Ice (2012) User Reviews

Pointless

[gaisc · 1/10 · 22 November 2020]

The movie is pointless in such way that it is irritating. I've hardly ever seen such a bad story. Acting is good, to be honest.

Nice to watch if you have patience and love for archaic expressions of classical postulates and values in our society.

[mirak-505-371055 · 8/10 · 17 October 2012]

This is not the best movie I've watched recently, but it certainly deserves better reviews than those currently provided. This is a very beautiful film, with beautiful landscapes, beautiful main actors and often effectively used eye-catching close-ups. This impression is further enhanced by a very good music. In the film, you can feel nostalgia for the old, patriarchal values ​​that have been lost somehow in modern society. Bad luck of one rural family is to some extent a metaphor for an eternal bad destiny of Serbia from which there is no escape. The film can be viewed as a retouched postcard of Serbia and a touristic advertising. It is at the same time its quality, and it can be a disadvantage also. The film is too static, slow, sometimes acting is too pathetic and the story is set far in the past, needlessly archaic and ancient. That's why someone may find it difficult to communicate with the messages of this movie because of its archaic expressions. Most of the actors are excellent, though there are characters acted like caricatures. The whole movie seems like a reaction and response to contemporary films which are mockery of the classical aesthetic and ethical values, and life, relationships and feelings are often presented in a harsh and brutal manner (like latest Serbian movie Clip is).

This movie can be hardly understood by someone who is not from Serbia

[eaqgnt · 10/10 · 10 October 2021]

This is a masterpiece by every means of it. You can surely understand that when you think about the best movies from your demographic area. However if you are not from Serbia, you can hardly understand it. Powerty in the area and time described here were only slightly touched by the movie, it was much harder for those people to live day by day.

And on the top of that you get to be somehow "cursed" by the time you were born and nothing goes as it should be. Tip of the iceberg is literaly described by the ice that destroys the food. There is no need for methaphora here, without the food there is no life. Those bad moments somethimes push you to the very bad decisions.

Masterpiece, story and actors, well done 👏🎬