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* InfantImmortality: ImprobableIbfantSurvival: [[spoiler:At one point in the movie a young baby left in a war zone ''is'' killed, and while Vera's baby survives she almost dies several times during the course of the film, and each time creates genuine suspense.]]
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* HarsherInHindsight: The scene where Guy walks into a mosque and shoots the worshippers, in light of a similar incident happening in New Zealand in 2019.
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A 1998 film about the [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Bosnian war]], starring Creator/DennisQuaid as Joshua "Guy" Rose, a [[SemperFi U.S. Marine]] turned [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary]] and Nataša Ninković as Vera, the [[DamselInDistress woman]] he is escorting to a [[UsefulNotes/UnitedNations U.N.]] safe zone.
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A 1998 film about the [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Bosnian war]], starring Creator/DennisQuaid as Joshua "Guy" Rose, a [[SemperFi U.S. Marine]] government officer turned [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary]] and Nataša Ninković as Vera, the [[DamselInDistress woman]] he is escorting to a [[UsefulNotes/UnitedNations U.N.]] safe zone.
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* AbandonedWarChild: The plot mostly revolves around Vera, a Serb woman captured, raped, and impregnated during [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars The Bosnian War]]. She is released as part of a prisoner exchange mere hours before giving birth, and the results of [[YouCantGoHomeAgain trying to go home again]] aren't pretty for either her or her daughter.
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* AbandonedWarChild: The central plot mostly revolves around of the story is kicked off by Guy meeting Vera, a Serb woman captured, raped, and impregnated during [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars The Bosnian War]]. She is released as part of a prisoner exchange mere hours before giving birth, and the results of [[YouCantGoHomeAgain trying to go home again]] aren't pretty for either her or her daughter.
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* HonorRelatedAbuse: Vera's father can't abide that she got raped by a Muslim.
Muslim. After she returns home he tracks her down with the intention of performing a honor killing, but is talked out of it by Vera's brother.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After a long period as a hardened, emotionally dead sniper, Guy is forced to take an up close and personal look at a young boy that he had shot earlier for no real reason. It snaps Guy out of his numb state and makes him begin to act like a human being again instead of a killing machine.
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** Even before truly reclaiming his humanity, Guy prevents Goran from discovering a young baby that Goran would likely kill if he were to find.
** Of all thecat"people, the Croat officer in charge of the beach massacre does this. After having a brute with a hammer kill many unarmed civilians, [[spoiler:including Vera]] before the rest of the rounded up civilians are wiped out by gunfire, the officer investigates a noise from where Guy and the baby are hiding. If he finds them, he will definitely kill them, but while looking for the noise he heard, he sees a young stray cat. The officer assumes it was the cat that made the noise, and takes it with him with the clear intention of taking care of it, mere moments after ordering the deaths of dozens of people.
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A 1998 film about the [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Bosnian war]], starring Dennis Quaid as Joshua "Guy" Rose, a [[SemperFi U.S. Marine]] turned [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary]] and Nataša Ninković as Vera, the [[DamselInDistress woman]] he is escorting to a [[UsefulNotes/UnitedNations U.N.]] safe zone.
Stationed in Paris on embassy guard duty, Josh witnesses the death of his wife (Nastassja Kinski) and son by [[TerroristsWithoutACause Muslim]] [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]]. Immediately after the funeral of his wife and son, Joshua [[RevengeBeforeReason storms into the nearest mosque and guns down the worshipers inside]]. His buddy Peter (Stellan Skarsgård) catches up to him just in time to shoot a survivor who was going to shoot Joshua. To avoid being prosecuted for murder, Joshua and Peter run off to join the [[UsefulNotes/GaulsWithGrenades French Foreign Legion]]. After getting bored with the Foreign Legion, Guy and Pete become mercenaries and end up working for the Serbs in the Bosnian War. During a prisoner exchange, Guy encounters Vera and saves her and her child soon afterward.
