The film blurs the line between fiction and reality. The actors perform made-up plays with no connection with the grime reality they confront in the war that just had started. Yet, in a crucial sequence, when one of the actors performs a Greek tragedy for a colonel, she saves the real lives of the whole group of actor. Thus, fiction affects reality. And the other way round, the poet Ljubic seems to be fully occupied by his own fiction. Yet, his words and his imagined ideas of the origin of Serbs contributed to the very real start of the war.
In several scenes it appeared that the soldiers did not understand what was the difference between them and their opponents since the opponents often were their very real neighbours. Thus, the war built on fantasised ideas. Visual blurring was notable in the latter part of the film which took place in a snowy landscape enfolded in fog. These scenes reminds me of passages in Angelopoulos' Eternity and One Day. Angelopoulos also blurs the line between fiction and reality.
In several scenes it appeared that the soldiers did not understand what was the difference between them and their opponents since the opponents often were their very real neighbours. Thus, the war built on fantasised ideas. Visual blurring was notable in the latter part of the film which took place in a snowy landscape enfolded in fog. These scenes reminds me of passages in Angelopoulos' Eternity and One Day. Angelopoulos also blurs the line between fiction and reality.