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Just watched the movie...

posted 12 years ago by doctor100
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... it is a depressing movie. The part which really made me sick was when the Croatians shot all the Bosnian Serbs, and before the shooting when the leader started killing everyone with a sledgehammer. Not a pro-serbian film, but at least it shows some truth behind what the other countries did, which most movies don't at ALL, so it gets some respect for me. Although the part with Goran kicking the baby and the mother was REALLY unnecessary(unless they purposefully wrote him to act like that)

My parents emigrated from Serbia in 1986, so they never went through the atrocities of the civil war. Can anyone who HAS lived through it tell me what it was like from a neutral point of view? If so, thank you.

[–] antonioapi 12 years ago

Civil war? You do understand that Croats, Bosnians, Slovenes and Albanians fought against Serbs and Yugoslav army? How is that civil war?

When exactly did Bosnians and Croats systematicly killed people during the war like it was depicted in this movie?

Why dont you watch a movie that wasnt directed by Croat, Serb or Bosnian? A neutral movie, rather then this one directed by a Serb.

Check out Harrisons Flowers, In the Land of Blood and Honey, Welcome to Sarajevo or something simillar.

[–] lgorenc 11 years ago

@antonioapi: How can you possibly say that? You have no idea what you're talking about. First of all, there are at least two sides in a war and both sides commit atrocities. Bosnian Muslims, Croats and especially Albanians did systematically kill people. Some areas of Bosnia and Croatia are ethnically cleansed and there are no more Serbs there. In Kosovo there are almost no Serbs at all. Some fled, but many of them were killed. How can you accuse of ethnic cleansing people who have been ethnically cleansed? Check out the statistics and facts. In 1991, the Yugoslav federal Army was protecting the Constitution by trying to restrain secessionist states, but later on, when all but Serbs left the federal Army, it used its resources to protect Serbs who lived for centuries in Croatia and Bosnia and had already suffered through genocide in WWII, while Kosovo was a part of Serbia and is a completely different story. I can see you are indoctrinated and what you call "neutral" movies are actually western propaganda that is still demonizing Serbs. And awfully boring movies as well, especially In the Land of Blood and Honey, which one can hardly sit through - just take a look at the ratings.

[–] babel_on_5 11 years ago

Frankly when I watch this movie I don't care who's the good guys and who's the bad guys; I don't have a bone to pick with either side. To me the show is about the disintegration of Joshua Rose/Guy, what the war did to him, his finding his humanity and eventual salvation. It's about ignorance and prejudice destroying neighbors, about old customs tearing a family apart (Vera's) and the loss of humanity because of those old prejudices and ways. Finally it's about Guy finding his soul via Baby Vera, the true "Savior" of this movie.

Modern socialism is when corporate jets land [at Reagan Airport] in DC. -JK Gilbraith, 1983

[–] bluesguy 10 years ago

DITTO

I TRULY MISS STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN!

[–] Jones70 (6195) 3 years ago

I thought it was really good.