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A 1998 film about the [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Bosnian war]], starring Dennis Quaid Creator/DennisQuaid as Joshua "Guy" Rose, a [[SemperFi U.S. Marine]] turned [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary]] and Nataša Ninković as Vera, the [[DamselInDistress woman]] he is escorting to a [[UsefulNotes/UnitedNations U.N.]] safe zone.
Stationed in Paris on embassy guard duty, Josh witnesses the death of his wife(Nastassja Kinski) (Creator/NastassjaKinski) and son by [[TerroristsWithoutACause Muslim]] [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]]. Immediately after the funeral of his wife and son, Joshua [[RevengeBeforeReason storms into the nearest mosque and guns down the worshipers inside]]. His buddy Peter (Stellan Skarsgård) (Creator/StellanSkarsgard) catches up to him just in time to shoot a survivor who was going to shoot Joshua. To avoid being prosecuted for murder, Joshua and Peter run off to join the [[UsefulNotes/GaulsWithGrenades French Foreign Legion]]. After getting bored with the Foreign Legion, Guy and Pete become mercenaries and end up working for the Serbs in the Bosnian War. During a prisoner exchange, Guy encounters Vera and saves her and her child soon afterward.
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Stationed in Paris on embassy guard duty, Josh witnesses the death of his wife (Nastassja Kinski) and son by [[TerroristsWithoutACause Muslim]] [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]]. Immediately after the funeral of his wife and son, Joshua [[RevengeBeforeReason storms into the nearest mosque and guns down the worshipers inside]]. His buddy Peter (Stellan Skarsgård) catches up to him just in time to shoot a survivor who was going to shoot Joshua. To avoid being prosecuted for murder, Joshua and Peter run off to join the [[GaulsWithGrenades [[UsefulNotes/GaulsWithGrenades French Foreign Legion]]. After getting bored with the Foreign Legion, Guy and Pete become mercenaries and end up working for the Serbs in the Bosnian War. During a prisoner exchange, Guy encounters Vera and saves her and her child soon afterward.
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** Not really. That's how only [[UnreliableNarrator Goran]] described them. While Mujahideen from the Arab world did come to assist the Bosnian Muslims, the term was used as a slur in this context as Goran, like many others of his contemporaries, were blinded by nationalist propaganda.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: the Bosnian, Croat, and Serb soldiers all qualify.
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*** may be some truth to that, considering what Vera and her daughter survived. Apparently a Serbian newborn can stomach fresh-from-the-teat goat's milk.
*** may be some truth to that, considering what Vera and her daughter survived. Apparently a Serbian newborn can stomach fresh-from-the-teat goat's milk.
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* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Not this time. The film does a very good job of portraying just how brutally sickening war is.
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* [[PoliceAreUseless U.N Peacekeepers Are Useless]]
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A 1998 film about the [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Bosnian war]], starring Dennis Quaid as Joshua "Guy" Rose, a [[SemperFi U.S. Marine]] turned [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary]] and Nataša Ninković as Vera, the [[DistressedDamsel woman]] he is escorting to a [[UsefulNotes/UnitedNations U.N.]] safe zone.
Stationed in Paris on embassy guard duty, Josh witnesses the death of his wife (Nastassja Kinski) and son by [[TerroristsWithoutACause Muslim]] [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]]. Immediately after the funeral of his wife and son, Joshua [[RevengeBeforeReason storms into the nearest mosque and guns down the worshipers inside]]. His buddy Peter (Stellan Skarsgård) catches up to him just in time to shoot a survivor who was going to shoot Joshua. To avoid being prosecuted for murder, Joshua and Peter run off to join the [[GaulsWithGrenades French Foreign Legion]]. After getting bored with the Foreign Legion, [[strike:Josh]] Guy and Pete become mercenaries and end up working for the Serbs in the Bosnian War. During a prisoner exchange, Guy encounters Vera and saves her and her child soon afterward.
