Comments on: High Recommendation for The Maus and Discussion Explanation

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:58:28 +0000

I liked the movie. But IMO the interpretation of the ending is thus:

The landmine kills Selma. Alex survives and meets someone new. In the final season, there’s a terrorist attack. Alex suffers PTSD and his mind sends him back to that day. Not as a vengeful guardian. But because he loved Selma. She represents the guilt, sadness and pain of the Serbian-Bozniak genocide. She’s a symbol.

By: Rico

Rico — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 07:19:01 +0000

Stupid, and as boring as your comments and attempts to over analyze a movie. You are all in your 20s I bet

By: PauliRN

PauliRN — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 04:26:13 +0000

Sean
I was describing my reaction to what I saw… we don’t know if it was “in her head” as you claim. Such indignation for my take … Alex was a wimp who made promises he didn’t keep. I’m not the only one who saw it like that.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 22:31:11 +0000

Pauli RN you don’t really get Alex at all. You’ve rather trapped yourself in the mindset of the avenging Selma driven by hatred and paranoia. “He has no reason to be horrified by what she did to those pigs…” But hang on! Since so much of what “happened” was in Selma’s head, how can you be sure “those pigs” did anything at all? It could be the fact that they were Serbian that simply unhinged her – so her mind simply imagined it all.
After all, she imagined them shooting Alex, and she imagined them raping her, so why not the rest? But Paili RN thinks that “Alex should be grateful for her temporary insanity” because this “saved their lives”? Hang on! She cut off the head of a dead man and she bashed in the head of another one who was helpless in a ditch! That was not “saving lives”, was it? And these men were not the ones who killed her family, were they? Just before she bashed in the head of the helpless Serb, he taunts her, provoking her. Now how plausible is that? Much more likely her hate-curdled mind conjured up this provocation so that she could get to work with the rock!
What haunts me about this movie is the message that fear, hatred, paranoia and violence triumphs over reason and humanity and mercy. Yet thankfully this is not always so. Many people suffer unspeakable injustice but hang on to their humanity. Selma, by contrast, assumed the worst of these two men simply because they were Serbian. Her mind was set from the moment she knew their ethnicity. They hated her (or she imagined they did) simply because she was Bosnian Muslim. And, to be clear, as a matter of fact, ethnic violence and hatred ran from all sides when Yugoslavia went to pieces. For example, the KLA were fond of murdering Serbian civilians in Kosovo.
Alex, by contrast, wanted there to be justice, not racially-motivated mob rule. So, of course, he ran from his psychotic girlfriend when he saw she was the mirror of those she hated. If Alex’s actions are “wimpish”, and if he was taking “the moral high ground”, then the world needs much more more of that. Rock on mate!

By: Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 14:52:37 +0000

In reply to Myles. 100% this. Yes. Totally. I buy this for sure.

By: Myles

Myles — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 14:50:07 +0000

I think you just scratch the surface here. The whole movie is a metaphor for the Bosnian genocide. Alex represents ignorance of Europe as they sat by and let it all happen. At one point in the film she repeatedly asks him “Where were you?” This is seemingly a honest question but it represents the anger and frustrations about European inaction. Alex constantly tells her to calm down throughout the film and ignores her. Then when she turns and helps herself (by murdering the men) he can’t possibly be with her anymore. She has turned to extremist for European tastes. This makes the end of the film so much more significant because with Selma’s appearance at the end of the film they are presumably in a European setting. I think the meaning of the ending is that extremism always comes home and that Europe is facing a reckoning for letting the wounds of the Bosnian genocide fester.

By: Nancy E Mescon

Nancy E Mescon — Sun, 17 May 2020 04:25:27 +0000

The film was okay. But what bothered me again, because I just watched the Lodge, is how these characters neglect their dogs!!! The boyfriend just let’s his dog jump out of the car into a forest! No leash!! In an unknown forest? So the couple are walking around and no thought as to where the dog is? Sorry, that makes the story for me not believable. And of course the dog dies! Please stop using dogs in scary horror films!!

By: Cheshire

Cheshire — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 06:57:55 +0000

Okay so I found the movie interesting. Though it was almost too extremely slow. Alex had promised to not leave her and what does he do? Leaves into the woods. Selma had her guy basically telling her don’t trust them and she was right. Alex would not listen and when I said that he’s going to get shot he got shot right after. Very ironic. Selma did everything correctly. If two guys tried to kill me I would make sure they wouldn’t be able to follow me. And what’s with the stupid ‘let’s just turn my back towards the guy who’s still alive and tried to kill me’ ?!?!? I mean also how did he know where her amulet was? And how come he never gave it back? I thought the alien like thing was a goddess or something along the lines and when I searched ya hafizu it meant protector so I mean I was in the ball park here.

By: Lex Fox

Lex Fox — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 13:43:15 +0000

I thought it was something like option 3. I don’t know if the last landmine in the forest was real, and I’m not sure it matters. Selma is effectively dead, not only in Alex’s eyes, but likely in her own. Whether the explosion in the park happened is also debatable. My takeaway is that Alex has become like Selma. He finally understands her. He didn’t in that final moment in the forest, but now that the wound is no longer fresh, he has similar psychological scarring to hers.

He also apparently has a type. But that lead-on isn’t just there to trick the audience, it’s to show us how he’s still trying to rebuild his life before the traumatic events, yet he cannot escape them. I think, quite likely, neither of the last two explosions was real, they were metaphorical.