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22 out of 26 people found the following review useful:
Something you should watch, 22 April 2000
Author:
zzis
I have been in Sarajevo during the horrible civil war, and this movie shows how really it happened. I have been in all of the places they showed in the movie and, yes it is how happened. Acting is great. Actors did very good job, also music was good. This movie is one of those movies who present the real war (like Saving Private Ryan), not like many fake movies do. It is worthy of watching.
17 out of 20 people found the following review useful:
An outstanding film on the war in Sarajevo, 5 November 2000
Author:
Dana Wang from Taipei, Taiwan
This film made a tremendous impact on me. I am stunned, overwhelmed and
profoundly moved. Watching this remarkable photoplay, my emotion is intense.
It immediately reminded me of a nonfiction book I had read about the war in
Bosnia, it feels like all the things described in that book come to life.
It's shocking.
All the events depicted in this movie ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Children getting
killed by pieces of shrapnel, friends being on opposite sides and their
friendships being torn apart by the war, losing your family, friends,
neighbors, attending one and yet another funeral of someone you knew, people
being shot while they carry water...my heart broke when I watched these
cruel facts portrayed in this impassioned work. It is so true to life that I
felt as if I was there, witnessing the whole thing.
Based upon a true story, "Shot Through the Heart" is about a life long
friendship between two marksmen who are residents in Sarajevo. When the war
breaks out, Vlado, a Muslim, and Slavko, a Serb, are on opposite sides and
eventually, they will have to face each other. People in Sarajevo used to
live peaceful and carefree lives, now their lives become tragedies all
because of this hideous war.
History, the sense of retaliation and false beliefs make human beings turn
into killing machines. War is destruction and agony. If only we could
realize it and remember the lessons we've learned. If only we could reach
world peace sooner.
This war drama is finely filmed, and the acting is very believable. The
movie helps us understand more about the ex-Yugoslavia war that took place
in the early nineties and makes us think about it, how wars affect people
and the importance of making peace. I heartily recommend this film to
anybody who is interested in what happened in Sarajevo.
17 out of 20 people found the following review useful:
Great acting and all TOO real for most., 27 July 1999
Author:
gozor
This was definitely one of the best movies I have seen in quite a while. It wasn't the most exciting and it wasn't the most inspiring, it was simply the best drama and acting depicting a horrific situation. This movie may not necessarily make you feel better about yourself but it certainly makes you happy to be living in a place where you're safe. The focus on two men who are life-long best friends and get pulled apart by surrounding events is a story that tracks back to the beginning of time and was most noticeable in the U.S. civil war. The buildup to the inevitable confrontation at the end was all too realistic and very well done. The scenes where people are okay and then suddenly fall over from being shot were very well depicted. One of the more subtle but well-done transitions was the eroding condition of the buildings and landscape as the war went on. This is one of those movies that is about something real and horrible and therefore rather difficult to watch.
7 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
accurate, 29 September 2005
Author:
LongCarbine from United States
I was in Sarajevo at the time (7 years old) and the movie is pretty
accurate.
Uniforms and bad accents don't matter, its a good story, especially the
trench type of warfare that was fought. A bit different from the
blitzkrieg style campaigns that we see now days over the TV in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
There are a lot of small details that make it very realistic, like the
wood for burning during the winter stockpiled in the appartments, the
way people die, living conditions in general, no water, no electricity,
barelly enough food, etc
Somethimes that period of my life seems like it was only a dream...
8 out of 11 people found the following review useful:
Excellent, 2 May 2002
Author:
Adam1983 from California, USofA
Shot through the Heart is a movie about two best friends who end up on different sides of a war. This movie goes through the horror and sadness of war and how it can tear even the best of friends apart. The sniping scenes give you an adrenaline rush. The anticipation is brutal. And on top of it all is the great acting. You will not be disappointed.
11 out of 18 people found the following review useful:
"STtH's" Bosnian Civil War: Black is White, Up is Down, 16 November 2005
Author:
Alexei Kalinov from Ukraine
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
I saw this film a while ago on a Video CD.
