The Weight of Chains (2010)

Thanks for the memories!

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Firstly when I found this title on IMDb, I was delighted that someone really took some time to study this part of the history (and the world) and that all of us can say that this is really what happened. I really believed in this as I found that origin of film is Canada and this director is rather young so he could have something good. Also I always use IMDb-s rates for good movies/series/documentaries and when I saw rate of 8,2 I thought that this must be excellent. Why am I writing this? Because I am obligated for all those who lives, lived in Balkan peninsula (Yugoslavia) and for all people out of the ex Yugoslavia borders which now are watching this movie and they must think that poor these guys - Serbs. During the whole movie you can see how every thing is against this people and country (Serbs) and that they didn't done anything wrong. Albanians, Bosnians, Croats, Macedonians , Montenegrian, Slovenians all of them are genocide people, all of them has some debt to Serbia from history and only Serbs are heroic, honest and non aggressive. To correct few history facts – First – Kingdom of Yugoslavia between two world wars was a pro Serbs country in which life was awful for all inhabitants including Serbs. Just to remind in this time on 1928. Serbs nationalist Racic shot 5 Croats members of parliament. Secondly – During WW2 Serbia was not occupied by Germany "Reich" control, it was satellite country of Reich under the name of Nediceva Srbija same as Croatian was Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska under Ustase. Serbs also had camp, for Jews, Albanians, Croats, and all other Serbs which were against Nedic, called Banjica and similar. So basically it was the same story as Jasenovac in NDH. Also Chetniks were cold blood killers and cooperator of Nazis, Italian Fascist, Ustase and Nedic regime. Third – To summarize all situation regarding last 30 years in Yugoslavia. Serbs were not peaceful as neither the Croats or Muslim were. As Director says it was all outside game. There is a lot of things which I consider as not true, correct or honest. I don't want to number them all but viewer should be careful watching this video and evaluate facts stated in this documentary.Only thing what is matter is that "small" people suffered and they were moved from their home, raped, prosecuted and eventually killed. This kind of movie should be to calm all sides not to bring the oil on fire. My opinion is that the movie idea was fine but realization end with lot of history revision and lot of wrong facts which are now bringing viewer to the doubt if lot of correct item was also wrong.

I thought that everything has been told about the conflict in and the downfall of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The Weight of Chains proved me wrong. The movie's appeal is mainly that is seemed rather as individual's recollection than journalist's report. At the same time, it connects common people's experience with historical facts and archive footage.The pace is fast and some previous knowledge of the topic might be an advantage when watching The Weight of Chains. On the other hand, the topic is so complex that you may spend days discussing it.Eventually, The Weight of Chains probably won't change your opinion about the war in former Yugoslavia. Yet, it tells a story of a small man in turbulent times.

...How one movie can try to make up for all bad things during the war in former Yugoslavia. This movie is based on some really ridiculous history statements, as well as "facts" about the war that happened almost 20 years ago.I'm a Croat, and I was unfortunate to live during this war. This move has some true facts, like western powers really wanted to break Yugoslavia into smaller republics, but it lacks some other facts like all money in Yugoslavia going to Belgrade. That and some other things made Croats, Bosnians and especially the Slovenians (richest republic in Yugoslavia) really mad.Movie also tells you chetniks were freedom fighters. Chetniks were like ustashe - fascists. Partizans on the other hand were communists, and were lead by Tito, a Croat, one more thing author of this move forgot to mention. He also forgot about communist crimes against Italians, Croats, Muslims and even Serbs that didn't want communist party.But then again, all this movie tries to achieve is to reduce Serbian guilt. He forgot to mention Z4 plan for Serbians in Croatia. Plan was that Serbs had some autonomy, but remain in Croatia. They rejected that. Also, they expelled all Croats from theirs so called republic "Krajina". He also forgot to mention that in Vukovars population over 90% were Croats, and Serbs bombed the hell out of that city. They completely destroyed it.On the other hand, Croats did a lot of bad things to. And any decent man should recognize that and be ashamed coz of it.But one fact remains. Not even one bomb was dropped on Serbia. Serbia invaded first Croatia, then Bosnia. I have friends in Serbia, and friends that are Muslims in Bosnia. And I don't care about their nationality or their religion. Everything today is political, and we can see political propaganda everywhere. This movie could have been great, but instead, it's just one big political propaganda with little to no respect to more than 200 000 casualties during the war 20 years ago. Shame on the author, even tough he probably doesn't care at all.

The person that made this movie is either very evil or very uninformed. This is an insult to all the people that survived the war. And they know what a big lie this is! I was there, I was a child and they took my childhood, they took my family members, and now they want to take the truth. I hate no one, and everyone knows in a war is nothing just black or just white, every side had it's wrong doings, but this film isn't saying that. This film is trying to erase the guilt of Serbia and put it on others. For everyone who doesn't know the facts, here is a fact that will make everything much clearer and no one (Croate, Muslim or Serb) can say it's not true: The Serbian army fought on Croatian and Bosnian ground. The war happened in Croatia and Bosnia. Were there Croatian and Bosnian soldiers fighting on Serbian ground? No! Was there war on Serbian ground? No! Nationalism is never good, but truth isn't nationalism, and the truth should not be forgotten. So, don't let us forget! Don't allow them to take the truth and the past from us!