Review of Life Is a Miracle

I won't criticize the movie itself in this review. But the ones that are criticizing the plot not the movie, actors and not the other aspects of this great movie. This movie was made with perfect actors from Ex-Yu countries. In this movie there is no propaganda, when the film starts the first thing you hear is native music that people used to sing long ago in Bosnia and Herzegovina, showing it's beautiful landscapes and people itself and along with this music it makes it more easier (but still hard) to understand our culture. You see a small village that is excited about the railroad that they plan to build because it will connect them with the outer world. Luka himself denied the situation happening in the 90's. He believed that war won't happen and that everything is fine. Milos wasn't a patriot or a nationalist, he was simply a man who hoped to play in the famous Serbian club from Belgrade. He didn't know that he was getting involved into the war. He was later captured by the enemy and taken POW. Kusturica didn't show any suffering of the Milos himself as seen in the movie he was probably beaten, but that doesn't say that it's propaganda that Kusturica did intentionally guards in the prisons used to beat prisoners from every side. People that are Muslims and live in B&H probably thought that the army members from Muslim side that shoot Luka and Sabaha were shown as terrorists and shown as braindeads who are drinking their beer and being barbaric for shouting some words at two of them. They were shown as soldiers who seem like they now what are they fighting for but they are probably excluded from the state as war veterans, they get no respect from the current government, both from Bosnian and Serb side. Muslims were shown as bad guys just two times in this movie. 1st time: By shooting and wounding Sabaha and almost killing both of them, and in this cut they're shown as barbaric and vandalic people (not to forget that many of people in villages in that time weren't educated, so it was easy to control them any side). 2nd time: By taking a shit on the bed when Luka's family returned to the house (end of the movie), and by killing most of the domestic animals and robbing the house (which was aswell done by Serbs so it's not that hypocritical) And the bad things that Serbs did in this movie are also shown: - War profiteers from the Serb side. Murder of medical personnel except Sabaha. Which makes it even for both sides.

And if someone complains about how Luka treats Sabaha in some situations, you have to understand that his only son is missing in this shithole of a village that he moved to, with a war that he didn't wanted and his wife left him for a douchebag from Hungary (no offense) not to mention that she didn't even understand him. This movie shows suffering of both sides but is focused on the Serb side. It is a warning movie not a propaganda movie.