The Strained Social Relations in a region plagued by Conflict

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/01/19/blood-and-honey-courageous

Angelina Jolie has made her film production debut not as a weapon wielding super spy, but this time on the other side of the camera. As the director of her latest film "In the Land of Blood and Honey", she adresses the deep social strains and conflict that engulfed the Balkan peninsula 20 years ago and has remained ever since. Her story recalls a period of Civil War, where Religion, politics, and nationality tore apart what once was, and is trying to retain, the most beautiful land and people in the world. In the column that I provided the link for above, Liz Braun, a columnist for the Toronto Sun, attempts to review Jolie's work and hit hard on the deep undertones of the work. "It is a story about physical and emotional survival" she writes. Indeed, how can anything last in the ugly realities of war. Braun also comments on the overall response for the film. Serbians were angry at one point and Bosniaks at another, only echoing the strains that caused the conflict to begin in the first place. Braun brings across the points and provides a solid account on the film overall.