No Man's Land

No Man’s Land was a fairly interesting movie.

First off, I appreciated that it was a shorter movie. It kept my attention and it made me laugh in a couple of parts. I liked when the Bosnian and Serb soldiers were in the trench and they kept switching their dominance because of who had the gun.

I thought it was very smooth how the UN French guy and the reporter switched back and forth between French and English. I would not realize that they had switched languages because of how fluid it was.

The secretary-like figure from the UN confused me a little. She did the whole “Look at my breasts!” body language when she was in the office and then they brought her out to no man’s land. That was not very smart. She seemed very ditzy and out of place.

I liked the little detail that almost every character in the movie had a picture of someone special to them in their wallet, whether it is a girlfriend or a large naked man. To each his own, I guess.

The ending was only half of what I expected. I had a feeling they would both get out of the trench alive, but I thought they would stay alive and get to their own respective sides. I friend on the bomb I thought would get out alive as well. When he did not, I have expected him to give up and roll off the bomb and explode.

The characters I felt the most for were Cera and Marchand. Cera obviously because he was laying on a bomb and could not move, but he was also trying to be the mediator for the two other soldiers. I felt for Marchand because he was so torn between following orders and following his own feelings.

Overall, I liked the movie.