Lilya 4-Ever - Movie Review 

Dude. Yes.

love this

Just like this critic said, I think some of the music bogs it down, especially the black metal. I love this movie though.

She is 16

@@sweetbarbietoes does it make it somehow better?

@@antinhumppaa Of course Not but i just correct her age nothing else

@@antinhumppaa I think it does make it slightly better. Like at least she got two more years of life.

exactly

seriously.. that was the most gut wrenching part for you?…

@@ryzeup5654 mmhmm

Their story wasn't happy as well

My class watched it and laughed at the rape scenes. Watching them laugh I wondered if I had gone mad

@@user-mt2co8ip4uwtf

I wish your good heart and kindness and empathy eternel happiness, yeah the movie hit home for me , i lived in eastern ukraine as a student , and i can understand how you feel , i always volountered in интрнат , and its an eye opening experince for me , the film is so disturbing becuase its true , 30 year old man and made me cry like a child , too many faces came to my head watching it

Dangoule, RIP 4Ever 💔

We were all made to watch it in school back in the day, in sweden.

💔💔💔😔

macu noproblemo How is the lifestyle there in Paldiski? Please don't tell me it's like how it is portrayed in the film.

@@HidekiOirababy well nowadays its nice but at a time the movie was filmed it was actually very real.

I hope it is better now. Once I get to finishing school and start working sure I'll help out!

The same post-soviet collapse era was also depicted in an anime called Black Lagoon...except it was way way darker...that the things that happen to kids in the trafficking network is basically devastating, and that this film is being generous to the viewer, in that there are much much worse things they could have showed, of what girls like this go through while being trafficked. The anime is a different kind of media so it's less downbeat, but it' definitely gives you the same gut wrenched feeling in your stomach that this movie captures so well.

I can't even imagine what it would've been like to grow up in the late 90s/early 2000s in certain post-Soviet communities like this.. obviously this movie does not reflect the experience of all or even most people in these countries during that time, but it's still probably a staggering amount of people like you say. The collapse of an entire political and economic system seems like it would be so traumatic for the first decade afterwards. I also watched the Russian film Брат recently, which is also around the same time period and kind of gave me similar vibes (with regard to the atmosphere). This film is profoundly depressing, but has some very beautiful elements-- such as her caring friendship with Volodya

Shteno I’m sure they did but we all get different things out of films, just wasn’t for me personally.

@@liamandhyde Well...to each his own! Hope you don't feel the same for "Breaking The Waves", for example...

@@liamandhyde P.S. You ought to KNOW the lyrics of that song, and to what (and WHOM) the refer to, in order to better understand how come he chose that particular Rammstein song!

@Harmony May You do realize that's a good thing, right? Having a real emotional reaction to a film, just shows u that u've actually watched a real piece of art, in particular a film story, that made u both feel it, and think about it - and that's the point in a film that's dealing with hard social, religious, personally emotional... issues. And, of course, it displays the fact that u r not a dummy, who just sits in front of the screen and then goes with her/his friends and talks about what type of a mobile phone u should buy next! All the films u've numbered are simply outstanding deeds, that should be watched by every true cinema-lover. Try Gegen Die Wand, from Fatih Akin = not so disturbing, but highly emotional and very deep. I think u'll like it!

