Los Angeles is supposedly No. 1. But it doesn't look that way to us. In the opening scenes, a woman attending a wedding is murdered in the streets. Later, a bus full of escaping children is halted and some are taken off, their fate unknown.
Local citizens are lined up and casually executed.
And like everyone else in this war zone, they and their aides can be attacked at the least expected moments, shot down in the midst of a mundane act, accompanied by the most incongruous sounds. He doesn't seem particularly sentimental about the decision, and neither does the film. His wife, after a moment of uncertainty, decides that she agrees. Welcome to Sarajevo is inevitably an outsider's version of these events, concentrating deliberately on the viewpoint of journalists reporting the conflict. Yet, like a panoramic Altman movie that backs up every apparent detour with a flash of insight, the result never feels superficial.