Ugh. This one is from the list. It's been sitting on the tv stand since I moved to LA. I should have left it sitting there or returned it to Netflix without watching it. I'm guessing the book says to watch it because it's the only (or one of a few at most) movie to depict the Serbian-Bosnian conflict. This movie, however, does not do so in an interesting, engaging, enlightening, or inspiring fashion.
It's basically the story of three soldiers: a Serbian and Bosnian who have been trapped in a trench in the middle field of the whole war situation (the Bosnian seeking refuge after becoming lost and the Serbian trapped after being sent to kill the first); the third is a Bosnian who was presumed dead and placed upon a particularly nasty mine but, lo and behold, he's not dead and now he can't move or he will be. The UN gets "involved" and, well, major plot spoiler: Bosnian #1 kills the Serbian after some thrilling "you started the war no you started the war" dialogue, a UN guy kills the Bosnian for killing the Serbian, and the other Bosnian can't be moved because the mine can't be defused--so the UN pretends to save him but leaves him laying in the trench. Then the movie ends.
I am NOT a fan of movies that are all about political situations but refuse to sides, refuse to make a comment other than "yeah, this sucks and there's nothing to be done about it because they're just going to kill each other anyway so we might as well leave the whole situation laying on a mine so that it will eventually blow itself to bits killing itself and anyone within a large radius." Have some balls, pick a side.
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