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The film was sponsored by [[Serbian diaspora]] community organizations, the [[Centre for Research on Globalization]], and private individuals amongst others.<ref name="politika"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Weight of Chains – Sponsors|url=http://www.weightofchains.ca/1/#sponsors|publisher=Malagurski Cinema|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102211341/http://www.weightofchains.com/sponsors.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 2, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Okovi raspada bivše Jugoslavije">[http://www.vesti-online.com/Dijaspora/drzava/Kanada/Vesti/127741/Okovi-raspada-bivse-Jugoslavije Okovi raspada bivše Jugoslavije] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141106004305/http://www.vesti-online.com/Dijaspora/drzava/Kanada/Vesti/127741/Okovi-raspada-bivse-Jugoslavije |date=November 6, 2014 }} Vesti, April 1, 2011</ref> | The film was sponsored by [[Serbian diaspora]] community organizations, the [[Centre for Research on Globalization]], and private individuals amongst others.<ref name="politika"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Weight of Chains – Sponsors|url=http://www.weightofchains.ca/1/#sponsors|publisher=Malagurski Cinema|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102211341/http://www.weightofchains.com/sponsors.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 2, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Okovi raspada bivše Jugoslavije">[http://www.vesti-online.com/Dijaspora/drzava/Kanada/Vesti/127741/Okovi-raspada-bivse-Jugoslavije Okovi raspada bivše Jugoslavije] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141106004305/http://www.vesti-online.com/Dijaspora/drzava/Kanada/Vesti/127741/Okovi-raspada-bivse-Jugoslavije |date=November 6, 2014 }} Vesti, April 1, 2011</ref> | ||
The film uses re-compiled archival footage extensively,<ref name="nspm">{{cite web | url=http://www.nspm.rs/kulturna-politika/boris-malagurski-medju-nama-ili-gde-se-denu-184-milijarde-ju-eura.html?alphabet=l | title=Boris Malagurski među nama | publisher=[[Nova srpska politička misao|NSPM]] | accessdate=2 October 2014 | archive-date=October 6, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006070705/http://www.nspm.rs/kulturna-politika/boris-malagurski-medju-nama-ili-gde-se-denu-184-milijarde-ju-eura.html?alphabet=l | url-status=live }}</ref> which was provided at no cost by [[Radio Television Serbia]].<ref name="MR Elich">{{cite web | url= | The film uses re-compiled archival footage extensively,<ref name="nspm">{{cite web | url=http://www.nspm.rs/kulturna-politika/boris-malagurski-medju-nama-ili-gde-se-denu-184-milijarde-ju-eura.html?alphabet=l | title=Boris Malagurski među nama | publisher=[[Nova srpska politička misao|NSPM]] | accessdate=2 October 2014 | archive-date=October 6, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006070705/http://www.nspm.rs/kulturna-politika/boris-malagurski-medju-nama-ili-gde-se-denu-184-milijarde-ju-eura.html?alphabet=l | url-status=live }}</ref> which was provided at no cost by [[Radio Television Serbia]].<ref name="MR Elich">{{cite web | url=https://mronline.org/2011/07/28/entangled-in-neocolonialism-the-weight-of-chains/ | title=Entangled in Neocolonialism | publisher=Monthly Review | work=Interview with Gregory Elich (interviewee in the film) | access-date=11 September 2014 | archive-date=September 16, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140916163240/http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/elich280711.html | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
==Synopsis== | ==Synopsis== | ||
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[[Konstantin Kilibarda]], writing for the blog [[Politics, Respun]], described the film as a "misguided attempt to give an alternative account of the wars in the former Yugoslavia", and that the film maker "attempts to minimize, deflect and distort the well established role of Serbian leaders in the former Yugoslavia in pursuing a militant nationalist program since the late 1980s, that sought to reclaim Kosovo through the imposition of martial law, as well as create 'ethnically compact' territories that would link Serbs in Serbia with Serbian minorities in Bosnia and Croatia".<ref name="Kilibarda">{{cite web | url=http://politicsrespun.org/2012/02/undermining-solidarity-in-the-balkans-reviewing-boris-malagurskis-the-weight-of-chains/ | title=Reviewing The Weight of Chains - Konstantin Kilibarda | work=Politics, Re-Spun | date=November 30, 2001 | accessdate=3 September 2014 | archive-date=September 22, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922222630/http://politicsrespun.org/2012/02/undermining-solidarity-in-the-balkans-reviewing-boris-malagurskis-the-weight-of-chains/ | url-status=live }}</ref> | [[Konstantin Kilibarda]], writing for the blog [[Politics, Respun]], described the film as a "misguided attempt to give an alternative account of the wars in the former Yugoslavia", and that the film maker "attempts to minimize, deflect and distort the well established role of Serbian leaders in the former Yugoslavia in pursuing a militant nationalist program since the late 1980s, that sought to reclaim Kosovo through the imposition of martial law, as well as create 'ethnically compact' territories that would link Serbs in Serbia with Serbian minorities in Bosnia and Croatia".