In this movie you'll find a story that could probably be told about any country that has been through a war in the past twenty years. This particular one has been set in Bosnia and shows people coping with post-war recovery. The main characters are what would be a description of any society that went through such an ordeal:
Civilians (that probably went through biggest hardship of them all); Former soldiers; Pre-war criminals turned war heroes turned post-war entrepreneurs; Children growing up with hearsay about life during wartime.
If you abstract that the characters are or have been on one of the sides, and in Bosnia there have been at least the official three, it definitely is a universal story.
What spoils the impression is probably invisible to the average viewer, since it happened during the promotional campaign surrounding the movie. The author used it to point out how one of the sides was "more guilty" than others for conflict and outcome of the war in ex-Yugoslavia. This is probably where you may argue whether contemporary art is relevant when not used for social activism, yet the author misses the mark and succeeds only in finding funding for future projects by like-minded people.
Civilians (that probably went through biggest hardship of them all); Former soldiers; Pre-war criminals turned war heroes turned post-war entrepreneurs; Children growing up with hearsay about life during wartime.
If you abstract that the characters are or have been on one of the sides, and in Bosnia there have been at least the official three, it definitely is a universal story.
What spoils the impression is probably invisible to the average viewer, since it happened during the promotional campaign surrounding the movie. The author used it to point out how one of the sides was "more guilty" than others for conflict and outcome of the war in ex-Yugoslavia. This is probably where you may argue whether contemporary art is relevant when not used for social activism, yet the author misses the mark and succeeds only in finding funding for future projects by like-minded people.