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 Paul Pawlikowski,
Great Britain, 1993,
90 min.
BBC-Bookmark Production
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The deconstruction of identity in three
stages. First : "the other cannot live amongst us
just like that", which amounts to the demand for an
abandonment of his specific cultural, national, ethnic,
religious, political and other baggage. Second :
"the other cannot live amongst us", the
consequence of which is expulsion, banishment and other
means of purging. Third : "the stranger cannot
live", which is for those who are still around after
the two previous stages. The last stage only forms the
triumphant consequence of the idea that identity is not
formed by diversity but by elimination. Bosnia, in the
nineties. In contrast to the emotional rhetoric of
Bernard-Henri Levy's Un jour dans la mort de Sarajevo
and Bosnia!, Serbian Epics 's seemingly
bleak and distant anthropological look into the enemy's camp
goes way beyond the subject of ethnicity. |
