Description: This provocative and disturbing movie is based on an incident that happened in the first winter of the war in Bosnia in 1992. Two childhood friends, one a Serb the other a Muslim, square off on opposite sides of war, their friendship tattered and in ruins. Interactive Menus, Production Notes, Scene access, Trailer
Loses in translation I'm a Bosnian Muslim but I truly feel this movie is pure gold. Although I disagree with some of the ideas that movie is trying to convince us, the movie is great. The acting, dialog and action is great. THE BAD PART IS THAT IT LOSES IN TRANSLATION. THE MOVIE IS TRAGI-COMEDY AND THE DIALOGUE IS GREAT BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TRANSLATE IT INTO ENGLISH. THAT'S WHY A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WATCH IT AND APPRECIATE IT FOR HOW GOOD IT REALLY IS. SORRY FOR A LOT OF CAPS.
Moving Shows how a war can turn reality upside down
could have been better written Could have been better written, better acted, better photographed. Way too many flashbacks. This whole thing is kind of a mess, really. Lacks cohesiveness. Premise is interesting enough and a truly gifted director might have made a great film out of it.
The guy who directed this is no Akira Kurosawa, that's for sure.
superficial, stereotypical view of Bosnian war This flick has all the sophistication of a music video. It is basically an excuse for the director to show guys getting drunk and shooting off guns in a village in flames at night time, while Yugoslav rock music blares. The relationship between the Serb and Muslim boyhood-friends-turned-enemies should be the crux of the movie but it is never adequately explored.
It is no different than every other movie on the Bosnian war, with the exception of No Man's Land. It does not show the geopolitical situation of the time or the machinations of elites but rather assumes the bloodshed was the result of ancient or grassroots ethnic hatreds. Obviously there were "ordinary" Croatians, Serbians, and some Bosniacs involved in atrocities, but this is only part of the story.
I got the feeling that this is the kind of movie made by a director who spent the early 1990s in Germany.
The Simple Truth I found the movie thought provoking. One line in the movie said "War is a Whore". I don't think it could be more well stated. Yes, translation was a bit rough around the edges so I'm sure some verbal effects were lost, but I don't think it detracted from the movie. A little hard to watch. But truth is often not kind.
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