The Maus
The Maus
| 21 September 2017 (USA)
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Alex and Selma are a couple in love on a trip to the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Suddenly, Selma feels a mysterious force is chasing them.

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Maria Castello

I do not recommend this film if you are fan of movies like Annabelle or the conjuring, No jump scares here. If you are ready to watch something different, something war and history related with some PTSD, then you should give it a try.Selma and Alex end up ruining their ride in the middle of the woods, a place full of mines from the past war. Selma, from the beginning, seems frightened and worried, like a mouse. They later meet two Serbians, neither looks trustworthy and Selma immediately knows it (¿or is only in her head?) She later gets raped by them but all the sudden it seems the rape scene was in her mind and part of memories from the war. Regardless, all the dirt from the rape scene maintains in her face, making the viewer question if it indeed happen. While the story goes on we are more convinced that Selma is suffering of PTSD. She later sees Alex getting killed by a shotgun. Each time the events go back and it seems Alex was never killed, but the Serbians are aware and weary of Selma´s attitude, growing more hostile towards the pair.Alex always tries to maintain a neutral position, telling Selma constantly that he is her guardian angel but in reality he is not understanding what she is going through. She knows there is something wrong going on, but Alex does not listen and later on Selma is proved to be right, or at least in her own imagination. Due to the events happening, we are sure Selma is suffering greatly, but we do not know what is really going on with the events happening. What is real and what is made up by her? Selma finally changes the mouse and cat play and kills both Serbians, a human like alien makes it´s appearance, which I consider is herself, her dark self, since the being only appears at the end when she decides to kill the Serbians. Later on, Alex, who is still alive discovers his girlfriends deeds and is unsure if he should stay with her or not. His fear gets worse when he find Selma bashing one of the Serbs head in with a rock, thing he could not do himself.I believe the ending is Selma´s reality. She is the blurry woman responsible for the bomb at the end (the one carrying the weapon), a terrorist. My guess and interpretation is that the beginning of the movie is something completely made up by her, living again her childhood traumas during the war. I am unsure if at the end of the film they already knew each other or not. It seems not, probably his lack of fear of her and his compassionate approach makes her think of him as her "guardian angel". And that leaves all the scenes in the forest with him being her boyfriend as her internal battle between good and evil. Between Alex (guardian angel) her other self (the alien like demon in the forest) and her fear of her past and the war (The Serbians).The ending is a little confusing, there are several theories out there that can explain the final scene. For me, it made sense that all the forest scenes is in her mind is her internal battle. She is fighting against her past, fighting between whats good and wrong and against her fear and trauma of living such terrible things in her youth.

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james_tiberius-608-779418

Reflection of the deep hole war drills in a persons psych and the darkness of ignorance. Not a bad movie, just something you just watch once and leaves you with enough to digest. Fully comprehensible movie for logical and rational thinking people

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mxsuba26

Selma, a Bosnian 20 - something who lived through the 90s war (and racked with PTSD) goes with her German boyfriend on a pleasant road trip through the same Bosnian woods where her parents were murdered by the Serbs during the ethnic cleansing and which is also littered with landmines from the war. That makes perfect sense. Of course German boy, (a typical weak male character) drives their SUV into a ditch and breaks the axle trying to get it out. Now they are stuck. Then things go downhill from there. They run into a pair of older Serb guys, the enemy in the war. These two guys are living together in a cave with just their AK 47 and some schnapps. Why? Is this a Serbian bromance? Selma is raped by one of the Serbs after her German BFF disappeared into the woods (he does this several times during the movie) . The plot gets worse from there. Alien appearances, flashbacks, dream sequence, more violence, etc. The ending makes no sense whatsoever. Pass on this one.

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nycscott1

My title says it all ! They use dream sequences to cover up for bad and lazy writing this is just more junk from Spain that was an absolute waste of my time ! I only feel bad that the dog died :( engine else who cares and maybe the writer and director should have also stepped on a mine !

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