Aristides-2 Review of Tamo i ovde

Tamo i ovde (2009)

Bleak, dark musicians story, written/directed by a man named Darko.

[3/10 · 2 September 2010]

If your idea of being entertained and/or enlightened includes watching a film with key story holes that momentarily stop the movie with their lack of logic and real life and also includes experiencing a leading male character of titanic depression, then 'Here and There' is for you. Among the story problems? Where does the dead broke young Serbian in the U.S. come up with the cash for one round trip airline flight from NYC to Belgrade plus a one way ticket, in reverse, for his fiancée? Where does the initially perpetually depressed Robert get the $18- $24 a day for his cigarette habit? Why doesn't he spend the $700 a month cigarette money on paying the rent on the s___t h__e apartment he's being evicted from? Why don't hundreds of thousands of foreigners, wanting to immigrate to the U.S. via the fake marriage scam and just do what Ivana does; marry an American and go straight from the Serbian wedding ceremony to the American embassy to get a visa and in very short order fly to the U.S.? It's so easy to do! This summarizes some of this movies distractingly false stories. But the real problem is the ennui of Robert: Director Darko ('may I call you Blackie?'), we get it. He's a supremely, depressed human being, a gold medalist in Stasis. But enough is enough. Get on with the story, or at least write a story where human engagement can be of interest to the viewer based on the complexity of relationships, not on the titanic black hole your leading man has fallen in to.