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20210904 Dust of the Times Film Review of "Ida, What's Wrong"

Now there is a famous saying on the Internet, "The dust of the times is a mountain that falls on the heads of ordinary people." In fact, in peacetime, it is nothing more than the amount of personal wealth, but in the war years, it is life and death. The most recent example is the Taliban's entry into Kabul, where the former football star had to choose to fight for his life, hang up to the pylon of the transport plane, and unfortunately lost his life. In the world's impression, such tragedies can only occur in the vast Asian, African and Latin American regions, and Europe and the United States are far from facing such human tragedies. But the Bosnian war, which has been taking place in southeastern Europe for more than two decades, is a special case. The film "Ida, What's Wrong" is about the struggle of the United Nations translator Ida in the days after the Serb soldiers occupied Srebrenica and launched the massacre. Ida, a middle school teacher, is married to the head of a local middle school and has two sons. The eldest son is obsessed with pop music, and the younger son is about to turn seventeen, and his handsomeness is jealous. Ada, who worked as an interpreter for the UN peacekeeping force, was sheltered by the peacekeepers, but her husband and son were taken away and killed by the Serb army. A few years later, Ida returned to Srebrenica as a teacher. The dove occupies the magpie's nest, and only the skeletons of the family remain. She can only live with the pain in her heart.

As a wife and mother, Ida has gone to great lengths to save her family. She signed up her husband as a negotiator to secure asylum for peacekeepers. She was adamant that she would not let her two sons go to the woods to protect herself from the guerrillas. She hid around the base with her two sons in case Serb soldiers took them away. In order to prevent unfavorable items from being found, she resolutely tore up the photos of her family and the date written by her husband for three years. She pleaded around to get her family on the staff list.

But none of them worked.

The Bosnian War not only led to the disintegration of Yugoslavia, a major country in southeastern Europe, into a number of small countries, but also a rare humanitarian crisis, not only the Srebrenica massacre, the most serious massacre in Europe after the Second World War, but also the world's first case of national genocide, and the bombing of the Chinese Yugoslav Embassy, a major event in the war, was also an eternal pain in the hearts of Chinese people.

In war, a mother's efforts eventually turn into nothingness. The dust of the times, falling on the heads of ordinary people is a mountain.

Movie Background - Excerpt from an online encyclopedia

Bosnia and Herzegovina declared its independence on 15 October 1991, was recognized by the European Community on 6 April 1992 and by the United States the following day. The Republika Srpska did not want the region to secede and had been killing Bosnians there since 1992. On 16 April 1993, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 819, declaring Srebrenica a "safe zone". However, the Serb army ignored it and attacked as usual on the grounds of retaliation for the killing of Serb civilians by the Bosnian Muslim army.

In March 1995, international pressure was constantly exerted to end the Bosnian war, but the President of the Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadzic, still issued instructions to the Serb army to turn Srebrenica into a place where the local population could not survive. In July 1995, Serb forces entered the security zone delimited by the United Nations.

Since 12 July, Sladian troops have driven refugees out of the refugee settlements of Portochari and forcibly pulled down military-age men as they boarded a bus bound for Bosnia. Sometimes men who were too young and too old were also stopped (some were only 14-15 years old). They were taken to a place called the "White House." On the 13th, the peacekeeping force clearly saw evidence that the Serbian army was murdering the isolated man.

By comparing DNA samples taken from excavated bones with blood DNA samples from their families of missing persons, the International Committee on Missing Persons (ICMP) has confirmed the identities of 6,598 people missing in the Holocaust. Based on the high matching rate of DNA extracted from bones and blood, icmp estimates that about 8,100 people were missing in the Srebrenica massacre.