NO MAN'S LAND

No Man’s Land is a touching story that is able to portray war, as it truly is, with no fluff, fake, heroism that is found is most Hollywood war productions. This Bosnian-French-Italian-Belgian-Slovenian co-production produced a storyline that is able to provide a complete objective third party perspective of a complicated situation. The local ethnic conflict between the Bosnian and Serbian soldiers produced a very realistic account of how war continues to divide a nation, a nation that is not yet able or ready to come together to live in a peaceful co-existence manner. The film does an inspired job of showing how complicated ethnic conflict truthfully is in reality. The film shows all the various aspects of the conflict from the media, to the UN, to the fighting soldiers and how their actions continue to fuel this national conflict. The fighting that takes place among the trapped Bosnian and Serbian soldiers gives the viewer a glimpse of how warped the minds of humans can become as a result of years of conflict and war. In this particular incident the soldiers from both sides did not have a legitimate reason as to why they were fighting one another. Each gave the typical answer of the other side started it; they burned our villages and towns, etc. The only real thing that the soldiers believe in is the idea of hatred for their fellow brother. They only know that they should hate their enemy because they are their enemy and for that lone reason they deserve to die. This is a very intricate film that is full of lots of meaningful insight into how war actually works. I could go on about several other aspects of the film but I’ll leave you to actually see the film your self and be your own judge and critic