Introduction
No Man’s Land explores the harsh realities of war field and various conflicts such as political, ideological and political power. Bosnian director Danis Tanovic is the director and writer of the movie No Man’s Land and one can see that the movie that permeate with rage and the travesty of war. Director generates the movie based on the war between Bosnia and Serbia and the key point is related with the political crisis between the two nations. As a path breaking one the movie No Man’s Land reveals a Bosnian perspective about the conflict, crammed with absurdity, futility and never ending tragedy.
The movie underlines the failure of the international community and organizations especially United Nations to resolve the dilemma. The entire movie put forward the identical perceptive that political will and ideological support on the part of the international community is more essential than military power and negotiations to resolve the issue.
Main body
The director Danis Tanovic himself serve up in the Bosnian militia and he tells the tale of three men fascinated in a trench, two Muslim man and another one Serb and the irrationality of their fate. The movie starts in Tuzla, a Bosnian town where some soldiers of Bosnian army who stayed and takes relief under the cover of night. In the next morning they identified that they have staggered close to the Serbian front lines. The Serbian army attacked them and Chinki (Branko Djuric) is survived and identified that Serbian soldiers set up a mine in the body of a Bosnian soldier. Because of the plight of his comrade Chinki killed a Serbian soldier and takes another, Nino (Rene Bitorajac). Both of them begin trying to catch attention from other side. Under the leadership of Sergeant Marchand (Georges Siatidis) a squad of French soldiers associated with United Nations arrived and the two soldiers found that the dead Bosnian soldier Cera (Filip Sovagovic) is alive and having tripped a land mine in his body.
The criticism reaches its zenith when the viewer understands the passive status of both Bosnian and Serbian armies. It is a part of ironical thought is that the authorities of both Bosnia and Serbia are over concerned with these trapped soldiers but no one tries to defuse the mine and save the life of these helpless men. Military power and weapons are enough for both sides but these forces were failed to save the life of three soldiers. It is clear that military operations and political negotiations are only for personal profits and it satisfies the authorities. Anthony Leong rightly comments that; “In addition, the film illustrates how the lack of political will on the part of the international community (particularly the United Nations) condemned the people of Bosnia, Croatia, and ‘rump’ Yugoslavia to six years of bloody war from which emerged many ‘losers’ and few ‘winners’” (Leong).
Exchanges between Chinki and Nino often become uproarious and their arguments about who started war make known the public perceptive about war. Both Bosnians and Serbians need victory and international status and authorities give more emphasis on military operations and political interactions. Elimination of persons, rulers and forces are not the real way to the real peace. Here democratic reforms which ensure peace are essential for both nations.
Director Danis Tanovic underlines the need of an ideological perceptive is essential al than political concern in this critical moment. The sufferings of the three soldieres in the trench explore less about the individual pain but about the profundity of their people’s or authorities hatred for one another. Political interferences and egos negatively affect the well intentioned efforts of an organization.
Viewer can feel the black humor that when Sergeant Marchand finds his hands tied by his authorities. The United Nation’s force distorted the situation more problematic and explosive. United Nations efforts to diffuse the mine and resolve the conflict is confined with political interference and self interests. Because of the fear about the public relations outlandish the military ends up their action. The character of Colonel Soft (Simon Callow) exposes the in efficiency of UN force resolving the crisis and he simply prevent his subordinates in resolving the danger. The movie criticizes the media also because media always seek sensational news. The media always uncover the reality of Warfield and concentrates the heroic scarifies of the three soldiers.
Conclusion
To conclude, as a war movie No Man’s Land put forwards the emptiness and futility of war and it also demonstrates the in efficiency of military operations and political negotiations in regional or international conflicts. All of the war movies totally opposite of the usual American success myth, No Man’s Land bespeaks the illogicality and ineffectuality of war and leaves us with the haunting image of a man trapped on a live mine. Danis Tanovic gives a different perceptive in the issue of war between Bosnia and Serbia that reveal the insufficiency of military forces and political interactions and the need of ideological perceptive in peace process.
Works Cited
Leong, Anthony. No Man’s Land Movie Review. Media Circus. 2001. Web.