Choose LOVE over HATE (while you still can = alive with free will)

Rating: 8/10 (4 June 2003)

Hardly known to each other until they meet in a trench between lines of fire, one Bosnian soldier and one Serbian soldier now share the same situation as they must put aside the hatred built between the two countries and count on each other's trust in an attempt to elude from the war scene. Told in a satirically entertaining tone, No Man's Land (2001) is yet the best war-themed film i have seen. (seconded by "Black Hawk Down")
Over the course of the 97-min duration of the film, i was led to think of what would happen if i were put into the situation the characters were presented with. i kept asking myself the question 'what if...?' what if the two soldiers learnt to care for each other in that instance of danger instead of exchanging words of hate? what if they became aware of the fact that how the two governments (to either of which each belongs to) suck bad and screw things up and that doesn't necessarily mean their people have to follow suit? what it would turn out to be if they were people with no historical background (or suffering from a temporary amnesiac symptom)?

a simple conclusion can be easily drawn and put in this way: "politics" is up to no good and one should never get too deep in it.