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Motel Nana (2010)
A moving account of post-war life in the Serbian region of Bosnia
"Fuck Sparta and the Spartans!", shouts a student from a Belgrade high- school after declaring his boredom during a history class. The young and passionate professor who was up to that point busy explaining Ancient Greece in an engaging way, remains speechless for a moment. Then in the next, he slaps the student. Everything is captured on a mobile phone camera by someone in class, sent to the media, and an over-sized and far-fetched scandal breaks out. Prime-time television shows debate "school violence" in light of the events – the student is pitied as the victim of a ruthless professor. Of course everything gets overly dramatized, and the professor gets suspended. Out of a job, he has to leave Belgrade and heads for Republica Srpska. And this is where the story begins. His new home is one of the bizarre outcomes of the Yugoslav wars from the 1990s. Though made up in its majority by Serbian ethnics, it is not part of Serbia, but of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Traces of the former military conflicts and bloody guerrilla war are still scattered everywhere here, and tensions between Bosnian Muslims and Serbian Christians did not disappear overnight, albeit no open disputes happen anymore. Once arrived here, the Serbian professor from Belgrade learns how different and personal history can get when you experiment it outside textbooks. He finds the individual stories of people who live here with the war still fresh in their memory. Stories about the power of unhealed wounds and about the desolation of a region where what was not destroyed by the war continues to be destroyed by poverty and a hopeless view of the future. Motel Nana is a moving account of life in former Yugoslavia, in a place largely deserted by people who fled either the war or the economical problems, and cannot make up their minds to ever come back.
Bamboozled (2000)
think twice before you label it!
If you expect a very evident discourse, you won't get much of this movie. Because Spike Lee is not the director who will say it straight in your face. Instead, he is great at suggesting everything. And he also likes to test your limits. If you come from a 'politically correct society', you will be very much annoyed at some points by what seems to be pure racism. But if you're patient enough to get throught the whole movie, you'll see that Lee does nothing more than picturing the stereotypes which are related to races, and the fact that people are many times racist without being even conscious of it. I heard that this film is a reply to Griffith's "Birth of a nation", which was the first American talking film, and at the same time was a long racist declarations, in which the KKK was praised and the coloured people were regarded as sub-humans. So maybe you should take this into consideration too,when you watch the film.
L'avventura (1960)
Life is just another adventure
A great movie with so many themes and symbols that i don't know where to start.. probably the most important is the lack of communication and the superficial way of regarding life. Everyone seems to suffer of these "illnesses", except Claudia. They all perceive life as "l'avventura", an easy adventure. They are all shallow and deceiving. In the middle of a group of unhappy couples, Claudia (Monica Vitti) refuses to see life and love as nothing more than an adventure. Unfortunately, her innocence doesn't find its place in this world: she will be terribly hurt...