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"

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[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.

[hollyxu]

I hope it's not the case, because adding romantic!rape (okay, excuse me, I just vomited a little in my mouth) to MASSIVE GENOCIDE and WAR is just stupid.

Then again, this is the woman who swoops around the world in a private jet to save babies from oppression, so who knows.

[dangermousie]

LOL. When I was pregnant, Mr Mousie and I used to joke that we were lucky our baby would be too boring for her to rescue :)

[dangermousie]

Yes

[arathesane]

Yes, eeriewhisper tweeted that the other day. I was appalled. Look, if it was some kind of disturbing psychodrama - something akin to Stockholm Syndrome/how a captive person might learn to "care" for someone holding them - that I could see. Something similar to Death and the Maiden. Which is not a love story by any means, but I could see making a film similar to Ariel Dorfman's play or the film that was based on it. Ugh I'm an admirer of Dorfman but when I think about who directed that film ... Anyway.

It might not be true but since the Bosnian government revoked her license to film, well, it's fishy. Possibly there could have been a miscommunication. It's quite possible.

I hope that's the case. I really do.

[dangermousie]

Yes, exactly.

[arathesane]

It's, well, it's odd. Hopefully, it was a misunderstanding.

(Ha, now I'm chuckling a little over how many times I repeated certain words in my first reply. I've been up well over a day. It's been a crazy week. Just worrying about my mom's health - she's fine now, but it's been an issue for a few weeks - so I'm glad that it made sense at all.)

[ficchica]

This is an unsubstantiated rumour. Jolie and the main actress have denied it. I think I'll believe them over a newspaper who didn't even publish the script. As for the government department they didn't even read the script when they granted the permit, nor did they ask.

[dangermousie]

I hope so.

[shiegra]

Actually, no.

"They no longer have the authorisation to shoot in Bosnia. They will have it if they send us the scenario with a story which will be different from what we have been told by people who read it," Grahovac told the radio.

In other words, they wouldn't give them the script. Which is kind of telling.

When the Women - Victims of War organisation announced they would boycott the film a few weeks ago, Jolie apparently sent them a letter asking them not to "pass judgement on the film beforehand, especially before they've seen it." Not 'I'm not trying to play off horrific trauma as a sweeping gesture of love!" just 'don't judge it before you see it.' Which I've heard before, most recently when Amanda Palmer was making a gross picture out of herself.

[dangermousie]

Yes, andthey were telling the press 'wait and see complex story blah blah' which is setting off alarm bells to me.