Stationed in Paris on embassy guard duty, Josh witnesses the death of his wife (Nastassja Kinski) and son by [[TerroristsWithoutACause Muslim]] [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]]. Immediately after the funeral of his wife and son, Joshua [[RevengeBeforeReason storms into the nearest mosque and guns down the worshipers inside]]. His buddy Peter (Stellan Skarsgård) catches up to him just in time to shoot a survivor who was going to shoot Joshua. To avoid being prosecuted for murder, Joshua and Peter run off to join the [[GaulsWithGrenades French Foreign Legion]]. After getting bored with the Foreign Legion, [[strike:Josh]] Guy and Pete become mercenaries and end up working for the Serbs in the Bosnian War. During a prisoner exchange, Guy encounters Vera and saves her and her child soon afterward.
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A 1998 film about the [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Bosnian war]], starring Dennis Quaid as Joshua "Guy" Rose, a [[SemperFi U.S. Marine]] turned [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary]] and Nataša Ninković as Vera, the [[DistressedDamsel [[DamselInDistress woman]] he is escorting to a [[UsefulNotes/UnitedNations U.N.]] safe zone.
Stationed in Paris on embassy guard duty, Josh witnesses the death of his wife (Nastassja Kinski) and son by [[TerroristsWithoutACause Muslim]] [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]]. Immediately after the funeral of his wife and son, Joshua [[RevengeBeforeReason storms into the nearest mosque and guns down the worshipers inside]]. His buddy Peter (Stellan Skarsgård) catches up to him just in time to shoot a survivor who was going to shoot Joshua. To avoid being prosecuted for murder, Joshua and Peter run off to join the [[GaulsWithGrenades French Foreign Legion]]. After getting bored with the Foreign Legion,[[strike:Josh]] Guy and Pete become mercenaries and end up working for the Serbs in the Bosnian War. During a prisoner exchange, Guy encounters Vera and saves her and her child soon afterward.
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* ChildSoldiers: The little girl who walks up to the guard-post, smiling. Pete offers her some gum. He radios over to Guy, telling him how [[GenreBlindness he don't give a damn about the Captain's stories]] and how "[[NeverHurtAnInnocent we're not gonna become baby-killers"]]. [[spoiler: DeathByIrony]] ensues.
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* ChildSoldiers: The little girl who walks up to the guard-post, smiling. Pete offers her some gum. He radios over to Guy, telling him how [[GenreBlindness he don't give a damn about the Captain's stories]] and how "[[NeverHurtAnInnocent we're not gonna become baby-killers"]].baby-killers]]". [[spoiler: DeathByIrony]] ensues.
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* DropTheHammer : In the scene at the beach, the marauders' brute uses a huge hammer to deliver the killing blow to [[spoiler: Vera]].
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A 1998 film about the [[TheYugoslavWars [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Bosnian war]], starring Dennis Quaid as Joshua "Guy" Rose, a [[SemperFi U.S. Marine]] turned [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary]] and Nataša Ninković as Vera, the [[DistressedDamsel woman]] he is escorting to a [[UsefulNotes/UnitedNations U.N.]] safe zone.
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A 1998 film about the [[TheYugoslavWars Bosnian war]], starring Dennis Quaid as Joshua "Guy" Rose, a [[SemperFi U.S. Marine]] turned [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary]] and Nataša Ninković as Vera, the [[DistressedDamsel woman]] he is escorting to a [[UnitedNations [[UsefulNotes/UnitedNations U.N.]] safe zone.
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Stationed in Paris on embassy guard duty, Josh witnesses the death of his wife and son by [[TerroristsWithoutACause Muslim]] [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]]. Immediately after the funeral of his wife and son, Joshua [[RevengeBeforeReason storms into the nearest mosque and guns down the worshipers inside]]. His buddy Peter (Stellan Skarsgård) catches up to him just in time to shoot a survivor who was going to shoot Joshua. To avoid being prosecuted for murder, Joshua and Peter run off to join the [[GaulsWithGrenades French Foreign Legion]]. After getting bored with the Foreign Legion, [[strike:Josh]] Guy and Pete become mercenaries and end up working for the Serbs in the Bosnian War. During a prisoner exchange, Guy encounters Vera and saves her and her child soon afterward.
