Final metaphor

Rating: 9/10 (6 January 2004)

There is a strong metaphor at the end of the movie: the final scene, showing the soldier on the mine which is zoomed out. This is a metaphor of the situation in Bosnia. Bosnia is like this soldier: sitting on a mine, whatever they do the mine explode. The UN is charged to look at the situation from a close point of view and then to zoom out, on an helicopter. The spectator too is charged: doing nothing does not mean being neutral, so if he/she at the end of the movie zooms out (i.e. does not take care of the situation) he/she is in a way considered "guilty".