Lilya 4-ever

I will never watch this film again. Truly disturbing and one of the most sad films I've ever watched in my life. Gave me Requiem of a Dream vibes but even worse. I genuinely got disgusted at so many parts on this film. Sex traffic is one of the most serious things right now and way more common than one would imagine. In so many countries sex traffic is so incredibly common. In Sweden the statistics are extremely high. That's why it's extremely important for everyone to watch this film to actually see how serious this subject of the matter is. The message is way more serious than you might think. Lilja 4-ever is a tragic and disturbing film that portrays reality so well. The whole soviet-style apartment and the no hollywood gloss are done so great. Lilja's hopelessness is detailed so fricking well it even made me feel depressed. Dynamics are insanely good. Volodya's and Lilya's relationship is truly heartbreaking to it's end. Volodya's and Lilja's suicide was so hard to watch. This film giving no happy ending portrays reality well, but they really didn't think twice before ruining my whole day. Performances are over the top. Oksana Akinshina (Lilja) who was only 14-15 years old during filming gives an absolute stunning performance. Like for an age like that and already acts like a oscar worthy actress is just insane. Symbolism is so great too. I love the religious and dreamlike imaginary to give hope to the suffering. It's really done in some kind of way to give positivity to this absolute tragedy. Directing is amazing. The directing forces viewers to see the horror of Lilja and doesn't clearly sugar coat it at all. It also gave me so much Anora vibes. Anora wasn't this disturbing at all, but the directing did give a lot of Anora vibes. Mainly because of that handheld camera work and they both use real world setting rather than a glossy fantasy world one. Well Lilja 4-ever is seriously disgusting and I don't know if I will ever touch this film again just because of how disturbed I was. Lilja 4-ever was indeed a masterpiece. Click here for my top 50 list 10