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| Twice Born - A Penelope Cruz Masterpiece Film |
Here I would like to tell you one important thing and that
is the factor that a film if presented in a realistic way definitely touches
everyone’s heart. But on the contrary if some film maker tries to manipulate
the truth to adhere to his or her own philosophies or to get approval from some
other sources then that film maker is doing an artistic crime in my eyes!
But to say it loud and clear that “Twice Born” is an Italian
film that is made multilingual to address to global audience. Here is my favorite
actress “Penelope Cruz” in it. She is a great combination of beauty and brain,and her choice of moves is always awesome. Especially when she works in Italian
or Spanish films. But to say that it is a film about a beautiful actress is not
a justice!
Twice Born is a
film about Bosnia Herzegovina, and the time frame is set in the early 90s when “Yugoslavia”
broke into many pieces, and every state claimed an independent stature. When Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia with rest of
states declared their own independent identities but Serbian forces invaded the
lands of Bosnia. They considered it their born right to cut throat of every
citizen up there. The only reason came out in limelight that Bosnia appeared to
be a State of Muslims in the heart of Europe. The radical and extremist Serbs
wanted a Christian dominance.
They massacred the whole of towns and villages, killed
children brutally and raped thousands of Bosnia’s Muslim women and girls. The
president of the state of Serbia stated that he wanted Serb soldiers to rape
all Muslim women as to get a new generation of Serbian identity from the new-born.
It is not fiction as the Modern World has seen it only two decades back, and so many sensitive people around the globe protested, and United Nations intervened
to form peace in the area.
But it was too late and the film “Twice Born” which has an
Italian name “Venuto al mondo” in fact an adaptation of a novel by “Margaret Mazzantini” shows
the sufferings and pains of Bosnian people when they were killed without any
reason. It was a genocide on the sole basis of religious and ethnic hatred. They died due to starvation and the protagonist
“Gemma” who is “Penelope Cruz” was supposed to visit the state of Bosnia to
cover a story as a journalist. There she met a man and fell in love and then
got married.
The later twists and turns in the film are too painful and
yet reminds of another side of human nature. The desire to destroy others at any cost, and it is shown brilliantly and painted as a true picture, and I
think in a far better way if compared to a film produced by “Angelina Jolie” on
similar subject of Bosnia and a sufferings of its people” She produced a film named
“In the Land of Blood and Honey”. That is also a must watch film to understand
the bitter realities which we refrain from watching in general!
Though I respect her for showing off the reality with her
own perspective but it was too narrow as compared to “Twice Born”. So the ‘Gemma’ lost her Bosnian husband and has to
leave the place due to being a foreign lady, and the irony is that she was
rescued though she wanted to be with her husband in trouble and turmoil.
But she found out her husband’s son “Pietro” as adopted with
the effort of her second Italian husband, and later revealed that it was not
the case. But she came after so many years to find out that the girl whom she
suspected to be the mother of her husband’s child had an entirely different but
miserable story to tell!
She took the boy back to Italy and a sense of pain, empathy
and a love for the kid whom she had raised had grown even stronger. And it was
added with the respect and love for the true and brave hearts of Bosnian people
as well. Though her first Bosnian husband did a suicide due to not able to face
the misery that he set upon a personal and on national front. It is a message
for the whole world to live with peace and to let others live in that way as
well. As it is a basic birth right of every individual on the surface of the
earth!!
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