Excellent movie about destructive power of war

Rating: 10/10 (20 January 2012)

I recently saw this movie and was really surprised to see how low rated it is on IMDb. I think most reviewers forget that this movie is not a documentary about the history of conflicts in former Yugoslavia (e.g., blaming A. Jolie for supporting Bosnian side). It is a drama about war and its destructive power revealed through a love story of two people. The movie raises many interesting questions and attempts to address many difficult issues (e.g., sexual violence against women during war, which, in fact, was used by Serbian armed forces on unprecedented scale). It is extremely difficult to objectively depict any conflict and especially an ethnic one, but I doubt that this was what A. Jolie aimed for. I had mixed feelings about watching this film, but it exceeded all expectations. It is rather violent, but probably still far from what a real war looks like.