​@Harmony May It's good that u are aware that it's a good thing. But u aren't responding just because u are a compassionate person (that's just a portion of it), but mainly because that the deed u've just processed has a meaning, a core, a message... which should be the case with each work of art. Now, regarding the part when u say that u are too sensitive in order to cope with...and educated urself, not to hurt others....yet, u are not part of the problem (Okay...), nor "burying ur head in the sand (and here we go ), yet, JUST BECAUSE U R NOT PART OF THE PROBLEM, the way u deal with the awareness about those horrific things is by AVOIDING WATCHING, reading about THEM.... NOW HOW'S THAT ANY DIFFERENT?! IT'S NOT! Choosing to turn ur head and eyes away, isn't much different than burying ur head in the sand! It means, (let's "settle" with just the case in the film) the next time u see a girl like Lilya on the streets, u will just pass her buy! Despite being aware (as u've put it so well) what is/might be happening to her! And that culd easily be even worse, than having some idiot trying to... who neither hs any idea what's happening to her, nnor gives a damn to learn. Think about it... part of the problem with this world is that ppl are so used on feeling comfortable, in their comfort zones, so that even if they're perfectly aware about the problem passing them by each day, they won't do a thing about changing it, but wil just go on living their lives, looking away, and then, discuss about it, have "intellectual debates" with their same/similar friends, debating about the problems in this world, while drinking expensive wines, eating healthy foods, by the fire, whilst it's pouring outside! And that's the main point that comes out of films, books, plays, music... like this. Some people become just aware, but keep on turning their head the other way, and afterwards have "constructive debates" about it,, others act upon it, once they recognize the same thing in their lives!! And do I have to say which one is actually meaningful in a truly & fundamentally worthy ethical value system!? I don't think so... U are obviously more than enough intelligent and aware how things function in this world, in our society!

She’s given up on help at this point. All the help she’s ever had betrayed her.

Swedish authorities probably would’ve just put her on the first flight home. The way they deal with trafficking victims over there is shocking.

The pimp (according to a recap I’ve watched) says that the police would harm her if they found her, so she legitimately had no options.

this movie killed my insides and that not easy

n i c e

Shu upp!

yes!!

@1950's Glassware RU-vid

just meant it was aggressive for what was going on during that scene in my opinion

@@liamandhyde Fair enough. Solid review otherwise!

I dunno how I feel about that. But watch it and find your own meaning I’d say.

Omg but lilya was an unwanted child and was left alone in a different continent by her mother at 14 o.o

she just liked the name, stop looking for something bad everywhere

Thank you!

Blanka Is underrated

yes the first time i saw it i though it was funny like it didn't fit but after seeing it again i got into it

Yeah I think the electronic ones suit it better, even though they weren’t always for me. But just that one song (even though it’s iconic now) didn’t fit entirely well for me.

I actually thought although it is metal it sound pretty depressing in a way.

Hahaha sorry, my accents real weird and I am but an Englishman

@@liamandhyde Dude.. No need to apologize! But I felt like you wanted an answer on how it was pronounced :D

Gonna continue to go through his filmography so when I get to that, there’ll be a review on the channel!

Leo Schlasberg, what do you thibk about "a hole in my heart"?

Thank you and that’s very kind

No one enjoys this movie its so fucking saaad

@@bertinasalcedoramos8302 I enjoy it. Enjoy it for how well done it is. I first heard about it this year. Just knowing it was "disturbing" (not that it disturbed me) I checked it out. I've told people I almost like this film more than any film released last year. That's how awful Hollywood has become IMO. I've noticed I'm more into foreign films (especially European) rather than North America.

@@bluedemon218 Another good foreign film is I Stand Alone

@@whateverwhatever860 I own that. Sorry for not responding RU-vid is bad with that. I'm a big fan of Gaspar Nöe's

Probably not

I watched it when it came out in 2002 - I was 12. It rocked me. And I watched some real messed up movies growing up. This one still haunts me 29 years later... it’s a masterpiece but you can’t ever unsee it.

@@lunalinn6570 i agree

She didn´t trusted anyone anymore, the movie shows how alone you can be. A sad fact is that Danguole Rasalaite (the film is based on her life) arrives at a pizza place when she escaped the apartment and is raped again in the basement of the place.

How could she have asked for help in Sweden when she didn't speak any Swedish and very little English?

Grave of the Fireflies is a masterpiece, but this movie made me way more sad.

You just sound like an asshole lol

how do you know that lmfao

😂

Lol at thinking the ending of lilya-4-ever is a Disney ending

@@user-mt2co8ip4u What an idiot