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Stationed in Paris on embassy guard duty, Josh witnesses the death of his wife (Nastassja Kinski) and son by [[TerroristsWithoutACause Muslim]] [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]]. Immediately after the funeral of his wife and son, Joshua [[RevengeBeforeReason storms into the nearest mosque and guns down the worshipers inside]]. His buddy Peter (Stellan Skarsgård) catches up to him just in time to shoot a survivor who was going to shoot Joshua. To avoid being prosecuted for murder, Joshua and Peter run off to join the [[GaulsWithGrenades French Foreign Legion]]. After getting bored with the Foreign Legion, [[strike:Josh]] Guy and Pete become mercenaries and end up working for the Serbs in the Bosnian War. During a prisoner exchange, Guy encounters Vera and saves her and her child soon afterward.
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[[quoteright:209:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/savior_3495.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:209:"Hope is worth fighting for."]]
A 1998 film about the [[TheYugoslavWars Bosnian war]], starring Dennis Quaid as Joshua "Guy" Rose, a [[SemperFi U.S. Marine]] turned [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary]] and Nataša Ninković as Vera, the [[DistressedDamsel woman]] he is escorting to a [[UnitedNations U.N.]] safe zone.
Stationed in Paris on embassy guard duty, Josh witnesses the death of his wife and son by [[TerroristsWithoutACause Muslim]] [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]]. Immediately after the funeral of his wife and son, Joshua [[RevengeBeforeReason storms into the nearest mosque and guns down the worshipers inside]]. His buddy Peter (Stellan Skarsgård) catches up to him just in time to shoot a survivor who was going to shoot Joshua. To avoid being prosecuted for murder, Joshua and Peter run off to join the [[GaulsWithGrenades French Foreign Legion]]. After getting bored with the Foreign Legion, [[strike:Josh]] Guy and Pete become mercenaries and end up working for the Serbs in the Bosnian War. During a prisoner exchange, Guy encounters Vera and saves her and her child soon afterward.
He becomes her only hope for survival.
She becomes his only hope for redemption.
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'''Tropes''':
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: the Bosnian, Croat, and Serb soldiers all qualify.
* AnyoneCanDie
* ArmiesAreEvil: Played straight with the Balkan factions.
* AteHisGun: Vera tries to do this with Goran's gun right after giving birth, but is [[InterruptedSuicide stopped by Guy]].
* BloodOnTheseHands
* ChildByRape: The baby girl
* ChildSoldiers: The little girl who walks up to the guard-post, smiling. Pete offers her some gum. He radios over to Guy, telling him how [[GenreBlindness he don't give a damn about the Captain's stories]] and how "[[NeverHurtAnInnocent we're not gonna become baby-killers"]]. [[spoiler: DeathByIrony]] ensues.
* ChurchMilitant: The Muslims are particularly depicted as such.
** Not really. That's how only [[UnreliableNarrator Goran]] described them. While Mujahideen from the Arab world did come to assist the Bosnian Muslims, the term was used as a slur in this context as Goran, like many others of his contemporaries, were blinded by nationalist propaganda.
* CrapsackWorld: The Balkan countryside, where war is a constant, gas is no-where to be found, and none of the tits work.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The sledgehammer executions
* ColdSniper: Guy
* ColonelKilgore: The Croat executioner.
* DangerousDeserter: Guy is seen as one after gunning down Goran
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: The lynched priest
* DeadSidekick
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Pete]]
* DieLaughing: Goran laughs at Guy's reprimands and weapon aimed at him. He swings his own gun around, but not fast enough.
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Not this time. The film does a very good job of portraying just how brutally sickening war is.
