South wind, on the border

Let's get things straight at the outset. The third season of the mega-popular series is broadcast on RTS South wind with the subtitle "On the border". The author of this franchise is Miloš Avramović, who is a screenwriter and director, and the main protagonist and producer is Miloš Biković. From the first season, we follow the fate and life of the drug lord Petar Maraš, who climbs the ladder of the Belgrade underworld, then in the second season "Ubrzanje" gets out of prison and dominates the Balkans, only to find himself practically at the center of the global conflict between America and Russia. either through South Stream or lithium mining.

From the first episode, the focus is on action, shooting, furious car chases and bloody confrontations in the underground. In addition to the series, there is also a film that was extremely popular in cinemas and on television, and the trademark of the series are the current hits of hop-hop and trap artists from this area. Serbia got its serial hero, a Balkan criminal who tries to caress his wife and save his head and family in a cruel world. Until today, in Yugoslav cinematography, we had Captain Leši, Šojić, Kekec and Žika and his dynasty. Now he's a handsome drug lord, who finds his footing in America, Russia and Latin America. In short, all objective indicators say that it is South wind a successful domestic series that meets world standards in terms of production. That's all probably true, I admit that from the beginning I had a slight stomach cramp while watching it, and unfortunately, that cramp grew more intense from season to season.

At the very beginning, the series had a serious problem of moral relativization. It addresses young people, their language, music and aesthetics, with the message that it is important to survive and caress. A serious scam is being promoted about an honest mobster, who is trying to survive by warring with even worse than himself. The character was chosen wisely because it is completely irrelevant what country or religion he is from, since crime in the Balkans knows no borders. Petar Maraš is a utopia, which is all the more dangerous because kids will commit crimes without punishment.

Apart from this utopia, there are several others worth mentioning, which probably caused me to feel sick. In the subtext of the script lies a parallel history, in which events are controlled by powerful individuals and shadow organizations, be it the secret police, drug dealers or foreign intelligence services from the East or the West. Even today I don't know if in South wind Bercek represents the BIA or parts of the BIA, which are involved in all illegal activities. There are also agents from Russia and America who want to rule Serbia secretly. Marash buys land along the South Stream route, but finds himself in the middle of a global power struggle.

Countless conspiracy theories arise from this mentality, which you can watch every day, for example, on Happy TV. From the vaccine, to lithium, to GMOs, from March 27, 1941, when we were screwed by the English, to October 5, when the foreign services removed Sloba because he was the first opponent of the New World Order. In this world, citizens do not exist, and the world functions only on the basis of parts of power centers. We are just pawns in that global chess game and we fight for democracy and our rights in vain. In the world South wind it is constantly traded, only sometimes it is paid in money and sometimes in head.

Right towards the end of this season, just last weekend, I saw a scene where American agents travel to Nedeljice. They are played by Eric Roberts and William Baldwin, who are part of an international cast. At first glance, everything is great, the villains are played by well-known actors, the less popular brothers Julia and Alek, but the series gained weight anyway. They travel to Nedeljice in a jeep to give money to environmental activists and bribe them. The scene begins with peeing along the elastic barrier of the "Miloš Veliki" highway, over the fence, after which they continue their journey with unwashed hands. Apart from the intense feeling of dirty hands and a failed prostate, incidentally explaining the mechanism of civil protests, causing unrest, in short, the message of the story is clear. Those protesting in Nedeljica are either American mercenaries, or naive useful idiots who bought into the story of ecology. To tell the truth, later it turns out that they are not flowers to each other either, but want to caress for themselves, but the damage has already been done.

In the mega-popular and watched series, American actors say the same things that the President and Prime Minister have been repeating for years about Rio Tinto and lithium exploitation. Foreigners are investing huge sums of money to prevent the opening of mines, so that Serbia does not develop. Only squirrels believe in the green environmental fairy tale. Figuratively speaking, Baldwin and Roberts took a Hollywood piss on environmental activists in Serbia, knowingly or unknowingly making a campaign for Rio Tinto. They did not mention Sava Manojlović while they were peeing, but on several occasions the camera took close-up pictures of a bag full of money on the back seat, and the money was as much as the activists in question asked for. The agents concluded that these "greens" are not so naive.

Who then, dear viewers, will save us from the clutches of those White World bandits? Will it be Putin, as they assure us night after night on Happy TV, or will it be Russian agents in South wind? I am afraid that our only hope in the end will be the drug lord Marash and his gang, who will kill the enemies of Serbia. Also, I admit that the actors from the series, especially from Marash's gang, look like time travelers to me. Namely, almost the entire football team from Montevideo now he is in the gang, they only need little Stanoje and the pigeon Blagoje. Don't worry, I'm sure Marash will win in the end, I'm just not sure if he'll end up in jail.