I will 1st mention the good points.
The movie, at first, at least tries to appear that it is not biased,
like not showing one character as black and the other as white. Both
main characters are friends and co-exist very well in an country and
economy that is not booming while at the same time not failing. Their
families get together and have parties and they practice their favorite
sport, Sport Rifle shooting, as comrades not as competitors.
But, after the 1st 15 minutes the plot runs into a fork in the road.
The audience is expected to believe that for some unknown reason these
friends must hate each other. That for some unknown reason Bosnia is
now on a path to conflict. Sure, the script adds in TV footage which
the characters appear to be watching live news programs in English, but
the clips are from 1993 not 1992 when the war began.
The history, the 1990 elections, the people who caused the war are not
mentioned. The movie tries to place the blame with Karadzic, who had
been a Presidential candidate and leader of the Bosnian Parliament's
2nd Largest Party(SDP). According to the Constitution of Bosnia, the
SDP was to have the Presidency in 1992, but there was a Coup in
January. The Bosnian Islamic Democratic Action Party seized total
control and held a segregated referendum in March in which it declared
itself the law in Bosnia and announced Secession.
The history of the IDAP begins with Bosnian Muslim Alija Izetbegovic, a
man suspiciously absent from "STtH". He was a student of Nazism in WW2.
He even wrote his own "Mein Kampf" in which he stated: "It is not in
fact possible for there to be any peace or coexistence between 'the
Islamic Religion' and non-Islamic social and political institutions".
In 1990 he lost the IDAP elections to "pro-Yugoslavia Moderate" Fikret
Abdic, a Bosnian Muslim, that worked with Christian Serbs during the
Civil War, and who treated his supporters like brothers. Abdic was
prevented from taking power by Izetbegovic, who lost the elections but
seized the seat of power.
The events from above are missing from the movie, but they are the
factual events that lead to the war.
There were problems with props too. Serb soldiers in the movie were
wearing Soviet WW2 helmets, which they did not use. Also the one
soldier was holding an M-1944 WW2 rifle only used by USSR not
Yugoslavia.
The Director and Script Writers had a chance, but they chose to
re-write history.
6 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
Another Magnificent and Touching Movie About the Bosnian War and the End of a Friendship, 4 April 2004
Author:
Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In Sarajevo, Muslims, Croats and Serbs live in peace. The Muslim Vlado
(Linus Roache) and the Serb Slavko (Vincent Perez) are best friends, almost
brothers, and the best shooters in Yugoslavia. They are going to the
Olympics in Barcelona representing Yugoslavia. However, with the Bosnian
war in 1992, Slavko joins the Serbian army for training snipers and Vlado
joins the militia in the streets of Sarajevo to defend his people. The duel
between the former friends ends in a tragic way. This is another magnificent
and touching movie about the Bosnian war. The first time I watched it was
two years ago, and the school teacher of my son borrowed it to present to
her class. This week, I have watched `Harrison`s Flowers', `Vulkovar' and
`Pretty Village, Pretty Flame', all of them about this sad war, but having
different approaches. I decided to see `Shot Through the Heart' again. All
these movies show friends and lovers getting apart after years of friendship
or love due to this stupid war. This movie is literally a shot in the heart.
Impossible not be touched by such a sad story. My vote is
eight.
Title (Brazil): `Um Tiro No Coração' (`A Shot in the Heart')
3 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Let it go, 24 April 2007
Author:
ejk5019 from United States
You guys are missing the point, honestly, UNIFORMS, incorrect use of a mosin M-44? Who cares, it's the message that counts. Maybe I have to apologize for having a life outside of looking up little discrepancies in movies, but I try to take the movie for what it's worth rather than pick it apart. It was an HBO movie, yes, it's going to be in English! Get used to it, most movies are written in the language of the intended country of release. It's a message that goes back to the US civil war but brought up into modern times. It was a well made movie with good acting and an exciting screenplay. I was thuroughly entertained while at the same time being forced to know that the back-story was taken directly out of real life. Great movie (period)
Wow! What a pleasant surprise!, 23 January 2012
Author:
buiger from Monaco
Excellent TV production, harsh, moving, real. To watch it hurt me
almost at a physical level, I have lived in Sarajevo, I know the city,
it's people, and I understand their plight. Take it from somebody who
has been there; this is a movie well made, the situations, feelings and
emotions it depicts are very real, almost exactly as it was. There is
no overt dramatization here, no going over the top; I almost felt as if
I was there... Unbelievably good for a TV movie.
