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Inspired by true events ?!

posted 13 years ago by pandza-1
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As I know by reading the press and watching the news, the story in this movie is NOT inspired by true events, cause in this movie the bad guys are Serbs and the good guys are Kosovo Albanians, which is not true. If you don't beleive me here is an article from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_theft_in_Kosovo), but you can also find many more information in every news page on internet.

So the people who killed other people for organs in the real life were Kosovo Albanians and that's the fact, and the victims were Kosovo Serbs, so this movie is a FAKE, because if you say in the trailer "inspired by true events" then you can NOT invert the situation just because today is more popular to label Serbs as bad guys and torturers, and Kosovo Albanians like innocent victims. Thanks.

[–] sigelm 13 years ago

Yes, you're right, it is a gross inverting of the rolls between organ thieves and their victims, it is a mockery of all kidnapped people who were later killed for their organs. Like it's not enough that Hague tribunal still cannot act in this case and convict the Albanian terrorists, but they also let these same Albanian criminal bosses finance this tasteless propaganda movie, in which they accuse their victims (Serbs and Roma people) for the atrocities they committed against them. Again: GROSS! A criminal, immoral act that way surpasses and misuses the artistic liberty we otherwise cherish so much.

[–] cudak31177 13 years ago

Joseph Goebbels wouldn't done it better. Does people of France really buy it?

[–] sigelm 13 years ago

Yes, it is Goebbels-like. Imagine Germans doing a film today in which they will show Auschwitz as a concentration camp for Germans ruled by some vicious Jews. You simply can't do some things. I have found an interesting article about the real political background on the following link:
http://www.blogovnik.com/title/Bernard-Kouchner-commissioned-film-about-the-Serb-butchers/62878/

[–] baton-mati 13 years ago

Hah, isn't it the joy of life to speak something we truly believe to be true, and lean on internet to find 'credible facts'... I more than once found uncontested facts that smoking is not at all hazardous for health.

See, living in ex-Yugoslavia gives everyone another perspective on the atrocities that happened during the last decades. Yet, it doesn't fall within logical margins, that the criminals tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity at Hague Criminal Tribune (not only Kosovo, also in Bosnia) can be at the same time victims at the same time, does it? They were simply to busy torturing unarmed civilians. (Oh, sorry, I forgot: internet sources are the revelation of truth, here's some links to satisfy you: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4797564.stm (Butcher of Balkans), http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/jun/10/hague-bosnian-serb-srebrenica-genocide1 (worst massacre in Europe since the Nazis), http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/karadzic/ (World's Most Wanted Men), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratko_Mladi%C4%87#Daughter.27s_suicide (Ratko Mladic profile - sad fact to check is that HIS DAUGHTER committed suicide after learning what horrors her father was committing)
So yes, believe it or not, certain members of Serbian paramilitary forces have done things no horror movie can ever describe. And that is quite a true story (according to some millions direct eyewitnesses you can find scattered around Balkans)

Now, I lived through the atrocities of the violent break-up of Yugoslavia, and had my family members killed, been discriminated beyond ridicule, expelled from home - yet all along I never blamed an entire nation for the genocides that their fellow countrymen committed. Neither Milosevic, nor Mladic, Arkan, or hundreds of thousands hounds responsible for the worst crimes since Nazis -represent the Serbian population. Because I also have lived through peaceful and constructive times with Serbian mates, who agree that no matter what, violence is never the answer and is never excused.
For those who still disagree, and believe that covering responsibility with offensive untruths, trying to put facts of hate before reality, putting racism and discrimination before proper 21 century emancipation, I'd like to believe that the message of constructiveness has not reached them yet from their brethren, or worse yet, they refuse to acknowledge that we should move on, yet responsibility will always remain.

So please, let's let art and movies out of political margins: we already have enough of it on news and our everyday life!!!

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[–] gonnia119 13 years ago

OMG! Albanians got eaven further in ther lies and made a move about CREAZY EVIL SERBS! Yes Serbs are monster they put out your organs and sell them,because thats what they do.I hate this lies and propaganda form Albania and USA.And for those who read papers in Serbia KNOWS that last year was the exact opposite sitution. That the Kosovo Albanians known as Sipatari was the one who were organ traffickers. I can put you here a link but its in Serbian.I just cant Fing belive this....

[–] Moondrop_C 10 years ago

Okay, whoa. This is a French film. Directed by someone named Yann Gozlan--I don't have a clue where he's from since he's got no wikipedia page and only three movies in his list of credits on imdb.

Please don't blame this movie on the U.S.

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