“Poetry,” “beauty,” and “the serenity of nature” might not be the first words that spring to mind after one watches Rene Eller’s disturbing and graphic film Wij (We in English). However, despite the picture’s abject nihilism and ice-cold themes, the lush landscapes, easy-going cinematography, and soothing music of the film provide a certain amount of comfort in the face of bleak acts of youthful depravity and pornographic abandon.Despite outside appearances, contemporary suburbia is more perverse and sleazy than one could ever imagine, and Eller’s bold, experimental film has no qualms about exposing the underbelly of a youthful society gone horribly corrupt.Wij 2018 Movie Download.
Like Larry Clark’s Kids before it, Wij holds little back in the story of a group of teenagers who entertain themselves one summer by engaging in explicit sex, prostitution, physical assault, blackmail, and other dehumanizing acts. At times the film seems unscripted, and the young actors do an impressive job at coming across as entirely real, cold, distant, and occasionally empathetic.With many warm, boring days of summer ahead of them, the kids — both male and female — indulge in these acts so casually and gratuitously that the film almost loses some of its punch, appearing at times like many other exploitation films with little substance underneath.
But there is something truly captivating about Wij, something that makes the film impossible to look away from even during its most unsettling moments.A somewhat suspenseful framing device (the testimony of one of the kids during a trial involving a mysterious death and a potential pedophile) should work to hook the audience and keep their attention to the closing credits.And it is that “mysterious death” that serves as the cornerstone for the film’s non-linear plot, a narrative technique that is fairly easy to follow and yet still builds intrigue and momentum with each passing scene.