The Road

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dave d @RT34924333 12/17/2020 Ognjen Glavonic wrote and directed the Serbian feature, 'Teret' which translates to an unfortunate English title, but does explain the premise of the movie. It's a character study of a man who is doing a job in which he isn't quite aware of exactly what he's doing. 'The Load' is trucker slang and in a war torn nation (Set in 90s Yugoslavia) jobs are hard to come by. Lucky for you it's a heck of a lot better than I described it. It's slow and there aren't a lot of words, but for whatever reason I could not look away. There isn't a lot of third act impact. Certainly walks a tightrope that it pulls off most of the way. Final Score: 7.5/10 See more 06/28/2020 𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘵 is a film, as one critic put it well, that is only context- no suspense; no actual action to drive the plot or manipulate the audience. What is happening, what Vlada is undertaking, is grasped by context. This is messy, dangerous business. Not only is there the unknown cargo, but there's the threat of what could happen if it's discovered, otherwise, why the secrecy? There's a road block of burning vehicles that's been put up. And what if he fails to reach the destination by the '9pm sharp' time he was given? All of this and a family that misses the driver is going down while real bombs are raining down upon the countryside as a 'video game war' goes down in the one-time country of Yugoslavia. From the remarkable opening scene, an austere shot of a truck riding through a barren road in the Balkan countryside as what appear like merely harmless fireworks decimate the land and its people as NATO blitzed the country. Leon Lučev is flawless really as the solemn, resigned driver. It's good to see his character soften some and open up as he takes on a passenger he had no initial desire to deal with. Behind the camera, director Glavonic is assured and skilled in re-creating the time and place of these abhorrent events. The barebones buildings, old vehicles and unpaved roads make it feel like we're watching a film set much further back than it actually is. As Christopher Llewellyn Reed of Film Festival Today put it, the film is "a testament to how the past need not always be absolute prologue, even if history so often repeats itself." 3.6 stars See more 09/05/2019 Quite boring and failed political leftist prooaganda movie. One sided story about war that tries to cash in on SJWs views. See more 09/01/2019 You'll actually get bored midway See more Read all reviews

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