I found two clips from my favorite movie, Welcome to Sarajevo, that I would like to post here. The film, based upon the true accounts of the Siege of Sarajevo as depicted in Michael Nicholson’s book Natasha’s Story, chroncles the activities of British and American journalists who reported on the Siege. The main plot of the film, however, centers around a British journalist who, frustrated over the fact his efforts to inform the West of the gross injustice and carnage occuring in Bosnia were stymied by the networks that chose more glamorous (and frivolous stories) to run, stops reporting on the Bosnia War itself and instead begins to cover the lives of orphans living on the edge of the city and whose lives were endangered by the constant shelling. While the United States (Bush and Clinton), Great Britain and the UN stood by and watched the intended annihilation of a country whose 12,000 casualties were 85% civilian, this reporter displays on a microlevel the possibility and reponsibility of the Western nations to aid the innocent.
I first watched this film while I was a naive 19 year-old conservative-nationalist type. I happened to be reading George Weigel’s biography of John Paul II, Witness to Hope, at the same time. I was never the same after. On account of the book and the movie, I got my first glimpse of what true Christian humanism truly is. Anyhow, be sure to see the film if you get a chance. It has an ending like no other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWUV5dFseXo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48gV6snPU1c
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