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AKA: Lilja 4-ever
Year: 2002
Directed by: Lukas Moodysson
Starring: Oksana Akinshina (Lilya), Artyom Bogucharskiy (Volodya), Pavel Ponomaryov (Andrei), Tonu Kark (Viktor)
Country: Sweden, Scandinavian Cinema, European Cinema
Language: Russian (English Subs)
Runtime: 01:44:36
Genres: Based on a True Story, Rape, Teensploitation, Old-Young, Human Trafficking-Prostitution, Family
Plot – Spoilers:
A teenager Lilya has grown up in the post-Soviet squalor and decay that her town has to offer. So she’s buzzing when she hears that her mother will be leaving for the United States to join her boyfriend whom she met online. The images of the US that Lilya has been exposed to, promise a far better and exciting life. But a few days before they’re due to leave, her mother tells Lilya she won’t be coming with her. The shattering of Lilya’s dreams from here is slow but sure, and she eventually starts selling herself when the bitter cold and lack of food offer prostitution as the quickest and easiest route to survival.
Lilya has a fuck-you attitude – like when she’s being called a whore by the local boys, she doesn’t scurry away in embarrassment. It’s the slow burial of this spirit and her will to fight by the end of the movie, that makes this one of the deeper portrayals of angst and prostitution.
Favorite Scenes:
The two occasions Lilya is on the threshold of leaving her town:
Her spirits are high, she is more conscious of her surroundings, and she almost reminds herself that there is nothing worthy here that she’s leaving behind, other than her miserable friend Volodya. During a second watch of the movie, these scenes are heightened because you know what’s looming ahead for Lilya. It’s like a couple of lines from ‘Forever Young’ (a remix of which plays when Lilya and Andrei are out having fun):
Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst…
Random:
Based on a Lithuanian girl, Danguole Rasalaite.
The Unloved is another movie that has a powerful scene involving the abandonment of a daughter by a mother.
God, i can’t stop crying 😭
mmm,,,
vegetables don’t grow in winter.
Fuck.This movie is so depressing.Literally crying rn.
10/10 movie.
Goddamn it.
5 out of 5
This one really hurts. At least after the halfway point, I was furiously kneading my eyebrow as a stress response and sat motionless with a never-leaving frown on my face, complete emptiness inside. It’s a complete spiral of misery, you just want to SCREAM at fate to PLEASE give these kids some peace and quiet. I was also caught very off-guard by the amount of rape scenes featured in this movie. At some point during the compilation scene, I just felt so nauseated and started heavily dissociating to the point of having to go back a whole 15 minutes to catch whatever plotline came after that. So a genuine warning to anyone who has personal trauma with human trafficking, (C)SA, suicide(al ideation) etc. From the start of the mum leaving, you enter this movie already haunted by the abandonment experienced by the main character and I felt more tense watching this than most horror flicks I’ve enjoyed. Every single spark of hope gets snuffed out in a desperately traumatizing situation and as a viewer, you evolve from wanting to keep them safe from harm, to just hoping she gets the chance at doing the “ultimate (self)harm” – so-to-speak – to be able to leave this hell. At times I even felt too bad looking at the monitor, as if wanting to give these children some privacy, that has been continously stripped from them by force. Great movie, will definitely rewatch at some point, but be prepared to experience depression and… Read more »
Favorite movie ever.
Release the Epstein Files
Have anyone else noticed the reversed star (resembling the symbol of Baphomet, satanism) in the house of that old “client” of Lilya (the one who talked to her like she was a school student -probably a roleplay when he fantasized about his own daughter since his house is cleary a family house- ) ?
Long before the exposed Epstein and P. Diddy, back in early 2000s when Peter Scully and the whole hurtcore (pedos) and CP communities where still active in lolita city (deep web).
I bet the director knew that most of pedos are into occultism: sacrifices of children, CP, necrophilia, cannibalism, etc.
I also bet that it’s no coincidence that his house is the biggest one.
That’s like implying indirectly something like “wealthy old people are into some fucked up shit and the same situation exists everywhere but i can’t directly refer to them because they have leverage/political influence, so here’s an old wealthy perv with a big ass house, here’s a reversed star, here’s Lilya, an underaged innocent girl. Go on, connect the dots yourself!”.
There are literally thousands of documented cases of pervs who got exposed and caught after many deep web leaks and the majority of them were more than just rich.
Great movie! This, Mandragora (1997) , Mysterious Skin (2004) , Lolita (1997) and Hard Candy (2005) are some of my favourite movies with that theme. 10/10
the pedos in these comments sicken me to my core.
I always come back 2 this movie when im sad this movie brings me comfort in a disturbing way
Really harrowing
cant understand why nobody wants to fuck lilya up the ass
Amazing and realistic movie ! Lilya was so desperate for a better life and the poor Volodya…He was the only good person around her.
im fucking dead after watching this. as a russian it was fucking gut wrenching. i never cry over movies but this was my first exception. this fuckshit changed my life.
this was pretty spot on for growing up anywhere crap in the 80s. Too many kids growing up in the streets.
the fact that this is someones life right now
what a sad film!!! but also well told!
