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"The Land of Blood and Honey" film review
Robyn 2022-01-09 08:02:55
Like many war genres, the film chooses the literary and artistic paradigm of war plus love, which has the appeal of epic drama. But the difference is that as a female director, her story is unique in that she cleverly chose a female perspective. Women and war, this is also a theme that male directors are usually keen on. However, in the eyes of male directors, female characters in war often play a role as a foil. They criticize the cruelty of war by using female groups as victims of war; some also regard female groups as men. Redemption of women to display their heroic qualities, thereby shaping the personality charm of the male image; and the use of female characters as peppery and monotonous bloody scenes to please the audience's eyeballs. In Julie’s story, women are indeed victims of war, but they have their own real experience and perception of war, their own cognition and judgment of war, and the role of women is the witness and narrator of the story. Interpret the story in the position of the subject. In the film, the two people who could have become lovers are separated by bombs by two camps, one is an officer with a gun, and the other is an unarmed prisoner who has no freedom at all. It turns out that the equal status of love between men and women is destined to become an unequal transaction. He loves her and only promises her body, and she wants to be free for him more. In the end, he finally found that she had betrayed him, and blasted her head in a rage. This woman he loved most, he had personally wiped out his favorite thing. The war makes two lovers who can grow old together turn their heads against each other, not from the contradiction between them, but from the division caused by national interests; the war also makes the two people meet again in the special context of a confrontation between the enemy and ourselves. Love, hate, and hatred; it is the war that caused the heroine to die at the gun of her lover. This poignant and romantic love story ended in Shakespeare’s dramatic destruction. It classically interprets the anti-humanity of war, and at the same time profoundly interprets it. The thematic meaning of the film.
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In the Land of Blood and Honey quotes
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Ajla: Am I a prisoner?
Danijel: You're not a prisoner if you want to be here.
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Nebojsa: NATO has already started bombing our positions. That fucker Clinton is trying to save his ass at home in Washington. Just read this.
Senior Commander: "Intervening to put an end to ethnic cleansing and mass atrocities." Apparently they need to save face, make some noise, and throw their idea of justice at a country they know nothing about.