* DoomedHometown: Vera's
* '''EvilVersusEvil''': This is the YugoslavWars, this is to be expected.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Vera]]
* GenreBlindness: Goran advises Guy to not be so naive about the "truce". Peter refuses to believe the stories about ChildSoldiers.
* HonorRelatedAbuse: Vera's father can't abide that she got raped by a Muslim.
* InfantImmortality: Very narrowly subverted, as the baby almost dies several times.
* InterruptedSuicide: Vera, right after [[ChildByRape giving birth]]
* KickTheDog: All over the place
* KillEmAll: The various massacre scenes
* KillTheOnesYouLove: Almost happens when Guy puts his hand over the baby's mouth to keep her noise from giving away their position.
* LeaveNoSurvivors: The whole point of ethnic cleansing.
* LivingMacGuffin: Guy makes it his personal mission to keep the baby safe at all costs.
* MeaningfulFuneral: Subverted, as Joshua storms off as soon as the ceremony is done to get revenge.
* MeaningfulName: Joshua = Yeshua = Jesus.
** Peter is his loyal buddy.
** A rose is a flower of great meaning, given to signify love or mourning.
** Josh changes his name to "Guy", becoming an "anonymous everyman".
** Vera is a common name in Slavic nations meaning "faith".
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: The Foreign Legion stressed this point.
** Later, we see Guy snipe several Bosnian troops who venture out to retrieve their fallen comrades.
* NoWomansLand: Systematic rape of captured women
* NotSoDifferent: Goran brags that he and other Serbs rape captured Bosnian women. Guy points out that the Bosnians do the same to captured Serbian women.
** Goran replies: "[[OurTropesAreDifferent Our women are stronger"]]
*** may be some truth to that, considering what Vera and her daughter survived. Apparently a Serbian newborn can stomach fresh-from-the-teat goat's milk.
* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Goran hacking off a Bosnian woman's finger to steal her ring, and leaving her to bleed to death.
* PetTheDog: Or rather, "save the cat"
* {{Plunder}}: Goran chopping a ring off a dying woman's finger
* PostRapeTaunt: When Goran is boasting to Guy about raping a young Bosnian woman, she curses at him. He purposely mistranslates for Guy, saying, "You know what she said? She said I was the best she ever had!"
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: subverted
* SociopathicSoldier: Goran
* TheseHandsHaveKilled
* [[PoliceAreUseless U.N Peacekeepers Are Useless]]
* UnfriendlyFire: Guy kills Goran
* UrbanWarfare
* WarIsHell: Pretty much the entire point of the film.
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[[quoteright:209:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/savior_3495.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:209:"Hope is worth fighting for."]]
A 1998 film about the [[TheYugoslavWars Bosnian war]], starring Dennis Quaid as Joshua "Guy" Rose, a [[SemperFi U.S. Marine]] turned [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary]] and Nataša Ninković as Vera, the [[DistressedDamsel woman]] he is escorting to a [[UnitedNations U.N.]] safe zone.
Stationed in Paris on embassy guard duty, Josh witnesses the death of his wife and son by [[TerroristsWithoutACause Muslim]] [[SuicideAttack suicide bombers]]. Immediately after the funeral of his wife and son, Joshua [[RevengeBeforeReason storms into the nearest mosque and guns down the worshipers inside]]. His buddy Peter (Stellan Skarsgård) catches up to him just in time to shoot a survivor who was going to shoot Joshua. To avoid being prosecuted for murder, Joshua and Peter run off to join the [[GaulsWithGrenades French Foreign Legion]]. After getting bored with the Foreign Legion, [[strike:Josh]] Guy and Pete become mercenaries and end up working for the Serbs in the Bosnian War. During a prisoner exchange, Guy encounters Vera and saves her and her child soon afterward.
He becomes her only hope for survival.
She becomes his only hope for redemption.
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'''Tropes''':
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: the Bosnian, Croat, and Serb soldiers all qualify.
* AnyoneCanDie
* ArmiesAreEvil: Played straight with the Balkan factions.
