Fuse as the title suggests is a story about patience. It's about a wonders of normal people living in an abnormal situation, about their hope for a better life, about their temper, and about whoever knows any ex-Yugoslavs about their famous temper, their fuse. Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 years after a war which ravaged this region for so long. Tesanj is a small not so important village on which surface you can see good neighborhoods, local market, honest people, tradition and friendliness. But underneath there is hunger, hidden dangerous minefields, ethnical intolerance, widespread and well organized criminal, prostitution and total corruption. Then suddenly out of nowhere amazing information comes in. American president personally is planning a visit to this in the middle of nowhere village, so the race against time starts to clean up the corrupted system and establish some missing democracy. The dialogues are memorable and the local humor is highly original but like in the past standout classics ("No man's Land, Pretty Willage Pretty Flame) the irony of the after-war situation is very well captured.
Its fascinating how effortlessly the whole surreal situation of this once beautiful country is portrayed trough some series of tragic-comic scenes. Like Pjer Zalica commented himself; "We were brave to laugh at our troubles and problems during the past difficult decade. I've realized that during the war years I was doing war documentaries and war movies, still after all this there is belief in the better life" That is exactly the message that you like a viewer should get from this movie, that after all the darkness there can only be light, and that as their original humor the optimism in Bosnia and Herzegovina is very much alive.
Andreja Kmetovic
Its fascinating how effortlessly the whole surreal situation of this once beautiful country is portrayed trough some series of tragic-comic scenes. Like Pjer Zalica commented himself; "We were brave to laugh at our troubles and problems during the past difficult decade. I've realized that during the war years I was doing war documentaries and war movies, still after all this there is belief in the better life" That is exactly the message that you like a viewer should get from this movie, that after all the darkness there can only be light, and that as their original humor the optimism in Bosnia and Herzegovina is very much alive.
Andreja Kmetovic