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The Last Serb in Croatia (
Posljednji Srbin u Hrvatskoj, 2019, Croatia/Serbia), is a mordant summary of the last 30 years during which Croatia declared independence from the imploding Yugoslavia, brutally squashed an unwise Serb rebellion, underwent a neoliberal political and economic reform, and joined NATO and EU. The film ridicules chauvinism through irony and sarcasm, by contrasting exaggerated feelings of ethnic pride with vices, stereotypes, and shortcomings, to expose the contradictions inherent in the notions of ethnic purity. Ličina’s satire is hyperbolic to the point of absurdity, but never obscures his lucid social commentary. He makes sure the soul-crushing effects of social ills are easily inferred even when the characters are drenched in zombie blood and guts and dialogue steeped in dark humour (the homophobic stigma understood to have delayed the long overdue declaration of love between two paramedics as one of them is about to “turn,” to name one example). Mo