Title: superficial, stereotypical view of Bosnian war
Product review: 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.
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