I literally made an account to leave a comment because I feel somewhat wrong for even watching this. Out of the countless movies I’ve watched.. THIS ONE.. has to be the only one that left me uncomfortable watching it.. I was judging myself the entire time. This movie is fucking sad.. depressing.. raw.. loving.. genuine love/happiness from the boy receiving his first ever real gift to the girl coping by making a fort. This movie changed me no doubt. Well.. time to watch the story of junko.. wish me luck because this time I got headphones..
would love to fuck lilya up the ass
u can’t buy my heart my soul !!!
i feel so bad for her :< especially in the scene where she doesnt hug her mother goodbye , my parents left me and i regret not hugging them so much . 🙁
Good movie хорошо лиля
I rarely cry at films. Romances and crap like The Notebook make me want to hurl, not cry 😂 I’m tough as nails and rarely cry in real life. The last time I cried in real life was the death of my father. So it certainly takes a certain kind of devastating film to actually make me cry. In all my days, there are only 4 films that have ever made me cry.
1. Dancer In The Dark, 2. Bedeviled, 3. Bastard Out Of Carolina and…this heart wrenching masterpiece of a film.
If this film doesn’t hurt your soul a bit, then you don’t have one.
fuck man, i dont even know what to say.
humans are the absolute worst. we need to be wiped out like with what happened to the dinosaurs. RIP Lilja and Volodja.
No wonder this movie is rated so highly. I had tears in my eyes. And then to realize that it was somewhat based on a true story………….
Great acting by a couple of very young actors.
************************Spoilers********************
Those poor kids had their childhoods stolen. It was sad to see.
One thing I didn’t understand is when she was called to social services and told that her mother didn’t want her I thought they were going to send her to foster care until she was 18 but they didn’t appear to do anything further.
I also wondered who was paying her rent since the electricity had been cut off previously.
I Live in the US city that has the worst human trafficking in the country. This is so so common it breaks my heart it’s happened to people I know. I’ve been taught the signs of pimp grooming since i was 11 it’s so unsafe
This was harrowing. Poor wee lassie
Holy shit this is the saddest movie ive ever watched… this movie will genuinely haunt me. At first i related to her because she was abandoned by her mom and was homeless but that took such a dark turn 🙁 the end had me bawling my eyes out. Its so fucked up how these things are real and are so so common with girls. Human trafficking is real , never trust anyone you dont truly know.
I love her
She deserves better:(
I’ve see this movie in Sweden when it was published. Tho’ thre is part of russian spoken in the movie, it has also swedish language. Feels weird to hear it it all dubbed to russian language, even those parts where they origianlly talked russian. Also, I never unedrstood why in the movie’s name is Lilja, but in the movie it is Lilya.
(Lilja is Finnish name but this movie has nothing to do with Finland or finnish people.)
Minor matters those tho’, movie is good, Lukas Moodysson is great director.
Near the end I started to cry so hard (a movie has never made me cry). The fact that she was a baby and all those men did those things her makes me sick.
Most saddest part was watching her call her mom, she’s still a baby
“Remember, remember, the 5th of November.
The gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why the 5th of November should ever be forgot.”
-V for Vendetta
You MAGA cunts are done. Fuck off back to whichever rock you crawled out from beneath 8 years ago.
Americans are excited for the first female President. The rest of the world is excited for Trump and his MAGA sycophants to perish in shame.
Hands down the best movie on this site.
If you’re into watching a masterful portrayal of compounding misery and despair, look no further. The young leads executed their roles with such authenticity it’s almost eerie.
That this is a reality for countless young women across the planet is yet another reason I am glad this civilization is almost over.
When people claim that humanity is the peak of evolution or God’s creation, I’m embarrassed for them. Delusional imbeciles.
i masturbated hard on this one
i hope u fucking kill urself u disgusting piece of shit sick fucks like u dont deserve life u have nothing to live for go hang urself fucking scum
Adolf Hitler elaborates that a leader shouldn’t replace a religion unless he has a better substitute.
There is no substitute for Christianity. The only alternatives presented over the past hundred years are Marxist/ Neo-Pagan religions which are unobjective in their views, doctrines and practices, allowing it to be easily molded by the Jews in media.
“Only fools and criminals would think of abolishing the existing religion”, Stay with Christ.
~ Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Ch 10
wow what an edgelord
Oh… uh…
a bleak reminder of how some women see their own daughters as competition or a burden, and how vunerable humans are easily discarded in this world
RIP LILYA I am so sorry
real, she kinda fine in some scenes
Excellent film, but extremely heartbreaking, some parents dont deserve kids, cunts
Fuck, this hurt
i wont complain again
could u upload the 3 films that came before this one
This movie made a lasting impression on me the first time I saw it. It documents the ironic reality of what Fukiyama triumphantly and clearly pre-maturely called “the end of history”, the beginning of the unchecked barbarity of raw capital across the globe. Moodyson’s an interesting director, objective and compassionate, transgressive and pervy in an unforced poetic way with an instinct for the absurd. I’ve looked for this movie a few times since and haven’t been able to find it. Thanks for posting.
i fucking regret having watched this shit i cannot get it out of my fucking head. if you suffer from depression or whatever then do yourself a favor and DONT watch this movie because honestly it will fuck you up
this movie really spoke to me… when i was 20 i almost ended up in a very similar situation. Turned out to be someone related to human trafficking as the police later told me. People, be grateful everyday and cherish your loved ones <3 I know it's difficult and depressing most days but at least we get to live, fall and get up again. xo