Disappointment awaits the viewer who expects anything to happen in terms of drama or plot in the Serbian anti-war film Ordinary People. This minimalist, deadpan portrait of ethnic cleansing from writer/director Vladimir Perisic follows a day in the life of a young soldier named Dzoni (Relja Popovic) who spends most of it doing the mundane tasks of life and part of it shooting unarmed men in the back. Ordinary People opens with Dzoni making his cot, then eating breakfast, then taking a bus ride, then smoking a cigarette, etc. Finally he.s shown fulfilling his military duties; lining up and executing his captured enemies. Dzoni is clearly dehumanized and may as well be working at McDonalds with the emotion he shows.
It.s a brutal but matter-of-fact look at the Yugoslav conflict, more statement than story, that it is far from conventional in terms any war film we.ve seen.
It.s a brutal but matter-of-fact look at the Yugoslav conflict, more statement than story, that it is far from conventional in terms any war film we.ve seen.
- 11/12/2010
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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