Harrisons Flowers

Harrisons Flowers

Plot:

A wife searches for her supposed kidnapped and/or killed husband during the Balkan war.

Review:

Sarah Lloyd (Andie Mcdowell) travels to Croatia in the 1991's to find her journalist, whose mission it is to document the conflict, husband Harrison who presumably is dead( Brendan Gleeson). This is in a sense a somewhat classic "search and rescue" themed film but it does not necessarely center around it and actually is about the perspective of journalists trying to depict some sort of objective truth about something as, often anyway, complex, as war is.

Adrien Brody plays the paradoxical young journalist ( Kyle Morris ) who is both cynical and bitter and brave and idealistic at the same time and is in front line of the conflict. There are other supporting actors that are doing a excellent job aswell. I appreciate the fact that Andie Mcdowell's character is a bit complex and not always likeable. That to me shows a genuine portrait of someone who is searching for an important person in their life, far away from the safety of her her own country.

As for how it documents some sort of fair view concerning the both sides ( Croatian and Serbian) is not something I've gotten an impression of. As someone who isn't affected in any way, or know anyone who is, by this conflict, I could say "Its just a film" but im sure its a different story if you are or know someone who is. My experience watching this film is not that it puts emphasis on which side is good or bad, but rather, as I've already stated, a conflict from a journalists point of view.

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