‘Quo Vadis Aida’ Director Jasmila Zbanic Exposes the Bureaucracy of War From a Female Perspective (Video)
Also Read: 'El Olvido Que Seremos' Shows Off the Other Side of Colombia, Star Javier Cámara SaysA lot of the brutality and atrocities in “Quo Vadis Aida” happen off-screen, and that is by design, as Zbanic and her cinematographer decided to portray the banality of the conflict instead of portraying gratuitous violence.Wanting to convey the “banality of evil,” as political theorist Hannah Arendt put it, Zbanic and her camerawoman Christine Myer decided they would “always have perspective of human beings and always show what is not spectacular.” She elaborated, “We didn’t want to give pleasure of watching violence or the brutality.