There is so much wrong about this, I am not sure where to start

[dangermousie]

I don't follow American entertainment very closely (after all, I already obsess over Korean one and books and I do need to sleep and play with Baby Mousie sometimes) but I was vaguely aware of Angelina Jolie making her directorial debut in a movie which was a love story set during the civil war in former Yugoslavia. "Hmmmm,can be interesting"

Comments

[grace_om]

She says that's an untrue rumor.

[dangermousie]

Well, she got banned from Bosnia because of it, so the rumor must have some teeth behind it - if it's untrue she should clarify it to them asap so she'd be allowed to film.

[grace_om]

A rumor must be true? Come on. People jump to wrong conclusions on incomplete information all the time. She is, apparently, trying to sort it out. However, even if it's just a love story between a Bosnian woman who's been raped by a Serbian man, and a *different Serbian man who didn't rape anyone* it *still* might not be a good film to make. In other settings, such a basic plot might work, but...

[dangermousie]

True but it's not a random blogger jumping to conclusions - it's a government ministry which I think makes a difference.

[grace_om]

It's a government ministry under pressure from Bosnian rape victims. Of course the government should respond to the sensitivities of their people -- who have suffered so much. Still, the whole thing may be based on a misunderstanding (consider the furor over Shirley Sherrod, for example).

[grace_om]

From what she says, it's a total misunderstanding and she's resubmitted the application to shoot along with a complete script.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/15/angelina-jolie-to-bosnia-_n_764078.html

[dangermousie]

I guess we'll see if she gets her permit back.

[grace_om]

Even if she doesn't, that's hardly proof that it's a "rape love story" -- just that Ministry prefers not to have a controversy.

I'm really not that interested in defending her -- it may be a crappy unwise movie. I just finding it disturbing when people jump to conclusions and outrage, and tweet it all over the world, without trying to learn the fuller details.

[sisterjune]

Yeah I think the movie is a bad idea period but its scary how fast and furious misinformation can spread in this day and age and people are kicking up a fuss already without doing any further investigation and I mean this is a serious thing so before I'd want to believe Jolie would make such a film I'd want to do a bit more reading first. That said this is a sensitive topic to many (both the rape and the vicious ethnic war/genocide) so the knee jerk reactions are understandable to me all the same.

[dangermousie]

Well, I saw it on reputable blogs but I am sure the correction can/will come out just as fast.