The Muslims who surround the militia are entirely dehumanised, Krstic himself points out that this is drawing of tropes of HollywoodвЂ™s representation of the Vietnam war where вЂCharlieвЂ™ was an invisible presence in the jungle. That said I did find the film disturbing. One of the ways this is done is through the casting of Velimir Bata Zivojinovic as the unitвЂ™s commander В Zivojinovic starred in many Partisan films that were important in the myth-making of TitoвЂ™s Yugoslavia.

While itвЂ™s easy to see why the film appears to be pro-Serbian, as we rarely get any other view than the militiaвЂ™s, Krstic also demonstrates the filmвЂ™s nuances principally that the ragtag bunch of militia are not portrayed as likeable characters and in this the film is also challenging SerbiaвЂ™s national mythology. In an excellent article Igor Krstic ( ) notes that although Croatian critics dubbed the film pro-Serbian (Croatia was also embroiled in the war against Serbs/Serbia) it was also the first Serbian film to be successful in neighbouring countries after the war ended. Unsurprisingly the film divided opinion when it was release. Much of the narrative features flashbacks of how the disparate members of the militia joined up from the viewpoint of a number of them recuperating, after the event, in hospital. After scene setting, with a newsreel about the Brotherhood and Unity (such irony runs throughout the film) tunnel first opened in the 1970s, most of the plot takes place 20 years later in the dilapidated and unfinished tunnel as the militia seek shelter from the Bosnian army. The main protagonist is Milan who, in pre-war years, ran a business with his Muslim mate. Its complex structure focuses on a band of Bosnian-Serb militia who, amongst other things, burn Muslim villages. The abomination of war is accentuated in civil war Pretty Village, Pretty FlameВ (original title translates better as Beautiful villages burn beautifully) covers the post-Yugoslavian war of the 1990s that foreshadowed the current вЂconflictвЂ™ between вЂthe westвЂ™ and Muslims.

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