While not as good as Pretty Village, Pretty Flame, Dragojević's second most popular film is solid work and at least as cynical as his take on the Bosnian war. Pinki and Svabo are two teenagers failed by society who eventually resort to a life of crime in the visibly and morally decaying Belgrade. Their biggest dream is not to be successful with a career and family, not even the average teenager wish to be rich and famous, but to appear…

There are multiple scenes in this where character A lectures character B, generally in very broad strokes on money and the stock market. When Lumet does something similar in Network a fundamental necessity for these types of scenes to work is always fulfilled, the character being lectured to is uninformed, ignorant. Oliver Stone, in his desperation to tell everyone just what he thinks of wall street brokers forgets this first step, and so you end up with totally unnatural pieces…