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As a matter of fact begins as a story of new love in pre-war Bosnia, in this case between Serb Danijel (Goran Kostic) and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic), a attractive Muslim artist, who meet in a club which is subsequently bombed while their seduction is in full on the move. Months later, after the ethnic conflict has begun, they meet again after Ajla is rounded up with other women and held prisoner, essentially as sex slaves for the Serbian soldiers. When Danijel spots her, he directly lets it be known that she belongs to him. He is the commanding officer and the son of an important mongrel (Rade Serbedszija), so his underlings obey him assuming he wants to only have sex with her. In episode, he protects her, they talk, and he allows her to draw and paint in private. Because of who he is, she is very distrustful of him, but eventually she breaks down, and the two have something approximating a relationship, albeit a recondite one.

If the whole story seems a tad bit creepy, that's because it is. In the Land of Blood and Honey . There are vague condemnations of the face world refusing to intervene, but the United Nations failing to act on behalf of humanitarian needs is nothing new. And by focusing on this unwed relationship, I think Jolie loses the opportunity to give a true feeling of the scope of these atrocities.

Source: Gapers Block