Movie

Say Why Have You Left Me?

1993 · 90 min

A somber, slow-burning return home where war's residue clings to everything, offering little comfort but a fragile, hard-won tenderness.

Overview: The story of a young man who, in 1991. receives order to report to a military drill, and finds himself on Vukovar front, where he spends five months. Returning from there, he discovers changes within himself, but within his home town also. Totally lost, he finds no way to make contact with the environment, and suddenly experiences love with the girl who survived all horrors of that war...
How it feels: Bleak, melancholic, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: War, trauma, isolation, love
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: war
trauma
isolation
love
healing
Places: small town
military
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild