I would not dare to say that movie is an eye opener, unlike my fellow Anonymous New Yorker. I would not even believe someone educated enough can say that a movie (any movie) is an eye opener. A movie is a movie and can't be a substitute for real knowledge, book reading and history research. From this point of view I would agree with those who said that this specific movie distributes ideas meant to be planted in the minds of people who think movies (this one specifically) can open their eyes. This is the targeted audience and with a reason. "Bulgaria was a fascist country after all, during World War 2 at least" - oh, well, but so was Germany, Italy, Romania, Hungary, France, because of its collaborative government, etc. I would say so was even Yugoslavia since it signed a treaty with Nazi Germany, much the same as Bulgaria did, but then there was a coup there which dismissed that treaty shortly before Germany invaded. In the same train of thoughts one can say - Macedonia was a communist country after all, for much longer time than Bulgaria was a fascist country. And we know that there is only one small step going from fascism to communism. In a way Macedonia continues with the policies of the communist past even today. So what, do we need to find another eye-opening movie for that? I gave 2 to that movie only with respect to the effort some of the artists put into it. Otherwise, for me at least it is just serving a political agenda.
Review of The Third Half
