To all the critics of the movie..

Rating: 9/10 (5 April 2013)

To all the critics of the movie that are expecting engaging and action-oriented Hollywood glamour, special forces soldiers doing head-shots by a dozen. This movie is about a civil war, not in the ancient times allowing us to make it mythic and heroic, characters becoming black and white. It didn't take place in a distant and exotic country either, a jungle of Vietnam mountains and plains of Afganistan, which would make it easy for ordinary person to distance themselves from the events they see only on TV. It took place less than 20 years ago, probably less than most viewers' age, in the centre of civilized world, among people that lived the same lives we live today. The movie is not about taking sides, being subjective, it's all relative who caused the war, who committed the most horrific atrocities. We say in Europe the region is "the Balkan kettle", boiling with emotions, both positive and negative, everyone is to blame for what has happened. It's about a society living in peace, in multicultural and multi-ethnical harmony, suddenly turning against each other. Neighbours suddenly started not trusting each each other, started hating and slaughtering each other. The scene of Serb soldier and Bosnian girl dancing with each other at the beginning symbolizes that. The movie shows the feelings from the past, trust in people, surface and make an attempt to fight all the differences, despite the horrific events around. This attempt fails, the divisions are too great, trust too difficult to build. It can happen to us, you have to see that beyond slow action and lack of fireworks you are used to in war movies. Is it a perfect movie about this conflict? No. But it presents it down to earth, it present the reality of civil war within a society that lived peacefully for over 50 years, suddenly faced with differences that cause them to fight against each other. This movie should be a lesson of humanity to all of us, war is not an entertainment or action film.