If there is one weak point in the film, it is that they should have
utilized local actors, they should have filmed it in the original
language with subtitles. That would have made the movie even more
powerful. Well done!
friendship vs loyalty and affection against honor & courage.. who wins??, 15 July 2008
Author:
muzafar.h.bokhari (amraampk) from lhr
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
This is an actual story about two friends. one Albanian Muslim , the other Christian Serb. They both were born and grew up in Yugoslavia(Bosnia Herzegovina now). They were friends since childhood. When they become young men, both gained perfection in 5the art of shooting as a sport. both had common dream , to represent their country into Olympics. vlado saleemovic had wife and daughter while slavko stanovic had a fiancée only. then events began to unfold.a civil war commenced.Yugoslavia began to disintegrate.New states Slovenia and Croatia emerged as independent nations.Bosnia decided to join ranks with them. This wasn't acceptable for the Serb community coz it would separate their national heritage with original Serbia but the Croats and Muslims wanted it. slavko being a Serb entered into the military service for his Serb army. He became a sniper, he began to hunt down the Croats and Muslim civilians, coz he believed they had done a great betrayal to the motherland which was liberated with great sacrifice from the clutches of Nazi Germany. slavko s own family was shattered and devastated in the ww 2. vlado s nation now is extreme desperate situation. They are being slaughtered and butchered like cockroaches, they are placed in Serb concentration camps with far more than any pathetic conditions and they are besieged in their own capital city Sarajevo by Serb snipers and gunners. now vlado holds his gun to defend his own community. Both friends are now war adversaries but one fear lurks in both their hearts , nobody wants to square off against each other, because of their old time sake , they both offered each other 1st ticket out of that war zone. One night in the middle of that brutal war they finally met each other after a long time.When vlado was coming to his home slavko fired at him but missed intentionally and deliberately. Then he embraced vlado and made him entered inside his house, it looked to me there is no any rivalry of war among them but instead they are like blood brothers regardless of what s going on in their surroundings. That was also the night of Barcelona Olympics closing ceremony. Slavko here said , so we finally made it to the Olympics. Vlado asked why didn't slavko shot him , slavko replied why didn't u shot me at that day , (vlado also had an encounter with slavko but he spared his life and slavko knew it). Slavko told his buddy why he is doing it , its not good to kill his own people but what they had done can also not be accepted and forgiven. Both men embraced each other , said good bye perhaps for the last time as friends. Next morning comes the most toughest moment of the movie ,the real event. Slavko put his military uniform and went outside on his sniper rampage. there he saw valdo aiming at him with a distance. Both men looked at each other. Now its there eyes only which are speaking to each other. Watching into each other s eyes they are now communicating to each other. Vlado was saying ,infact pleading,,' plz don't go , stop it , for god sake, for old times, otherwise i will have no choice but to kill u'. slavko replied', u want to kill me , go ahead do it, u do what u think is right , u entitled to it, but i ll also do what i believe in. I cant stop u from doing your job but u cant also stop me from doing my duty. Then vlado pulled the trigger and shot slavko to death. After killing him he broke down into tears this was the most painful agonizing moment in his life, killing the man who was most dearest to him outside his kith and kin. In my opinion this war did so much damage to a land but inspite of it wasn't capable of devastating the love friendship and affection of two friends who later become enemies but their regard and care each other still triumphed over hate and prejudice , when u see the final parts of the movie. This movie is based on a shattering true events (what i learned), i think most people should see it , it can teach you good meanings of this life. both actors made a very good job and worked together by sinking deep into their characters to make this story heart touching.
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