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I've just seen the European Premier of this movie at the Berlin Film Festival and found it to be one of the most emotionally draining films I have ever seen. I cannot recall another film in which the sheer terror of living under the constant threat of death has been so realistically depicted. The scenes where the family are cowering in terror as bullets fly through their house were brilliantly directed and I witnessed many of the audience cowering in their seats at these points. The scene at the end where the 2 of the 4 boys taken down to the river are brutally executed by the army had the audience crying out in horror as they could not believe the utter callousness they had just witnessed. I note that the film has been put forward for an Oscar nomination. I can think of no movie that deserves it more.
score 10/10
bigdave11 17 February 2005
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