* AteHisGun: Vera tries to do this with Goran's gun right after giving birth, but is [[InterruptedSuicide stopped by Guy]].
* BloodOnTheseHands
* ChildByRape: The baby girl
* ChildSoldiers: The little girl who walks up to the guard-post, smiling. Pete offers her some gum. He radios over to Guy, telling him how [[GenreBlindness he don't give a damn about the Captain's stories]] and how "[[NeverHurtAnInnocent we're not gonna become baby-killers"]]. [[spoiler: DeathByIrony]] ensues.
* ChurchMilitant: The Muslims are particularly depicted as such.
** Not really. That's how only [[UnreliableNarrator Goran]] described them. While Mujahideen from the Arab world did come to assist the Bosnian Muslims, the term was used as a slur in this context as Goran, like many others of his contemporaries, were blinded by nationalist propaganda.
* CrapsackWorld: The Balkan countryside, where war is a constant, gas is no-where to be found, and none of the tits work.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The sledgehammer executions
* ColdSniper: Guy
* ColonelKilgore: The Croat executioner.
* DangerousDeserter: Guy is seen as one after gunning down Goran
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: The lynched priest
* DeadSidekick
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Pete]]
* DieLaughing: Goran laughs at Guy's reprimands and weapon aimed at him. He swings his own gun around, but not fast enough.
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Not this time. The film does a very good job of portraying just how brutally sickening war is.
* DoomedHometown: Vera's
* '''EvilVersusEvil''': This is the YugoslavWars, this is to be expected.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Vera]]
* GenreBlindness: Goran advises Guy to not be so naive about the "truce". Peter refuses to believe the stories about ChildSoldiers.
* HonorRelatedAbuse: Vera's father can't abide that she got raped by a Muslim.
* InfantImmortality: Very narrowly subverted, as the baby almost dies several times.
* InterruptedSuicide: Vera, right after [[ChildByRape giving birth]]
* KickTheDog: All over the place
* KillEmAll: The various massacre scenes
* KillTheOnesYouLove: Almost happens when Guy puts his hand over the baby's mouth to keep her noise from giving away their position.
* LeaveNoSurvivors: The whole point of ethnic cleansing.
* LivingMacGuffin: Guy makes it his personal mission to keep the baby safe at all costs.
* MeaningfulFuneral: Subverted, as Joshua storms off as soon as the ceremony is done to get revenge.
* MeaningfulName: Joshua = Yeshua = Jesus.
** Peter is his loyal buddy.
** A rose is a flower of great meaning, given to signify love or mourning.
** Josh changes his name to "Guy", becoming an "anonymous everyman".
** Vera is a common name in Slavic nations meaning "faith".
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: The Foreign Legion stressed this point.
** Later, we see Guy snipe several Bosnian troops who venture out to retrieve their fallen comrades.
* NoWomansLand: Systematic rape of captured women
* NotSoDifferent: Goran brags that he and other Serbs rape captured Bosnian women. Guy points out that the Bosnians do the same to captured Serbian women.
** Goran replies: "[[OurTropesAreDifferent Our women are stronger"]]
*** may be some truth to that, considering what Vera and her daughter survived. Apparently a Serbian newborn can stomach fresh-from-the-teat goat's milk.
* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Goran hacking off a Bosnian woman's finger to steal her ring, and leaving her to bleed to death.
* PetTheDog: Or rather, "save the cat"
* {{Plunder}}: Goran chopping a ring off a dying woman's finger
* PostRapeTaunt: When Goran is boasting to Guy about raping a young Bosnian woman, she curses at him. He purposely mistranslates for Guy, saying, "You know what she said? She said I was the best she ever had!"
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: subverted
* SociopathicSoldier: Goran
* TheseHandsHaveKilled
* [[PoliceAreUseless U.N Peacekeepers Are Useless]]
* UnfriendlyFire: Guy kills Goran
* UrbanWarfare
* WarIsHell: Pretty much the entire point of the film.
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