<ref name="Kilibarda">{{cite web | url=http://politicsrespun.org/2012/02/undermining-solidarity-in-the-balkans-reviewing-boris-malagurskis-the-weight-of-chains/ | title=Reviewing The Weight of Chains - Konstantin Kilibarda | work=Politics, Re-Spun | date=November 30, 2001 | accessdate=3 September 2014 | archive-date=September 22, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922222630/http://politicsrespun.org/2012/02/undermining-solidarity-in-the-balkans-reviewing-boris-malagurskis-the-weight-of-chains/ | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
Historian | Historian Predrag Marković, in a discussion at [[Singidunum University]], said that the film talks with a language understandable to young Westerners, and that "the author, with a fine irony, distances himself in regards to the local figures and presents a very complex problem, evading self-justification that many domestic directors are prone to."<ref name="Markovic">{{cite web | url=http://mediacentar.fmk.singidunum.ac.rs/februar-2012/teina-lanaca | title=''Težina lanaca'' Screening at FMK | publisher=mediacentar fmk singidunum ac rs | date=27 February 2012 | accessdate=20 November 2014 | author=Gašić, Dimitrije | archive-date=November 29, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129120808/http://mediacentar.fmk.singidunum.ac.rs/februar-2012/teina-lanaca | url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
[[Tristan Miller]], writing in the U.K.'s ''[[Socialist Standard]]'', wrote "the film’s flimsier claims and arguments can be explained as the work of a naïve but well-meaning patriot, but others cannot be so innocently excused" ... "for all the effort he spends decrying the dishonest propagandising which fuelled the Yugoslavian implosion, he certainly has no qualms employing many of the same tricks when it suits his own agenda". Concluding, "he has a very low estimation of the intelligence of his audience".<ref name="Miller review"/> | [[Tristan Miller]], writing in the U.K.'s ''[[Socialist Standard]]'', wrote "the film’s flimsier claims and arguments can be explained as the work of a naïve but well-meaning patriot, but others cannot be so innocently excused" ... "for all the effort he spends decrying the dishonest propagandising which fuelled the Yugoslavian implosion, he certainly has no qualms employing many of the same tricks when it suits his own agenda". Concluding, "he has a very low estimation of the intelligence of his audience".<ref name="Miller review"/> | ||
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Serbian film critic [[Vladan Petković]] described the film as "pro-Serbian conspiracy theorist propaganda". According to Petković, "the film is promoted as having been made in [[Michael Moore]]'s style, but it totally lacks Moore’s characteristic qualities. Instead Malagurski interviews journalists, politicians, ex-ambassadors and historians, who all promote the same one-sided story of Serbia as a victim of Western capitalist imperialism".<ref name="nytid">{{cite news |last=Gjerstad |first=Nils |date=20 May 2011 |title=Med skulderen til veggen |work=[[Ny Tid]] | pages= 48–49 }}</ref> | Serbian film critic [[Vladan Petković]] described the film as "pro-Serbian conspiracy theorist propaganda". According to Petković, "the film is promoted as having been made in [[Michael Moore]]'s style, but it totally lacks Moore’s characteristic qualities. Instead Malagurski interviews journalists, politicians, ex-ambassadors and historians, who all promote the same one-sided story of Serbia as a victim of Western capitalist imperialism".<ref name="nytid">{{cite news |last=Gjerstad |first=Nils |date=20 May 2011 |title=Med skulderen til veggen |work=[[Ny Tid]] | pages= 48–49 }}</ref> | ||
[[Amir Telibećirović]] of [[Tačno.net]], in his review of the film, described it as: "new model of indoctrination based on the philosophy of [[Slobodan Milošević]] and the [[Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts]], through beautified propaganda, lies and manipulation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tacno.net/kultura/simpaticni-fasizam-i-duhovite-lazi-borisa-malagurskog/|title=Simpatični fašizam i duhovite laži Borisa Malagurskog {{!}} Tacno.net|website=www.tacno.net|date=August 30, 2017 |language=hr-HR|access-date=2018-04-24|archive-date=April 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423170759/http://www.tacno.net/kultura/simpaticni-fasizam-i-duhovite-lazi-borisa-malagurskog/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||