Marginalci

"Marginalci" is a feature length comedy movie which aims to poke fun at Croatian countrysides and the disfunctional rural governments led by often inept and unskilled individuals.

Living in such a place I was fairly interested in what this movie had to say about our backwarer counties and it's no surprise that I was immensly dissapointed by the disgusting portrayal of stereotypes and ignorant social commentary of this movie. Croatian comedy stems from what I would refer to as character ridicule, much like in British comedy, our comedy heroes are often inept, cringe-worthy individuals that we point fingers at and collectively laugh seeing parts of ourselves in their portrayal. While "Marginalci" attempts to make use of such comedy, it fails miserably as instead of seeing humorous portrayals of ourselves and our neighbours we are met with over the top caricatures whose portrayal is downright grotesque.

Comedy failings aside, the plot is hard to follow with multiple protagonists and no clear progression to the already contrived plot. Characters are one-dimensional and often feel as though they were written for one joke only which had to be stretched across the entire movie. The best way to describe this movie would be early 2000s Croatian comedy skits ( which were never funny to begin with) weaved into a nonsense plot filled with bad dialogue and poor writing.

It's a shame this is what Croatian cinematography has come to, that being said, outside of our animation studios such as Zagreb Film, Croatian cinematography never really had much to take note of.

In short, "Marginalci" is hard to follow and fails at what it aims to do, the only reason it did not recieve a one star rating is because of "Milan Pavlovich" ( Kresho)'s part which made for a good few laughs.