Movie #3408 ........................"The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent" (theatre)

 Movie #3408 "The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent" (theatre)  The 5th and last oscar-nominated live action film of 2025 is this one.  It starts immediately on a train with no backstory on any of the people we will spend time with in the film --- the lead guy has a family but he never interacts with them --- he spends time looking out the window at the military who have stopped the train and they are looking for "ID" --- tenseness goes up a notch when he is telling the guy sitting across from him not to worry , just to sow his ID -- the guy says, he doesn't have one -- uh oh.  They are taking those people off the train.  The title guy is just that --- the man who stands up to them --- no background, no details except what he tells the military -- that they have no right to do this --- it seems everyone feels that way --- that no one has the right to make all thee people fear for their lives --- to be removed from a train and never seen again.  But no one else, of all these people, agree with this man out loud ---- And therein, lies the problem.  If they all did speak up , would this  in humane removal of people continue?  Once again, the story doesn't have a complete ending --- just a hold on the main characters face as the train moves on.....I'd give it a 3.5.  The tenseness was good, but a little bit more information? For example,   Did the guy with no ID do something terribly wrong ?  But even if he did, do these military men have the right to pull him from the train?  More importantly, if they are just looking for him, why go after everyone else? 

"THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT"      2024      13 mins

1993 Fosnia and Herzegovina.  A passenger train is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation.  As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man out of 500 passengers dares to stand up to them.

Director:  Nebojsa Slijepcevic

Writer:  same as above

Actors:  Dragan Micanovic, Goran Bogdan