In the Land of Blood and Honey
I am very impressed with Angelina Jolie. She wrote, produced, and directed In the Land of Blood and Honey. 
It amazes me that she would tackle such a difficult film about such a difficult and emotional subject. For those who do not know the story, it is a film about the genocide by Serbian nationalists against Bosnian Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Most of us Americans knew little of this war other than what we told on the evening news from 1992 to 1995. Typically we would see footage of snipers killing civilian men, women and children in Sarajevo as they attempted to get food and water. The Serbs lobbed bombs from the hills surrounding the city, killing anyone who happened to be in the way. The world looked on as heavily armed Serbs murdered civilians and destroyed what had been one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Jolie takes us to that war and we see it horrors through the eyes of a Bosnian, Muslim lady named Ajla (Zana Marjanovic), and her lover who is a Serbian, name Danijel (Goran Kostic), the son of a general who wants to wipe every Bosnian Muslim. Yes, this is an extremely complicated love story because Ajla is a prisoner and slave of Danijel and his Serbian fighters.
I thought that Jolie did a really good job with this film. Some of the story is a little disjointed, but she does a great job of showing the horrors and terrors of being a woman slave and whore in the clutches of a military leader who is part of an ethnic cleansing operation directed by his radical father.
I think that most Americans should see such a stark, and violent film about war. Possibly, they will not be so anxious to send off American troops to be part of such horrors.