musasejdinovic

I know that I will sound like a douche, but, what kind of a world is this, in which a Marvel movie about fictional superheroes gets a billion dollar success, while this movie, about real superheroes, gets a loss at the box-office?

This is the type of story that doesn't rely only on the source material (which is pretty rich). It has a fantastic character development, very deep and three-dimensional human story, all accompanied by great and thoughtful writing. You will not just be driven by the sheer excellence of a real and true story, but with the careful and amazing structure of said story, which deservedly belongs to the art of cinema.

If there was a film when it's justified to say "This story should be in a movie!", this is the one. It lived to the hype of this catchphrase, because both the director and the screenwriters made the hell of a job to tell us the story we need to know, and which these brave men truly deserve.

Without any doubt, one of the best movies that I've ever watched.

"Nafaka is something strange in Bosnia. It is luck; and it isn't. It is fate; and it isn't. It is God's giving, and yet may not be."

I was born in 1993 in Bosnia. I don't have memories on war, but as far as I could tell, my parents and their generation could say a lot of that terrible conflict that they lived. My Nafaka is like that: I know so much about said war, but I cannot connect those stories with anything real. I sometimes feel lucky cause of that, and sometimes it makes me sad. Lucky cause there is no single experience from the war that could mess with my life and sad cause I know so much about it. That's my own Nafaka: so far but yet so close to something like that.

Nafaka is a story about realistic and wonderful people in times that are surreal and awful. Director and screenwriter chose to tell a story from a perspective of a stranger. Janet Hugh is that stranger, whom the career brought to Sarajevo and her Nafaka made her stay there. She discovered love and life in a place where both of those things were dying. She found people who were surviving, but all that they wanted is to live.

There are so many different topics that "Nafaka" is showing to us: life in times of war and after war; what are the things that gave people energy when everything was draining that energy away; what kind of consequences you will endure once you survived something terrible; etc etc etc.

I know that this movie didn't get the attention it deserves, so I'm gonna recommend it to every single person that I know. Everybody need this film. We Bosnians don't really know how to translate or even explain this strange word, Nafaka, so Jasmin Durakovic decided to tell us a story about it.

Is Nafaka life, or is life Nafaka? Find it out on your own.