Srbenka (2018) User Reviews

Fascist history and present of Croatia

[milos_pantovic · 7/10 · 18 September 2018]

This movie is based on true events. The movie depicts one of crimes against humanity committed by croatian catholic militia and epilogue of that crime. Peaceful family of Miroslav Zec was slaughtered in night of December 8th 1991. by Tomislav Mercep and Munib Suljic. Tomislav Mercep is convicted to spend 18 years in Krapinska Spa, Makarska Resort and similar places for vacations, everything paid by croatian government.

Take look at this movie, and try to understand why Tomislav Mercep and his catholic militia had to kill 12 year old girl by shooting her in the head six times using .357 revolver.

Offenders are in spa for real, instead of prisons.

Made to get exposure

[confidencegame · 5/10 · 1 September 2021]

It seems to me that the film Srbenka (and probably the corresponding play "Aleksandra Zec") got made with an aim to get the maximum media exposure for dealing with, at this point, a traditionally sensitive issue, rather than to provide an insightful look at the violence-based-on-nationality, or to offer any workable solution for the issue at hand.

For example, here we meet a 12-year-old girl Nina, who in real life is constantly getting teased and/or bullied due to her Serbian ethnicity. That is unfortunate, for sure, but the film here goes out of its way to say that her whole elementary school experience got ruined by this fact, and that it would have been completely different if she was not a minority. Excuse me? Did the people behind this film ever went to school? Children are constantly and since forever getting teased by their peers for being different, whether it is for their ethnicity, religion, looks, smarts, clothes, or any of the other 6723 reasons. In fact, this film actually shows (at one point) how direct and judgemental schoolchildren can be, but those remarks are only met with the uncomfortable laughter from the crew. Hence, I believe they never cared about peer violence here. They just wanted stir up a big buck.