Dört Duvar Saraybosna (2012) User Reviews

An auspicious start to what promises to be a distinguished film-making career...

[elsinefilo · 28 August 2013]

Nadim Güç's Four Walls Sarajevo has just been released on Youtube. I think the timing is really meaningul with the sabre-rattling by the hawks in USA and pressure from its allies for a tougher stand against Assad regime in Syria. It's a shame that the world has yet to learn that war brings nothing but tears. It's been so long that the USA brought so called democracy to Iraq and yet the violence never stops. Violence, which has become quotidian in the lives of simple Iraqi people has claimed more lives than Saddam had ever done. Four Walls Sarajevo was inspired from a newsreel footage that was shot during the Bosnian war. The footage shows people who are trying to run away from snipers by hiding beneath a ramshackle bus. Those who are show down by the snipers are left behind and the survivor can't really do anything for their friends. The abject helplessness of people, the meaningless of war, the senseless, inter-communal ethnic violence…This is what war brings and this is what Güç's movie portrays excellently…At the beginning of the movie, we see such a young man who checks out a street for snipers with his mirror. He has to go back home to his father. The father has been crippled in a bombardment. His son is the only one he can hold on to now. They live in a small flat in a war-torn building. In the narrow confines of war life, they need to hang on. One day, somebody will start knocking their doors and their life will change forever...The story is quite compelling and the twist in the end really touches you. Senad Alihodzic's performance as Mirza as really great though I can't say the same for the other two actors. I assume Bahri Uka is not really a professional actor since this seems to be his acting debut. The story could actually be more convincing. For instance, Mirza and his father talks about the guy who knocks at the door as if he's miles away though the door is only a meter away. In Mirza's situation that's understandable but his father seems like perfectly sensible guy in spite of the fact he has been locked in that room for more than two years. In spite of its simple flaws, Nadim Güç's movie deserves to be watched at least once. Güç sounds like a promising film-maker. I am looking forward to seeing his next short film," The Journey"