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What would you do if you were in his (Mladen's) situation?

posted 17 years ago by arijam
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I thought it was interesting that the director said that he didn't know what he would have decided to do if he'd been in Mladen's situation (during Q&A at TIFF), so he made a movie about it.

It's something one should really think about and judge based on his/her own feelings and morals, and not simply go for "the right thing to do by law".
As for myself, I hope I never have to go through anything like this, but I believe that you shouldn't be in a dilemma when your own child's life is in question, even if that means risking your own.

Would you follow Mladen's steps, or would you have done something different???

BTW, excellent, excellent film. One of the best I've seen in a long time.
Cheers,
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[–] vatrena 17 years ago

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[–] vagabundo 16 years ago

I dont think I would hesitate that much.

[–] black_necro 16 years ago

I would ask the guy (trough his wife) if he's ready to give me 26.000 EUR for an information about who wants to kill him. Judging by his belongings (cars worth a lot more than 26k) there is a big chance that he would've accepted the offer. In this way, of course, the movie would suck. Not that it doesn't sucks as it is.

[–] PeterMarkoff 16 years ago

Yes, I'm always thinking this way when is someone hired for murder, in worse case (not paying just for information), they can pay you more/same for killing original bidder (and in this case it would be easier because he seems to not have family).

But I don't think there is need to kill anyone, if I was in desperate need of money I would probably (try to) do bank/post robbery, 26k € is nothing unusual even for small affiliates without people inside and police isn't very sucessful in solving these cases (if you use brain at least a little bit and do some planning before robbery and you are not some drug addicted junkie who just decided 2 minutes ago he will rob bank).

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[–] widios 16 years ago

Yes, I was thinking the same as necro. He might have negotiated, where it not for Peter's arrogance in approaching his assassin. He made sure of a quick death.

A very good film, I think the acting was great between the couple.

Obviously he was so desperate, I too think this could happen to anyone, although, as soon as you know it is someone that you already know, probably most people would not go through with it at that stage.

So at the end, who killed him? Was it Peter's family? Is there an undercurrent in Serbian society where killing of others is more acceptable than further west? I don't say this to insult Serbians but I am just interested to know.

For instance, I understand that there are some pretty vicious Serbian gangsters and of course, Russia has commonly had hitmen for businessmen.

Compared to say, Britain for example, hits here are rare unless you mix in "bad" circles.

[–] PeterMarkoff 16 years ago

It's pretty clear he was killed by Peter's brother (who just arrived to flat of his sister in law just after main character).

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[–] widios 16 years ago

Yeah that's what I thought, that the brother chased him.

But tell me, was the brother - the tough talking guy at the funeral. Was he portrayed as a gangster?

Or was he protrayed as a normal person?

After all getting a weapon is not easy for most Serbs is it?

PS I don't want to get confused by the short hair and black leather jacket - I know many young men dress this way in Balkans and East Europe ;)

[–] PeterMarkoff 16 years ago

I'm not from Serbia and dunno for sure if he was gangster or ordinary guy, but from Peter's arrogant behaviour against Mladen (this is not way how normal bussinessmen behave), from money they had and because someone from his bussiness wanted him dead, we can suppose he and his brother were both gangsters.

Btw. just because someone has short haircut, visits fitness center and wear leather coat it doesn't make him gangster, you are right about that in EE (but usualy these people are nobrainers so it's no big difference against real gangsters :-)), but from other things we can imply he was gangster.

Ad weapon - he got weapon from Peter's wife (Mladen gave it to her so she could kill him), brother didn't need new or own gun, he could use same gun which was used to kill his brother, it's little irony that is possible Mladen was killed by same weapon as he used to kill Peter. And I don't think it's problem for gangsters anywhere to get weapon, but for ordinary people in most of Europe it's not easy to get weapon (as in USA and maybe Canada/FIN/SWE/NOR).

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[–] bloodlust68 16 years ago

bloodlust Of course , Mladen was killed by Peter`s brother, and if anybody noticed , he was waiting for him to kill him at the same place where the light is always red.This time it turned green , but Mladen was waiting because he knew Peter`s brother would come and do what he promised at the funeral.

[–] Eforperfection 15 years ago

thanks for the spoilers

[–] mgr1900 13 years ago

It was his brother (or the guy seeking revenge at the funeral). If you watch the scene immediately proceeding the scene where Mladen is shot, you'll notice the brother dropping off his daughter at school in a black SUV with the silver in the front end. The SUV that drives away at the end is the same vehicle so I'm pretty sure that's who is was suppose to be.

OK, so it took me three years to answer this. Sue me!

[–] kleptomanie2009 13 years ago

to nero:

1) If he knew the person he was supposed to kill in order to warn him or get money out of him, that means he already accepted the deal, as his handler didn't tell him who he was until he agreed to murder him (and he did not know at the time who his wife was).

2) Suppose Mladen did find Petar. He doesn't know the guy's name, who he is, the name of his organisation (if there is such a thing), his phone number or any possible link to both men.

3) There's a ridiculous risk of being their exposed to the Police by the wife or being forced to confessed (remember that we're dealing with the Serbian freaking mafia here).

[–] ciprianl 10 years ago

I'd have shot the scriptwriter.