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Firstly I have to say that I will do my best to leave politics out of this comment. This is perhaps an impossible task baring in mind that the film's main topic is the massacre of Nazi collaborators that occurred in Slovenia (then Yougoslavia) after the second world war. It also pictures the ex-communist elite as the main villains in the story and quite openly supports right-wing ideas. For instance a Serbian kills one gay man, two non-married pregnant women (one of very promiscuous behavior) and shows Polde's family as the only positive characters in the film.OK, let's try to leave the past which divides people in Slovenia in two halves and the revisionist view on this issue in this film behind.First of all, Pokrajina št. 2 (landscape nr. 2) is supposedly a thriller. But the plot itself is so stereotypical and obvious that makes the film look like a Mel Brooks burlesque! The characters are not developing throughout the film and do not seem like real people but are just thrown into the film - why are Sergej and Polde robbing houses (and Polde says at the beginning that they will only take what the General/communist has stolen!!), why is Sergej divided between Jasna and Majda? why is he all the time saying that his mother is half dead (Slavoj Žižek could say something about that) - is this perhaps suppose to be funny? etc.Let's continue with the stereotypes: both women are pregnant when murdered so the murder looks even more bloody and the killer more ferocious. Cheap trick with no sense. Why all the sex? Sure, there is no Slovenian film without sex (sex sales!), but does sex play a part in this film? Why is it important for? Sergej just shows up at Jasna's door at then they have sex. OK, she represents the prostitute and Magda the mother, but the main reason for sex is the body of the film débutant Maja Martina Merljak. Sure she can't act but what the hack - she's got great tits! The killings look like they were taken from a slasher movie but they are supposedly done by a professional hit-man. No sense again. I could continue with this kind of examples but you get the picture.Baring in mind the awful - that's an euphemism - acting (perhaps only Slobodan Custic as the Instructor looks quite OK) and again very stereotypical directing, editing and photography of the film I can easily say that this is the worst Slovenian film ever made. If it was regarded as a parody then that would be a completely different story ...
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