The Maus
Alex and Selma are a couple in love on a trip to the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Suddenly, Selma feels a mysterious force is chasing them.
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- Cast:
- Alma Terzić , August Wittgenstein , Aleksandar Šeksan , Ella Jazz , Sanin Milavić
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I love this movie so much
Just perfect...
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Just here to mention trigger warnings for rape. PTSD. War mentions. Otherwise well filmed, very realistic.
Reflection of the deep hole war drills in a persons psych and the darkness of ignorance. Not a bad movie, just something you just watch once and leaves you with enough to digest. Fully comprehensible movie for logical and rational thinking people
Correct me if im wrong, but was this movie a metaphor? There is a lot of tension between bosnia and serbia due to the genocide that happened in the mid 90's. The vibes that im getting from this film is that Selma represents Bosnia (specifically the muslim population of Bosnia), Alex represents western Europe, and the two serbians, Vuk and Milos, obviously represent Serbia. So, early on in the film, Selma begins to have hallucinations of the two Serbian men raping her or aggressively apprehending her, which happened thousands of Muslim Bosnians during the genocide. Then, she witnesses Alex being shot, representing her loved ones being killed. Selma obviously has PTSD of the events that happened in her childhood. The "monster" that is shown later, i feel is just a physical manifestation of herself seeking revenge. Alex, representing western europe, is either constantly intervening but doing absolutely nothing to resolve conflict. I might be giving this film to much depth, but thats how i perceived it.
I'm not sure which was worse, the movie or reading the reviews praising the movie. It was terrible. Great premise made bad by a plot way too slow to develop, confusing plot motivators, and a total WTF? ending.