Now... tell me. Who started the war?

Rating: 9/10 (30 March 2008)

It is not every day that you take home a boatload of awards for your first feature film, but that is what writer/director Danis Tanovic did, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe for best foreign film.
This is just about the best anti-war film I have ever seen. It shows the utter stupidity and foolishness of war in that two soldiers, both who knew the same girl, both who spoke the same language, and both who looked and acted and sounded the same were bitter enemies. I have to think back to the Civil War in America, where I had cousins fighting on both sides to see the utter ignorance that war is all about.
Two soldiers, actually three, but he was thought to be dead, end up in a trench in the middle of the Bosnian-Serbian war. The UN Observers get involved, the press is all over it, and the futility of armed aggression is played out in a way that was funny and sad. The ending is a powerful statement on war and should be seen more than once to bring home how we solve nothing when we stop talking and start shooting.