Monday, August 31, 2009

No Man's Land

Written and directed by Danis Tanović in 2001. This was one of those movies that makes your guts twist into knots. When enemies are forces into close quarters together, they eventually learn that they are not that different. This was an excellent story that places a face on the atrocities of warfare. When two Bosnian-Serb soldiers recon a trench, the leader rigs a booby trap (a mine under a corpse) that will explode the minute that the enemy tries to retrieve the body. Unfortunately, the leader is immediately killed leaving his subordinate in a face off with a Bosniak, the friend of the person that they set up. When the "corpse" awakens, they must now deal with his inability to move without being blown to bits. While the balance of power between the two shifts back and forth NATO is called in to assist in the matter in hopes of a resolution. 'Nuff said. This one really requires seeing.

1 comment:

  1. It looks like our wavelength was broken. I opted for the grand controversial epic documentary.

    I really loved No Man's Land though...it's quite heartbreaking how it ends.

    I really like your countdown of the movies you've seen on the sidebar too.

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