Jey047
Joined Mar 2002
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I tried to be fair to this "documentary", knowing from reviews I had read that the filmmaker had a blatant bias. The problem isn't just the bias which without any irony interprets and misinterprets historical facts to fit the agenda of the filmmaker, but the fact that the film total jumps over entire years of history of the country it's claiming to support and historical events that totally contradict the filmmaker's self-stated goal of presenting the Serbian people as the sole defenders of the Yugoslav state.
That the film presents the "history of Yugoslavia" solely from the perspective of the Serbs is unapologetically and unabashedly demonstrated from the the first 5 minutes and throughout the entire movie, but this is easily forgiven if the filmmaker was honest about this being the purpose of the film. The filmmaker does not even interview a single non-Serb about the experiences, perceptions and history of Yugoslavia from a non-Serb perspective. In fact, the only non-Serb citizen of the former Yugoslavia or person of an ethnic group/background found in Yugoslavia was Slovene politician Joe Mencinger, who's sole purpose is to share his perspective of the effects of EU membership on Slovenia, never to share his perspective of Slovenia's experiences in a Serb dominated Yugoslavia.
Serbian anti-Yugoslav & anti-egalitarian policies and actions, such as the murder of non-Serb politicians and activists by Serb officials (even in the Yugoslav parliament by Serb politicians), the violent suppression of civil rights for non-Serbs in both the (Serbian) Kingdom of Yugoslavia and SFR Yugoslavia are all totally ignored because they're totally irrelevant to the story of Serbian victimization and martyrdom being told by the filmmaker.
In the end, this isn't really a film about Yugoslavia at all, let alone it's falling apart and the forces the lead to it's demise. This film is entirely about enforcing the Serbian sense of victimization and martyrdom that has been a cultural staple of Serbian identity since their defeat at Kosovo Polje more than 600 years ago and the justification of Serbian crimes against their neighbours during the past hundred years, just as the filmmaker unintentionally outlined in the first 5 minutes of his movie.
This could have been an open and honest examination of the Serbian perspective and experience during the Yugoslav years and the Balkan war years. It should have been. But it's not. A wasted effort.
That the film presents the "history of Yugoslavia" solely from the perspective of the Serbs is unapologetically and unabashedly demonstrated from the the first 5 minutes and throughout the entire movie, but this is easily forgiven if the filmmaker was honest about this being the purpose of the film. The filmmaker does not even interview a single non-Serb about the experiences, perceptions and history of Yugoslavia from a non-Serb perspective. In fact, the only non-Serb citizen of the former Yugoslavia or person of an ethnic group/background found in Yugoslavia was Slovene politician Joe Mencinger, who's sole purpose is to share his perspective of the effects of EU membership on Slovenia, never to share his perspective of Slovenia's experiences in a Serb dominated Yugoslavia.
Serbian anti-Yugoslav & anti-egalitarian policies and actions, such as the murder of non-Serb politicians and activists by Serb officials (even in the Yugoslav parliament by Serb politicians), the violent suppression of civil rights for non-Serbs in both the (Serbian) Kingdom of Yugoslavia and SFR Yugoslavia are all totally ignored because they're totally irrelevant to the story of Serbian victimization and martyrdom being told by the filmmaker.
In the end, this isn't really a film about Yugoslavia at all, let alone it's falling apart and the forces the lead to it's demise. This film is entirely about enforcing the Serbian sense of victimization and martyrdom that has been a cultural staple of Serbian identity since their defeat at Kosovo Polje more than 600 years ago and the justification of Serbian crimes against their neighbours during the past hundred years, just as the filmmaker unintentionally outlined in the first 5 minutes of his movie.
This could have been an open and honest examination of the Serbian perspective and experience during the Yugoslav years and the Balkan war years. It should have been. But it's not. A wasted effort.
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