple pieces according to the characters. Whole story happens behind the incident that takes place at the very beginning of the movie. So the characters who are involved in it takes the different form of emotions to the next 12 years where the most of the movie happens.As usual like any movie the opening incident was preserved for the end portion to explain. It was not the first time, but it worked fine with the movie. The movie characters were amazing, each of them had their own affairs to deal it. But how all these people are connected to one another is the crucial segment of the story narration.This movie was actually based on the real event about a Serbian soldier that occurred in the year 1993 during the ethnic war between two religious people. It was very well filmed, capturing the facts in realistic structure including the places. I don't know what made the Oscar people to discard it. It was one of the best movie of the year 2013 but was not noticed largely.

dragokin Krugovi (Circles) explores the consequences of civil war in former Yugoslavia, which is still a very sensitive subject in the area. The discussion surrounding such a movie usually overshadows its message. Due to the complex nature of the conflict and numerous parties involved, movies about this particular civil war tend to paint a simplified picture and imply how one of the sides were "more guilty". This might not be interesting or even anticipated by an unacquainted viewer, yet it takes a toll on the artistic merit of the movie. Angelina Jolie's In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) is probably the best example.The authors of Krugovi (Circles) overcame this challenge by a script in which the main protagonists are mostly Serbs. A group of Serbian soldiers kicks off the storyline and their actions would influence their lives and the lives of the people around them even twelve years later.Probably the best thing about this movie is its atmosphere. The grinding sadness almost pours from the screen. However, this is not a tragedy, rather a story about common people whose small deeds might make the world a better place although they won't right the wrongs of the past.Krugovi (Circles) is so far the best feature film by the Srdan Golubovic. According to IMDb.com he directed only three feature films, yet he displayed an amazing ability to improve his output throughout his career. This one set the bar pretty high and it is with great expectation that i await his next movie.

maurice yacowar In Circles, Serbian director Srdan Golubovic dramatizes the need for warring factions to move beyond their animosities. The film is framed by the start and the end of a scene in Bosnia, 1993, based on an actual event. The golden Serbian off-duty soldier Marko sees three colleagues brutalize a Muslim civilian, the tobacconist Haris. When Marko intervenes, Haris runs off but the soldiers turn on Marko and kill him. Marko's young doctor friend watches helpless, while other citizens look away.The bulk of the film shows the characters still dealing with that death in Serbia, 2008, their wounds having outlived the war. Marko's fiancée Nada drifted off after her loss, married a brute and is now trying to escape his menacing pursuit of their young son. Haris helps her find a job and flat, then pays for her son's passport to enable her escape to Bosnia, where her husband faces arrest. The husband gives Haris a second severe beating but refrains from killing him, his eyes tearing up when he realizes he has lost his son. Marko's aging father Ranko is still alienated from the widow of one of Marko's assailants. He refuses to employ their grown son on his project, to relocate an old stone church from the power plant to a country hilltop. The church is an emblem of taking the moral high road. At the young man's persistence the old man softens, gives in, comes to accept him, and as he speeds him to a hospital after an accident cradles his head and tells the driver the boy is his son. Haris phones Ranko on the anniversary date of Marko's death. Now he calls him after this second beating. Though living in Germany now, Haris repays his debt to Marko by attending to his survivors. Marko's doctor friend is now the only surgeon who can perform the operation that will save the life of Todor — the leader of Marco's assault — after a serious traffic accident. The man recognizes him and futilely tries to get a different surgeon. The doctor is at first unwilling to save his friend's killer's life, especially when the brute denies remorse and calls him a "pussy" for his moral considerations. Post-operation this brute too tears up in gratitude for having been saved. One recurring motif is the long shot of a long winding road, like the one down which Ranko drags the crippled worker. It's an emblem of the long route to redemption, through forgiveness.The title has two implications. At one point Ranko muses that a stone dropped in water sends out spreading circles, but a good man's deeds don't. In this film Marko's death ends up having positive effects on the others, on Haris immediately and on the others up to 12 years later. They manage to break the circle of violence and hatred begetting violence and hatred. For more see www.yacowar.blogspot.com.